What has “doing” ever gotten you?
I know that’s deep
Let’s start with an excerpt from “It’s All About YOU” (an early ebook I put out)
Okay, I’ll get serious. Share this line down with your players, they will benefit from this one.
The One Principle Principle
Why having one principle, will bias you towards doing more:
“Doing more” is just being biased towards action that impacts. It’s choosing the intentional option that has a positive effect.
Creating your future actively vs. becoming consumed by autopilot or undisciplined action.
The following tweets highlight this idea.
The Brain Always Wins
We’re all after dopamine. You, me, your players… Even your dog.
We just need to get that next hit… Of dopamine.
How does this connect to the above idea with Musk and Bezos?
Simple.
If you have one guiding principle based on your mission, you’ll be biased more toward action and less towards consumption.
I’ll give you an example for your players.
Your Principle is your Beacon
2 different players on the same team of equal talent and mindset. Maybe they are twin brothers that don’t live at the same billet house so each other’s presence can’t influence them.
Player A lives by the above principle:
Does this activity/event get me closer to playing at my dream school?
Player B is just living life on autopilot… Who can blame him he’s only 18, right?
Wrong.
Because when Player A shuts his phone off at noon on gameday because nothing is more important than what he is about to go do for his mission.
Player B is Snapchatting and texting all the way into the locker room at 5pm and he might pull his phone out in between periods to “see what’s up.”
When Player A has a hard and fast rule to put his phone on airplane mode at 9pm the day before the game to ensure he doesn’t stay up texting Tinder matches and instead gets a great night of sleep, he’s living by his principle.
Player B stays up until 2am because “she’s just so fun to text.”
Player A is positively compounding actions over time.
Player B is also compounding… Just in the wrong direction.
Does what I’m about to do get me closer to where I want to go?
If yes, I do it every time.
If no, I do not engage.
Your principle is your beacon, without it… You’re just lost.