Becoming number 1

"What it takes to be number one"

Commitment: Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time.

Truth: truth is knowing that your character is shaped by your everyday choices.
Excellence: excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed, with all of ones might, with every bit of effort. Having the spirit and the will to excel, the will to win, these are the things that endure.

Results: winning is not everything, but making the effort to win is.

Passion: there is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Habit: the difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Mental toughness: you have to be tough mentally to deal with things as they come. Life isn't fair deal with it. You may not be responsible for being knocked down, but its your responsibility to get up every time you fall.

Discipline: This is the difference between people, you need to be willing to sacrifice and pay the price.

Originally published 1/4/2015 7:12AM