Hammer Hands 5 Traits of Greatness
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5 Traits of Greatness
- Focus
Baseball needs to be a focus in your life if you want to become good enough to make it to the next level. I used to think that I could “focus” on multiple things at once. But the reality is this: to be great at something it needs to be your main focus and you need to eliminate other distractions. The most crucial part about being focused on something is in fact, eliminating other distractions from your life. In today’s world it’s harder than ever to be truly focused on something. Think about all the distractions you have on that phone you are probably using to read this. I would say about 90% of people don’t even know how to focus. The key skill you will need to constantly develop is to recognize all the BS from your everyday life. Monitor yourself on the time you spend on the BS vs Accomplishing your goals.
- Intent
Intent is having a dedication and urgency to do what needs to be done. Intent feeds off of focus. The best of the best have intent in everything they do. Every rep in the weight room, every throw of their catch play, every swing of the bat. Intent is required to have the best reps possible to increase your skill level the quickest. The opposite of intent is doing reps lazy and unfocused. This is the “normal” for most players. Having intent takes focus and determination to keep it as you’re working. Otherwise it slips away into the norm of how everybody else does it. Unless you are a major leaguer, you do NOT want to be like everybody else around you.
- Resilience
I don’t care who you are or how good you are. You’re going to reach a point where you get knocked down. In baseball, you need to be able to bounce back quickly and move on. The best players that I’ve ever come across have a “screw you” attitude. They don’t necessarily say it to everyone or everything but let’s just say they don’t run from challenges. Some players experience more hardships than others, but if you’re going to make it to the next level, you will come across them at some point. As long as you understand that it happens to everyone. Everyone fails, it's part of the game. You can’t win every at-bat or every game in baseball. You need to be able to bounce back, pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get after it right away. Remember, your future is not determined with what happens to you. Your future is how you handle it.
- Play the Long Game
Decisions you make today will not only affect your life tomorrow, but they will add up and really affect your life 5, 10 years from now. The best of the best play the long game. They’re able and willing to put up with failure after failure for months. The best know that over a long enough time frame, if they do the right things consistently, they will win in the end. Most people give up before they even get to the point where they’re able to realize their goals. Don’t give up. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER Give Up! Buckle in for the long game and your skills and talent will start to grow and build up overtime. Just because you aren’t seeing results or you are not where you want to be right now or months down the road, that does not mean that it’s not going to work. It takes 10,000 hours of focused effort to become proficient in anything. One of my favorite movies of all time said it best, “the night is darkest just before dawn” -The Dark Knight. A lot of times people want results now and they don’t get them now. They give up. That is why YOU must play the long game. Keep going and know if you do the right things day after day, you will win. You will become a player so great, you feel like you are dreaming.
- Transform. Do NOT conform.
The average person in this country right now is obese, lazy, unmotivated, unhappy, divorced, drinks or takes drugs, plays video games or watches TV in their free time. If you want to go down that road in life, then go ahead and conform to the crowd. Yes, that includes everything that the crowd thinks is cool or says you should be doing. The best of the best transform. They have values and principles that they have in their own life and they draw a line in the sand and are willing to say no. If you want to be exceptional, then you must be an exception to the norm. You work harder. You spend way less time on social media and watching videos on your phone. You are the weirdo that actually takes action. Keep being the weirdo. In fact, if you are willing to transform from the norm and you are working hard to achieve your goals, other people will begin to follow you and other people that go about life in a similar way will seek you out. The law of attraction is real in the sense of you breaking away from the norm and being who you dream of being. Doing what you need to do to accomplish big dreams will send you through a lonely period of not fitting in. That’s normal. Do what the greats do and you will start to have a new normal form itself in your life.