Sublime

I will maximize my minutes by thinking, acting, training, and competing with excellence, regardless of circumstances.

In management, this is known as the “aggregation of marginal gains.”

That’s why when I coach my athletes, I start by developing the human being first—I have to build humans with a high level of resiliency, patience, dedication, humility, and hunger.

This is the process—acknowledging where you are, identifying where you want to be, and breaking it down into pieces. Excellence is a matter of steps. Excel at this one, then that one, and then the one after that.

Because Katrín, more than anyone I’ve ever met or coached, has bought into the process. “The process” is a term that’s been popularized by University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

The athletes are accountable for the development of their mental toughness through a pre-training mindfulness practice on a daily basis, as well as other character-development exercises.

focusing on improving areas in your performance that are not satisfactory.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. —Vince Lombardi Jr.

metamorphosis. The crowd is still on its feet, and I join them in their enthusiastic applause. Mat has been putting on a show all week long, but I’m most proud of this performance. It’s easy to compete with excellence when things are going your way; maintaining your composure when everything seems to be working against you is far more impressive, a