[013] how you livin’?
BEYOND BUILDING HABITS. DESIGN A LIFESTYLE.
To the person:
If you are anything like me, you are on a never-ending journey to become a better person. That pursuit typically involves building habits of some sort. These habits are usually intended to lead you to more positive outcomes. I think it’s important to practice habit-building and track your progress in performing the task itself. It can help build up momentum towards your goals and strengthen the muscle of just showing up. SHOWING UP IS THE BARE MINIMUM. The highest-level performers in every industry speak at length about showing up and doing the work. So much so that the idea of working becomes more than something they do; it’s who they are. That is why building a lifestyle is more important than building habits. Your lifestyle is who you are, while a habit is just something you do. The person who has a better lifestyle typically wins in the end. Think about the person who strives to lose weight vs. the person who lives an active and organic lifestyle just for the sake of living it.
To the player:
The best players I have ever met are not necessarily the hardest workers or the ones who go to bed at the same time every night. They don't rely solely on specific habits they think might make them better players. Don’t get me wrong—hard work has its place in helping us maximize our talents, and discipline can make us better players as well. But the best players I have ever worked with or played with simply created the lifestyle of a hooper. This includes their confidence, their personality, and their belief system. Your lifestyle is a direct reflection of who you are. The environment you place yourself in will inevitably produce a result. The true test is whether you can create an environment where you have no choice but to become the player you want to be.
TRY THIS:
Start by making a list of who you actually want to be and what the lifestyle of someone living that reality is probably like. Would they work out? Watch film? Talk to themselves? Shoot 500 shots a day? List everything they would do, feel, and believe in. Then mimic that lifestyle as closely as possible. The habits you build as a result will, in turn, feed more into the lifestyle you have created. Leading you to creating the results that you are looking for faster than simple habit building itself.
