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Article Written by Karl Mecklenburg
Former Denver Broncos
Six Time Pro Bowl player
Three time super bowl player

The lack of focus that stems from not believing one can achieve great things is a pitfall that stands squarely in the path of even the most talented people in the pursuit of remarkable performance.  An individual’s passion must be extravagant in order to dedicate them self to the preparation, self examination, and sacrifice that remarkable performance is born of.

I spent over a year of my life at Bronco training camp in a twelve year NFL career.  Those were the most physically, emotionally, and mentally challenging days of my life.  Dan Reeves would bring one hundred and ten NFL hopefuls to camp each year and every one of them had the physical tools, the raw talent to make the team.  At the end of camp the forty nine man roster would be set and sixty one physically capable players had been sent home.

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Article Written by Jeffrey Gitomer
A creative, on the edge, writer and speaker whose
expertise on sales, customer loyalty, and personal
development is world renowned.

It’s amazing how many emails I get from people, telling me that I can be a success, if I just do it their way, and pay them a bunch of money. The reason that these people succeed with “do it my way ideas,” is that most unsuccessful people don’t have the confidence to do it on their own, or they have no game plan to do it on their own, and figure, “Well, if that guy did it, maybe I can do it.” 

And the people who “pay for success” begin to reach for money based on greed, rather than earn money based on love.  And more often than not, they fail at the process, and of course blame the guy that sold them the formula, or the formula itself.

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Article Written by Peter Vidmar
Member of the US OLYMPIC Hall of Fame
1984 2 time Olympic Gold medalist
Silver medalist

How many times have you heard a parent or a coach or a teacher, say, “You’d better study twice as hard if you’re going to get better grades?”

   “You’d better train twice as hard if you want to be on this team.”
   “You’d better practice the piano twice as long if you want to be the best at the recital.”
   And so on.

The sentiment makes sense, but the math doesn’t. The fact of the matter is, most of the time, no matter how much we might want to, we simply cannot double any significant effort. It’s certainly not possible in the case of a world-class athlete. In my sport, any gymnast hoping to make the Olympics is going to be working out at least five hours a day. So if I’m going to double that amount of training, I have to train ten hours a day. Technically, that may be possible, but from a physical standpoint it makes no sense. It would be exhausting to the point of being counterproductive. My body would fall apart from the strain.

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