"Until one is committed..."

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness… that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meeting and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way..” W.H. Murray

I like this quote because it describes the immeasurable power of deciding and committing.. The power of knowing the cost and going all in. In basketball you start by learning the game and just having fun. This is how it should start; you don’t want pressure when your first learning a game and when you are so young. Then as you get closer to high school and the competition starts to get better there comes a time when you have to decide… am I going to fully commit? Because if you only kind of want to make the team, its a lot harder to wake up early to practice, or easier to skip the optional summer workout with the team, or easier to quit the team when your on the bench.

But if you really commit and say this year I am going to do everything I can to make the team and become the best player I can be than all sorts of avenues open up that you never thought possible.

You get up early and train everyday. Your body is stronger and this makes your mind clearer. Your friends notice and and your confidence improves; people want to know what your doing because your confidence from the work has made you charismatic. Your eating healthier because your training hard and know that diet matters so your physique has improved. The track coach notices and asks you to join the team later in the year. You have new friends who you work out with you introduce to a lot of cool new people who are also high achievers. Your working with trainers and online programs that makes actual practice with the team or PE seem laughable. The discipline to run at practice or to do a homework assignment feels easy because you’ve done way harder stuff all the time on your own. All of these amazing benefits come because you decided to go all in… it almost doesn’t matter if you actually achieve the goal or not… becoming the best version of yourself because you committed is everything. Science says this is actually what makes us feel happy and content. Not the goal but the goal that makes us the best version of ourselves. Paradoxically when your disciplined and go all in for a goal this gives you so many choice later in life because of the skills and confidence you learn along the way.

So is training hard or boring? Maybe it’s time to decide to go ALL IN. Decide to DECIDE. Lets gooooooooooooooooooo!