It’s the Start that Stops Most People

Winners lose more often than losers do.

In Strength and Conditioning, the F.I.T.T. Principle helps optimize workouts for maximum results:

• Frequency: how often an exercise is repeated
• Intensity: the level of effort exerted
• Time: the duration of training sessions
• Type: the variety of exercises performed

When individuals train with these four factors in mind, they experience progressive overload and noticeable improvement. The latter three amplify the first.

Volume precedes victory.

"In order to become a master, an individual must first risk being a fool.”

Many bad reps lead to good reps, which eventually lead to great reps. Great reps, performed consistently and intentionally, lead to greatness.

Steph Curry, the point guard for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, holds the record for the most three-pointers made—3,948 and counting. Now in his 16th professional season, it’s been said that he shoots roughly 500 three-pointers a day in practice—about 3,500 per week, 14,000 per month, and 168,000 per year. Over his career, he has taken over 2.6 million practice shots, not including those from his college, high school, and childhood years.

Yet, he has made fewer than one-tenth of 1% of the total shots he’s practiced.

And that’s how he became the best of all time.

What we practice in the dark shines in the light.

What we practice in private gets rewarded in public.

We cannot practice something we love until we get it right; we must practice it until we cannot get it wrong.

Thomas Edison echoed this truth about attempt, volume, and perseverance before inventing the lightbulb:

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Winston Churchill, the influential Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII, emphasized persistence and consistency:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts… Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

F.A.I.L.U.R.E.

Faith
Ambition &
Intention
Lead
Us
Relentlessly to
Excellence

No obituary will ever state that someone was born a doctor, engineer, or lawyer.

There’s a reason we cheer for the underdog. It’s not because of constant winning—it’s because every beating heart can relate to loss.

Losses are lessons.

All rage and restlessness can be reframed as routes to redemptive resolution.

Each day presents two roads: one of progress and one filled with problems.

We get to choose:

• Fascination or frustration
• Opportunity or obstacle
• A life happening to us—or for us

Live life as though everything is rigged in your favor.

– Rumi

Be willing to look foolish on the path to mastery.

The future we make depends on the perspective we take.

Volume precedes victory.

— MG