Kobe Bryant once said this:
"... So if you get up at 10 in the morning, train at 12. Train for 2 hours, 12-2, you have to let your body recover. You get back out, you train. You start training at 6, train from 6-8 and now you go home, you shower, you eat dinner, you go to bed, you wake up and you do it again.
Those are two sessions. Now imagine, you wake up at 3 and you train at 4, go 4-6, come home breakfast, relax. Now you back at it again, 9-11, you relax and now all of a sudden you back at it again, 2-4. Now you back at it again, 7-9/ Look how much more training I have done by simply starting at 4. So now you do that as the years go on the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers, just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger. By year 5 or 6, it doesn't matter what kind of work they're doing in summer, they're never gonna catchup. ..."
This isn’t about advocating for the grind. This isn’t about encouraging you to get up early (although I generally think it’s a great practice to do so). I’m sharing this so we can get curious about WHY Kobe was able to voluntarily practice in this way.
When we passionately get into something, we engage with it in a way that others can view as nonsensical or crazy. To me, my wife’s Pilates schedule is pretty insane. To my wife, my coaching calendar is too much. What allows us to individually live like this?
Whatever that “what” is, that is what I am interested in cultivating with you, the reader. You don’t have to play basketball. You don’t have to be a life coach or a Buddhist practitioner. But I do want you to engage with life in the way that Kobe did.
What do you think that motivating factor is?
The Middle Way 4 week training program for content creators is coming up next week. There are only a few days to sign up before we get started, and this is just the right time to commit to that registration.
Program Details
- Program Period: September 15 - October 12
- Program Format: ~2 live Zoom calls every week (one for teaching session and one for Q&A/Co-working); weekday community support from Billy and Michelle
- Session Replays: Call recordings will be available within 24 hours
- Virtual Space: Live calls via Zoom and support in Discord community
- Program Fee: $555 USD
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Billy Seol
July Life Coach
julylifecoach.com
