Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / The Standard Doesn't Change
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- Adam Rutz: Winning a championship doesn't mean your work is done. It means that you've proven what's possible and now you gotta go do it again. I was listening to Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brindamore. He was talking to his team at training camp just a few months after they won the Stanley Cup. And he said something that really stood out to me. He explained the expectation of the organization had not changed. They still expect to be the best team in the world this season. But the expectation of each individual player was much simpler. Show up every single day and give everything you've got. And I think there's a tremendous lesson there that applies to every single one of us because think about it. In sports, you can have a goal of winning a championship, but you can't control every bounce of the puck or every decision by an official or every result throughout the season. And life is no different. Maybe you're trying to grow a business, advance in your career, become a better husband or wife, or raise children to become great people. Whatever your goals are, you can't control every outcome. But you can control how you show up. You can control whether you're prepared for that important meeting, whether you're fully present when you get home to your family, whether you follow through on the commitments you made. And here's where I think people get themselves into trouble. They allow yesterday's success to lower today's standards. Because yesterday's championship doesn't win today's practice. Yesterday's great month at work. Doesn't make today's effort any less important. And being a great parent or spouse yesterday doesn't replace showing up for the people you love today. Brenda Moore also reminded his players that one day they won't have the opportunity to put those skates on anymore. And that's true for every one of us. The opportunities we have today are not guaranteed forever. So here's what I want you to think about today: identify one area of your life where you've gotten a little too comfortable. Ask yourself, What would giving my absolute best look like in that area today? Then go do it. Because your definition of winning might be different from somebody else's. But the standard should always be the same. Show up, give everything you've got, find a way to get better, and then do it again tomorrow. Mindset, process, discipline, execution. That's mental performance daily.