Diving Into Understanding Your Motivation and Focus

~Intention with no limitations. An objective: effort aimed in a direction. 

What life do I want to live?

What do I repeatedly do?

~No end point because it can skew our decision making when focused on a singular event, task, outcome. It can also create a limitation to where you could go and where the end point is.

*Injury prevention

*Limiting things you can achieve

* Athlete development pace

* Results in performances

Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist for Metallica, he never had the goal of winning eight Grammys. He never had the goal of selling 125 million records, never had the goal of being a rock star. He simply said, and I quote, "I just want to play my guitar a little bit better every day."  See, because with that, there is no end. 

~Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. Here's your recipe."

~Make a list of what you like to do. Then sprinkle is the 1% of what you need to do:

~List your baseline rules:

~Repeatable— progressive— Cumulative—Specific to the athlete 99%

1% Specific to the event.

~What I like to do, Make a list:

 Is it hard for me or is it where I shine? ( driven by challenge or feeling like it’s a strength or something else )

Does it help or hinder my goals?

If it’s repeated as a habit/ routine how will it add up?

What role does it play in the big picture?

~Progressive work capacity. What did you do as a child and how did that work capacity grow or set you up for where you are now.

~ ”Arguably the most important skill is controlling your attention. This goes beyond merely avoiding distractions. The deeper skill is finding the highest and best use for your time, given what is important to you. More than anything else, controlling your attention is about being able to figure out what you should be working on and identifying what truly moves the needle.” ~ James Clear

Chef Wylie Dufresne on the value of simplicity:

"Jean-Georges Vongerichten showed me the value in taking away, taking things off of a plate. He always talked about two, three, four elements on a plate. That's it. The more you put on the plate, the easier it is to hide. The more you take away, there's nowhere to hide—it has to be good."