DO THIS To Get RID OF YOUR FEARS! | Tony Gonzalez

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0:37How do you get connected to the heart in an industry that is all about ego? Sometimes, at least for me, and you've probably noticed this more than me, because you've been at this game where you're interviewing these movers and shakers. Majority of people, they have that story. You stop believing in yourself and you suck and you're just not good. Where it can bring you to your knees. And that's what happened to me. I was brought to my knees. Literally or figuratively. Literally. There's clips of me dropping another ball and just hitting the earth, the grass, out of frustration. And I would go home that night and I would be crying in my room, drinking a bunch of alcohol and crying and just spiraling out of control.

1:21And a lot of people, maybe they go through it differently, but I think that's part of the process. I mean, that's part of you coming face-to-face with who you really are. And I think from there, that's how you learn. At least that created a real hunger for me to go out and actually study the great ones. Study the people that have had great success because it leaves clues. That's true. I don't know who quoted that. That's not my original. Success leaves clues. Right. But whoever said that, it's wise. because the formula for success is there. But we all have these stories, stories of jealousy, the stories of, okay, I'm not good enough.

1:58The stories of I don't have what it takes and the self-doubt and all that envy and all that stuff. And I was able to start reading about people's lives, biographies. Then you start reading mind, body, and spirit. Those type of books I like to read. And then you start learning how to use vision. You know, close your eyes. That's really been, that helped me a lot. Yeah. was just getting to where every morning and every night, kind of the first thought on my brain was, okay, how am I going to get better at what I do? Maybe that's a feeling of love too, of like I love playing football. I don't love practicing, but I love catching footballs.

2:41And I fell in love with that. And I fell in love with the process of what it takes to be great. I came up with this routine of success. I called it that. That was my routine of success. And I always say, if you love what you do, the need for discipline will disappear. Discipline is great in a lot of areas of life, and you need it. But when it comes to what you are doing for a living, you want to be excited. You want to be like, okay, yeah, it's a grind, and I'm working my ass off, but where else would I rather be? And so I went from catching maybe 30 balls of practice, which as a receiver, you know this.

3:16Most guys go out there, they'll catch about 10 balls to warm up. and then throughout practice as a starter if you're one of the main guys who catches balls on the team you'll catch seven balls at the most during practice where i said you know what i gotta come up with a different routine because michael jordan does this michael jordan gets a thousand shots but you have to love what you do in order to do that otherwise you'll quit you'll do it i've had guys that watch me they're like oh i want to do what you do and they quit they'll do it for about two three weeks it's because they haven't fallen in love with some aspect of the game and And if you don't do that, you won't do it.

3:48So I caught 30 balls. I went from catching 30 balls a day to now catching probably 300 balls of practice. And you add that up. If after that third year, so 15 years, I played 17 years. After that, going from my third year to the end of my career, if I would have kept doing the routine that I did before, I would have caught 20 ,000 balls over my career. That's including practice and then games or whatever. Who knows? At 30 balls a day. At 30 balls a day. The way I did it now, since I'm catching 300 over the four days a week or whatever it is, it was like 245 ,000 balls I've caught. So you just do the math.

4:2520 ,000 to 240 ,000 balls caught over a 15-year span. That's what will make you a Hall of Famer. Let's not fool ourselves. You won't do that if you're not in love with your sport and you're not doing the vision, the confidence, are closing your eyes, putting yourself in that game speed, that smell of the grass, looking up at the crowd, seeing the happiness for my coaches. Like I would do this before I even played the game. I do this with my kids now. I have four kids. And I do guided meditations, and I've seen a result. It's amazing. It changes everything when you play the game in your head before you go out there.

5:01But it has to come from your heart. And I try to open my heart when I do these visionary exercises or meditations or whatever you want to call it, because that's the most powerful thing on your body. That's what your coach always says. Get out of your mind. You're too in your mind and play with heart. When you can get to that point, everything takes off. Yeah. Everything takes off.

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