Maximize Your Minutes
In professional sports, the phrase “maximize your minutes’’ comes up frequently. The idea is that athletes should make the most of their time on the field, the ice, whatever. It’s a good practice, but it doesn’t mean the same thing to every athlete.
For example, for one athlete maximizing their minutes might mean that they concern themselves with every facet of the game instead of padding their own stats. They spend some (or most) of their time learning so that they can execute better over the long haul.
Another athlete might consider maximizing their minutes to mean that they want to be a big part of every play, no matter how. They go-all out on each and every instant, because that’s what maximizing their minutes means to them.
A third athlete may very well think a hybrid of the two aforementioned approaches is the way to go.
In professional wrestling, maximizing minutes means that when the spotlight is shining on you that you make sure you do a whole lot of shining as well. The spotlight moves around pretty frequently in that industry, so maximizing minutes isn’t something that happens in an “ebb and flow” sort of way. For many pro wrestlers, they only get one shot at the spotlight. They need to do whatever it takes –no matter what– to make that shot count.
I don’t always maximize my minutes. I need to be better at that. But before that happens, I need to decide what that means. Otherwise I could very well be squandering my time instead of making the most of it.
And you need to do the same.
