THE MINDSET TO WIN
Winning is not about the trophy and the accolades. It's about the grind. It's about the obstacles, it's about the challenges, it's about the pain. The reason I know so much about winning is because I've had to deal with so much losing. Everybody wants to win, but in order to know how to win, you gotta know how to lose because you're gonna lose more than you're gonna win. But what do you gain from it? You've trained some of the greatest of the great Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, Duane Wade.
So you know something about winning. You know something about sustained winning. Over time, Your mind has to immediately shift back because now you felt the tasted something that you can only get through winning. Are you willing to do it again? And that was one of Kobe's favorite words when it related to winning. He says, you have to be obsessed with whatever your win is. Be all in Three greatest lessons I learned from Michael.
Competing accountability and then winning at all levels. Winning at all levels. What does that mean? You just don't win in one arena. You win in your sports, you win in business, you win in your personal life. Other people win because you win. It isn't just about you. It's about being able to pull the team and show them what it feels like to win. And this isn't about playing basketball like Michael Jordan did, like the link. Great. Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade. This is about having the mindset to winning.
When you fail, your feelings give you excuses. Your mind makes you more resilient. You look at when Kobe, his first playoff series, he had this horrible game, but he shot like four or five straight air balls. Now he coulda came back next year and said, I gotta prove everybody this said man, you're too young. Why'd you take, oh, he was just like, you know what? That's on me. I have to own that moment.
Now I gotta prove to myself I can overcome this because now everybody else is doubting me. But I can't doubt myself. Everybody told mj, don't go to North Carolina, you'll never play. You shouldn't be here. And Michael went out and he said, I don't need to prove to coach. I don't need to prove to buzz. I need to prove to myself that I belong here. I always say you can have fear, but you can't have doubt. Opportunity.
You have an opportunity of a lifetime. When you understand you have an opportunity, you ju you play a little different. When I dropped outta high school and I started going to this church and let me speak, I picked up the mic. I was 16 years old. I picked up the mic. I'm not gonna say it was the best feature I ever did, but when I picked up that mic and got off that stage, I was like, yep, I can do it. So here what I'm saying, opportunity.
I got an opportunity. You got an opportunity. So here's the deal. When you have an opportunity, why would you give 80%? Why would you give 80%, 70%? Why wouldn't you always give 120%? It's Sports is basketball. Why wouldn't you give 120%? You can't dictate if the ball going to always go in. You can't dictate what kind of game you going to have. You can't dictate how your body is going to respond to moving around. But you can dictate your what. You can dictate your good. You can dictate your, you can always give 120% effort.
And every day I want you to wake up and not just go, I'm sweet like that. I want you to go. I'm not just going with skills. There's A one type of dude who feel like because he's gifted, that it's just an automatic role for him. And lemme tell y'all something, you are gifted, but you better humble yourself. You gotta understand that pride come before fall. You may get it, but right now, what? Oh, I can't hear y'all. You may get it, but right now what? You don't have it.
That's not what gets you in the league. Not with what you were born with. You got skill and you got will, you got skill and you got will two total different things. You were born with certain things, but to get to the next level and not just get to the next level, to stay at the next level, you gotta have will. So when you pray, you have to compete. I'm a high school dropout. My daddy wasn't in my life, but I found out I had a gift.
Then I found out your gift shall make room for you. And I'm like, you mean to tell me if I perfect this, I can eat and my kids can eat and my kids kids can eat from today on you play whatever your best game is. You play that level every single time. I know it's cold. But are you Courageous enough to step in the uncharted territory, beating on your craft day and night, I need you to disappear for the next 30 days.
What does that look like? 720 hours dedicated to the future Where focus goes, energy flows. The problem is you put too much energy into Netflix, you put too much energy into distractions. You put too much energy into entertainment. You put too much energy into things that are not feeding your purpose and destiny.
Can you walk away from everything life has knocked you to the ground? You have survived the greatest traumas of your life? How tired are you of where you are right now? How bad do you want to get to that next level? What are you willing to do? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to give up? Who are you willing to let go to get where it is that you wanna be? See, everybody wants to be successful.
Everybody wants to climb mountains. Everybody wants to be praised and celebrated, but nobody wants to sacrifice. Nobody wants to put in the work. Nobody wants to let go of every single distraction. Can you learn how to say no to what's hurting you? No to what's stopping you? No, to the people that don't believe in you. The fakes and the phonies and the people that keep saying that.
