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September 30, 2017
what we choose to focus our thoughts and actio...
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“Once my players understood the power of focusing on what they could control right at this very moment, they learned to love the process of giving their best,”
“They learned to love the process of practicing hard.
They learned to love the process of getting b...
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They learned to love the process of putting the team’s intere...
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They learned to love the process of competing with themselves instead of compari...
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“It was the process we f...
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Why? Because we have total control ove...
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“the process.”
“Every coach, leader, teacher, student, entrepreneur, manager, and parent should embrace this philosophy.
“When you make a commitment to only focusing on the things you have total control over—the effort you give, the attitude you carry, and the process of improving yourself in the present moment—when you focus on only those things and let the results take care of themselves, it’s been my experience that results beyond your wildest dreams tend to follow.”
apply this philosophy to your team and your family.
when people get so engrossed in the things they have no control over, it negatively effects the things they do have control over.
Focus everything you’ve got on what you can control:
your effort and attitude in the present moment.”
I’d been spending most of my time worrying about things that were completely out of my control.
“Success is not something others can give you,”
“True success can only be attained by knowing you did your very best to become the best you’re capable of becoming.
I focus on only the things I have
total control over: MY EFFORT AND MY ATTITUDE.
my effort and my attitude in the pr...
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I will not lose myself in the past or worry about the future. I will ...
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I turned my focus to the day ahead,
Our focus needs to be on doing the things that will lead us to winning,
want the focus of every man in this room to be on only the things you can control: your effort and your attitude in the present moment.”
“Maximum effort, baby, maximum effort.”
“Nothing but your absolute best.”
“Effort and attitude, effort an...
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every time they did, I told myself: I focus on only the things I have total control over.
effort and attitude until the worry subsided.
crowd size, another factor I could not control,
Why harp on the past, something we had no control over?
“Effort and attitude, Jimmy. Effort and attitude. That’s all you can control.”
If we’re judging ourselves on only what we can control—our effort and our attitude—then
focusing on only what we could control.
stay focused.”
“You sure your unhappiness is justified by your problems and not the cause of them?
why you think you’re entitled to be so upset and bitter about it.”
he also told me he wasn’t bitter.
He was an optimist and he lived to be 98.
“Was my dream easy? Of course not.
‘There is something better than this. But you can’t find it here. You’re going to have to go out and get it.’
He made me realize that the world wasn’t going to hand me the life I wanted to live.
“Are you doing what you want to be doing with your life? Are you doing what you love?”
You can’t blame anything outside of you for taking away your joy. Only you can take the joy out of your life.
If my grandfather could stay optimistic after everything he went through, what excuse do any of us have?
stop letting stuff out there take the joy out of your life.
Passion and optimism, these are things you have to give yourself. Nobody ...
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big difference between ignoring those things and dwelling on them,”
there’s negative stuff out there, always will be.
