The statistics on becoming a professional athlete are humbling. According to data obtained from the NCAA by Lynn O’Shaughnessy of CBS in her article The Odds of Playing College Sports, roughly .08% of high school football players (or 8 in 10,000) will be drafted to play in the NFL. The chances are longer in the NBA and slightly better for the NHL and MLB. The point being, it is a long shot for any athlete to play at the professional level. To get there requires a separation from the competition and from those around you that also have the same stated goals. So how do you do that?
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time.” –Vince Lombardi
As an example, we recently started working with an NFL player who was drafted highly and is currently in a contract year. He often trains early in the morning – as early as 6am (and he lives over 30 minutes away from our facility). For the time he has been with us, he has never been less than 10 minutes EARLY to a session. That is the difference – the edge. The best ones make getting to that next level a priority to the point that nothing else will get in the way. This very morning he made the comment, “I really didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning – I didn’t sleep very well last night, but I made a decision that I wanted this more.” That’s the level of dedication, consistency, and discipline it takes to get there. You have to be willing to do what it takes every time, not just when it’s convenient or comfortable, but day in and day out, every time.

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