After my first year, I was facing the difficult question of how to become more successful. I wanted to become the go-to guy, but had no idea how to become that. If I was to become the star I had always wanted to be, I needed to figure it out.
I needed to become far more serious about becoming the star player, or I could simply be satisfied with being a role player on the team.
All these years later and I still wonder how far I could have gone if I had worked harder. What if I had tried everything I could to make progress? What if I knew then what I know now…
Fortunately for you and I, my time in college did not go to a complete waste. I became certified as a professional physical fitness coach, and managed to coach the local kids basketball team in my spare time when I wasn’t training professionally. I had been the coach of our basketball team for 7 years, and a basketball coach for kids 5 years before that.
I have learned a lot about how to train people to become better athletes. I see the success in my players. Some of them have gone all the way.
You have the opportunity right now. You can learn from my mistakes. The time is right now for you to dedicate yourself to becoming the best player you can, and reach your ultimate goals.
It does still bother me that I wasted my opportunity. Maybe I could have been the one that had meetings with pro teams before draft day. But, instead of beating myself up over it, I made the best of it.
I finally did figure out that dedicating myself to my career is a key to success. I have poured over hundreds of athletic journals researching player development. My… Read more…
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