“MJ never took a day off.
Not one. He was always connected to spirit, though he didn’t need to go to church to accomplish that. Spirit was already inside him. He had an attitude and philosophy about life that saw him as earning everything. He wasn’t asking anybody to give him anything. He practiced with the same level of intensity and competitive fire with which he played. He was the best player in the league, maybe the greatest of all time. But he was always working. We can all learn from that kind of relentless drive and consistency of effort about the nature of pure performance: it comes with total commitment and grueling work. Even at MJ’s level: no struggle, no swag.
MJ practiced the way he played because it all mattered equally to him. When he took the court, opponents knew they were in trouble. He was going to be a problem. It didn’t matter who he was up against. There was nothing casual about him. That’s just the way he was.”
How do we unlock this potential within all of us?
Via a “relentless drive and consistency of effort” with “total commitment and grueling work.”
Other “ExtraOrdinary” folks who would agree, Michael Phelps & Bob Bowman, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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