Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Small Tasks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rkEOdnWh-c

Here is a video that Coach Mike Ricci shared with the CU Triathlon Team. This video really struck a chord in me. Success is not based solely off of one drastic event, performance, or win. Success is composed of many small tasks. Success takes consistent effort. That means every day you dedicate yourself to achieving your next goal, but you enjoy the challenge of doing so. Success is taken one step at a time. Success is made of small goals. Success is mental. It's who wants it the most that prevails.It's who is willing to hurt the most. It's who goes out and trains on their own when no one is watching. Success is a quiet process, where you find love in the simple tasks each day. Success is a journey, and you've got to enjoy the process and accept whatever challenges might fall in front of you. For me I don't call "success" the result of winning a race or beating a competitor. Success is personal fulfillment for me. Success is inspiration. I feel inspired, therefore I feel successful. This is what motivates me every day. What is your motivation? 


"If you got a talent and you got a gift and you wanna do respect to that gift by cultivating it. Then you make a decision to cultivate it. And you make a decision to do what you need to do to push that out there. Success is like a quiet daily set of tasks. Real small, real real small. It's like that quiet walk to the gym, like footsteps, some empty ass gym late at night. Success for me is like watching my videos of my speaking and seeing were I can work on it, over and over and over. Or as I sit there studying other great people and then comparing it with what I'm doing and looking at, over and over and over. It's very quiet. You gotta just be consistent. You gotta have that consistent thing. And you gotta cultivate a love for the process. You gotta love the process. And you gotta make a decision to love the process. The question though is about motivation. Motivation is an art. And to get the motivation to play at that level with the big boys, you go deep. Are you getting that sense? You go deep. Now when you're hearing all this stuff I'm saying, did I come up with that over night? No. That's from decades of motivation. And I can talk longer. I can talk all day about where it comes from. I can talk about my belief about the world, where I think the world is going. I can talk about the fact that I have an internal locus of control and believe that I can create the circumstances that I want and I don't believe that I have no affect. And these are all things that have crossed my mind from years and years and years of having to do little, menial tasks, from having to take huge risks, from having to be broke and suffer, from having to be humiliated 'cause no one wants you to succeed. So if you have a dream, if you have a dream, okay, and it's worth it to you, because you're some one who is inspired by that dream, you can choose to go to that level." - Owen Cook 



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