DO THIS To Get RID OF YOUR FEARS! | Tony Gonzalez EP 457

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1:08How 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 know you stop believing in yourself and you suck and you're just not good uh where it can bring you to your knees you know yeah and that's what happened to me i was brought to my knees where i was on the bottom figuratively literally where i mean 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.

1:53And 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. But whoever said that, it's wise. Because the formula for success is there. But we all have these stories, stories of jealousy, they're stories of, okay, I'm not good enough.

2:30They're 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 i maybe that's that's a feeling of love too of like i love playing football uh i don't love practicing but i love catching footballs and i fell in love with that and I fell in love with the process of what it takes to be great.

3:17I 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. Most 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.

3:59Where I said, you know what, I've got to come up with a different routine. Because Michael Jordan does this. Michael Jordan gets 1 ,000 shots. But you have to love what you do in order to do that. Otherwise, you'll quit. But I've had guys that watch me and 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 if you don't do that, you won't do it. So 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.

4:32After 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. 20 ,000 to 240 ,000 balls caught over a 15-year span. Wow. 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 of closing your eyes putting yourself in that game speed uh that that smell of the grass looking up at the crowd uh 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 like it's amazing it changes everything when you play the game in your head before you go out there but it has to come from your heart and i try to open my heart when i do these visionary exercises uh 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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