Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / Saban: The Process
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- Adam Rutz: Whether you love him or hate him, Nick Saban is undoubtedly the greatest college football coach of all time. Seven national championships, over 150 players drafted into the NFL throughout his coaching career, and a coaching tree that extends to 45 head coaches across college and professional football. The success is undeniable. Recently, last week, ESPN released a brand new documentary called Sabin. Highlighting the incredible career and the philosophy behind his success. Now, I haven't had the opportunity to watch a documentary yet, but from reading his books, listening to his leadership speeches, and studying what made him great, I want to spend this week on Mental Performance Daily sharing my five biggest takeaways from Nick Saban's coaching philosophy, and more importantly, how we can apply them in our own pursuit of elite performance. And we're starting with arguably his most famous principle. The process. When Saban arrived at Alabama in 2007, he talked about his 2003 LSU team that won the national championship. He explained that the players hadn't made winning the national championship one of their team goals. Instead, their goals focused on how they would operate every single day. Being great teammates, taking responsibility, preparing, and competing to the best of their abilities. The championship was the result of consistently executing those behaviors. And that's the mental performance lesson. Goals give us direction, but our daily process gives us the opportunity to achieve them. There's a process to becoming a great athlete. There's a process to becoming a great coach, a great business owner, or sales executive, or teacher, or accountant, or husband or wife. Whatever you're pursuing, there's a process to becoming great at it. And that process comes down to identifying the behaviors that produce success, then having the focus and discipline to repeat them every single day. Think about a pitcher. He wants to win the game, but he can't control the final score. He can control his preparation, his routine, and his commitment to executing the next pitch. The same goes for somebody growing a business. You can't control whether every customer says yes, but you can control. your preparation, your conversations, and your follow-through. So here's your challenge today. Identify one outcome you're working towards. Then write down three process oriented goals, three daily behaviors within your control that will give you the best opportunity to achieve that outcome. And tonight, don't just ask yourself whether you got the result you wanted. Ask yourself, did I execute my process today? Because success Isn't built by constantly staring at the scoreboard. It's built through the consistent repetition of the right behaviors. Focus on the process, execute the next rep, and give yourself the best opportunity to earn the results that you're chasing. Mindset, process, discipline, execution. That's mental performance daily.