Now Is The Time

Over the next two months, thousands of athletes will attend Performance Course across Texas and Oklahoma looking to improve strength, speed and conditioning with their team each day. While these goals are important objectives, they are not the main goal. The Performance Course is and always will be a team building program to teach young people about the power of belief, leadership, attitude, consistency, effort and desire. The hard physical training is our platform to teach this. Whether you are a participant, parent, coach or observer, we hope that you will find value in our core message that we will deliver as we journey through June and July. As summer 2018 begins, we wanted to share what this will look like as we work for coaches and kids to shape them into better people and most importantly better teams.

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR ATHLETES:

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. By making a commitment to your team and beginning the journey of living WE > me, you have made a decision that can have long lasting effects for not only yourself but more importantly for your team, coaches, family and future.

The Performance Course is not a workout. It’s a movement, a culture and a commitment to improving yourself and your team as athletes and more importantly as human beings. While you will be exposed to the best coaching and most effective training methods in the world, it is no guarantee for success. In fact, we believe that there are no guarantees in life, only opportunities. We firmly believe in doing the little things better than anyone else. Your character will determine your destiny and provide you and your team the chance to stand as champions.

As a competitor, the two most important ingredients to reaching your potential as an individual and as a team are strength of character and mentality. After working with over 100,000 athletes, thousands of teams and being around some of the greatest coaches on the planet, these are the two components that seem to stick out when it comes to reaching your potential.

The Road Map

We encourage you to stamp these 6 fundamental attributes to your heart on your journey:

Belief — Our star is a symbol of belief and we feel it is the most important attribute you can possess. If you BELIEVE in yourself, your team, your coaches and your WHY, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished. Belief is your why in life and can be more powerful than anything you can possess. Nietzsche said, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” You gotta believe!!!!

Leadership — Leadership is what separates teams and companies from average to great. Leadership is serving others and having the courage to do what is right all the time. Leaders have to influence. Leaders are the keeper of the flame. Good teams have coaches who are keepers of the flame. Great teams have players who are keepers of the flame. You have to keep people believing regardless of the circumstance or how they feel. It takes a mentally tough, unselfish individual to do this.

Attitude — Attitude is your mindset or approach. We are talking about a “burn the boats”, take no prisoners attitude that you are going to do whatever it takes each and every day to make yourself and your teammates champions. The only two things you can completely control are your effort and your attitude. Control what you can control and attitude is the game changer.

Consistency — You don’t have to be a great or naturally talented player, but you can always take great pride in “bringing it” all day, every day. Consistency relates to the other factor you can control, effort. Everyone can work hard sometimes but very few can work hard all the time, every time. As an individual, you may not have more talent than others. One factor that can help even the playing field is consistency. Can your competitors truly stomach what it will take to beat you? Can they bring it every day? One of the greatest traits one can posses is that of consistency.

Effort — As discussed before, effort is one of the few things you can control. Everyone wants to be known for something and we want you to be known for your effort. John Wooden said, “nothing works unless you do.” Mentally tough people have a definition of hard work and their definition is vastly different than most people. Effort is contagious and your effort or lack of can affect or infect your teammates.

Desire — Desire is “want to” or good old fashion grit. Grit is the ability to not bend and to stay the course regardless of the situation. Failure and adversity are inevitable. Desire is the fuel that allows you to continue on to inspire your team and ignite the energy in yourself and others.

Now Is The Time. Future successes will be determined by the work put in this summer. PC SUMMER 18 IS HERE!