Greatness

When I was in elementary school, I was not challenged to greatness. School work was not a challenge to me, it came easy. In fact, with almost no effort, year after year, I would get all A's and one B on my report card.

From time to time my father would talk to me about "buckling down" and getting serious about my school work, but I did not see the point in working hard because getting good grades was so easy for me. My theory as a child was, "If I can get grades like this with minimal effort, why would I want to work a lot harder to get slightly better grades?"

I was coasting.

I was also developing bad study and work habits that still come back and bite me to this day.

A year ago I put together the Ten Tigers program for me and any students who wanted to join me. The purpose, for me, was to stop coasting. The program requires lots of exercise, lots of hard work, reading, acts of kindness, exercises in sympathy, writing, and lots more.

The Ten Tigers program is very challenging, it is also very rewarding. It has changed the way I live every day. I'm in the best shape of my life, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

The whole premise is to work hard, to strive for greatness. Why settle for what comes easy when you can reach towards your full potential?

Why coast downhill, when you can pedal and build up momentum for when you have to go uphill?

Why settle for mediocrity, when you can strive for greatness?

“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”

Buck Rodgers quotes (Former American Baseball Player. b.1938)