Zach Tessier knows a thing or two about persevering. After being diagnosed with diabetes in high school he went on to play Division 1 baseball at High Point University.
"I realized early on that results are not always immediately attainable but are achievable over time."
Being committed to a goal is one of the most powerful things a human being can be part of. Putting blinders on and blocking any and all negativity or doubt is the tool of all tools a student-athlete can attain.
Extreme focus is what is required in order to reach your goals, but it is hard to maintain for prolonged periods of time. It is especially difficult when one experiences a failure or a life altering situation, like in the case of Zach. When one loses this focus it is important to immediately brush off the failures, learn how to deal with the altering experience and persevere.
One's aspirations are bigger than one's self. Each day it is important to find a motivation that peps you up to get back on the horse and work hard. Another thing to understand is that the only way to truly grow is to fail and learn from those failures.
A tactic to use when facing failure is not looking at it as failure, but instead as you learning what not to do. This keeps the process positive and actionable. Thomas Edison once said, "genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Nothing worth achieving comes easy.
Patience is the final thing. Teach yourself not to be flustered by failure instead embrace the process and learn to love it. Great hitters in baseball fail over 70 percent of the time and make it to the Hall of Fame. The highly successful people of the world are usually not the smartest or most talented, but the hardest working and most patient.
In order to be great at something one must love the process of becoming great at it.
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