It Takes What It Takes

His confidence, however, would be built on his physical preparation. That would be driven by commitment, strategy,

“Of all the things you teach, Trev, nothing hit me between the eyes like the illusion of choice,” MGM Studios COO Chris Brearton told me. “It so clearly is true, and yet we all compete against our own choices every day.”

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours—it is an amazing journey—and you alone

What happens next will be determined solely by what you do next, and what you do next will be the absolute right thing, I promise, if you focus on that thing and that thing alone. The past isn’t predictive. The past isn’t prologue. If you can absorb and embrace that belief, everything can change.

It’s what you do, not how you feel, that gets things done. We can do our way into feeling the way we need to. It’s hard to feel our way into achieving a damn thing. We all want things, and there’s value to that; want is a precursor to motivation. But want is an idea. Commitment is execution.

“Accepting the past as a real event is powerful,” he told me when we met up in Manhattan Beach after the season. “It also frees you when you understand the next event is independent of that past—and can actually be different.”

What has happened. What is happening. What will happen.

Give every bit of yourself. Hold nothing back. Life cannot deny itself to the person who gives life his all.2

You may be intimidated by that pressure you feel to perform every day. Instead, try embracing it. Pressure isn’t a burden. It isn’t something to be avoided or minimized. As tennis great Billie Jean King said, pressure is a privilege. What does that mean? If you’re under pressure, it means someone gives a shit what you do. If you’re under pressure,