Why it’s so important to Take Action
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🏀 #1 - Best thing we learned - 📖
🏀 #2 - Best thing we watched - 🎥
🏀 #3 - Best thing we heard - 🎧
What Matters Most 📖
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In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").
After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.
As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.
Takeaway ☝️:
"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once said.
Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.
One of our favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.
Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.
"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."
It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen
Takeaway ✌️:
Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.
“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”
Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).
“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It is predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."
(The Great Bill Oppenheimer)
BREAKDOWN 🎥
🔥 MUST ADD ACTION 🔥
Warriors Bilbao Variations. Great one to have in the book for ATO's & late game buckets.
Dustin tried to run this in his men's league, spoiler... didn't go well lol.
Slappin’ Glass 🎧
Slappin' Glass is a great podcast and has incredible guests. This episode is with 4x DIl National Champion Head Coach of NW Missouri St., Ben McCollum.
The trio explores a wide array of topics including Coach McCollum's thoughts on playing at a slower and more methodical pace, the art of changing PR screening angles and locations, and talk stats that matter and efficient 5 v. 5 segments during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"
Take Action ⬇️👇
Who you are today is a direct result of the actions you took one year ago.
Who you will be in one year is a direct result of the actions you take today.
Those who understand this operate on another level.
Take action & focus on what’s really important to you in life!