 Hey what's up coach welcome back to my channel and today I want to talk about what is hard work and how do you define that yourself. I remember when I was 18 years old I will never forget this moment this is something that has stuck with me and it's something I think about a lot I probably think about this more than I should but when I was 18 I remember my freshman year of playing college soccer we were doing this fitness drill and I remember I was just like super tired I was looking at all my teammates everybody was dead and our assistant coach he was this Scottish guy he was just this really tough coach but the toughest coach I've ever seen the toughest definitely the toughest coach I've ever had I remember we were all breathing huffing and puffing tired dead tired and he goes you think you're tired you think this is hard work he goes look that way and there was this part of there was like this facility that was being built out on our campus and he goes look at those guys he goes they've been here since five o'clock this morning working and it was these guys that were doing like masonry work they were doing some were doing roofing and they were working it was like this construction project I remember it was so hot outside and we'd only been in practice for like an hour at that point there were guys that were doing like cement work and there's this whole crew and these guys were like out there evidently he said all day and we were doing our practice around 5 p.m when it was really really hot and this was in uh Memphis Tennessee when this happened and I remember when he said that it made me feel like man like why am I complaining these guys I've been out here for 12 hours melting in the sun lifting like really heavy things and working like dogs and I'm out here with a dry fit on sweating and I remember when he said that that really stuck with me because I didn't know what hard work meant when I was 18 and I think that was probably the first time where I really saw like I'd worked really hard as a kid to be good at soccer but I never knew that level of work of just waking up early staying outside all day working until the job gets done and doing that day in day out every single day and that's what these guys were doing and I remember the next month I would always like look over there at the end of practice and I'd see these guys like they're just chipping away at the project they were out there all day and as I graduate when I graduated college I remember that very vividly because I would try to you know when I was starting my business I would I thought I would work hard and you know what I did work hard at the beginning but there was a whole new level of work that I could put in and I remember thinking about those guys that and you know in the middle of the summer they were working their tail off and that always made me remember that you know if I'm working hard helping kids that's like so easy compared to what other people do in in other jobs and you know if I don't want to do a video if I don't want to write a newsletter if I don't want to go message someone Instagram I always think about those guys and I think they showed up and they did the job no matter what no matter what the weather was like no matter how they're feeling they clocked in and they put in the work no matter what and by seeing that that taught me something that I really practice today which is consistency is it's it is doing the job no matter what doing the job no matter what and that doesn't mean I'm perfect with it but I always I always remember that and that stuck with me because now I know like there are different levels of work there there are people who claim to work hard there are people that do work hard and normally the ones who kind of work in silence those are the people that that you want to be around they're not on Instagram talking about how hard they work they're not showing off their work they they let their work do the talking and that's something I've tried to do and I've tried to lead others by you know through example of just being consistent day in day out and I want you to remember this story because if you ever feel like you're having a hard day or you think that you've worked really hard for a week it could be so much worse that you have no like you have no idea and I have no idea like some of the stuff that people do to make a living it's so much harder physically so much harder mentally than training kids and we have it really easy and again you can be one of those people that is complaining about the work that you have to do or you can embrace it and love it and be like man I'm so grateful that I have the opportunity to work hard on this thing and also how lucky are you to be able to work day in and day out in this industry I mean that's such a blessing to be able to have that in the first place and you know what you should work really hard you should work hard every single day to make what you do better and pretend you're like one of those guys like that is out there all day every day putting in the work and getting the result and doing the work until it gets done now am I saying that you need to work 17 hours per day no because a lot of what I teach coaches it's about streamlining their business and working smart like but you have to work hard that is something that a lot of people just don't get they they think that posting to Instagram is working hard that is not working hard all right I'll be clear anyone can post Instagram well who's gonna post Instagram multiple multiple multiple times who's gonna do outreach multiple multiple multiple times per day who's gonna write the emails multiple multiple multiple times per week creating the content videos all the time most people can't do that because when work gets a little bit hard they shut down and when they shut down nothing happens and all the momentum stops all right so I wanted to share that with you today that's stuck with me and I'm glad I saw that when I was 18 and I know now like there are so many different levels to to work and you got to work hard that I think that is expected to be successful but it's one of those things you you don't have to go talk about how hard you work you don't have to go prove it to other people how hard you work you just need to do it all right and the only person you need to prove it to is yourself you don't have to prove it to other people you just need to prove it yourself and that is done through just taking daily action and not being distracted and that to me is what makes a successful person it's someone who finds joy in the work that they do they love working hard and they can work hard every single day on something because they love it and they have the privilege to do it and they're gonna do it no matter what and that's what I'm all about and I hope you resonate with that that's it for today's video keep working hard and and you never know how far you can take something if you do it every single day day and day out during the week see you later