One of the most challenging areas of high achievement is remembering that success is like a brick house…it is built one brick at a time, one layer at a time. The work you put in each day is one more brick of growth that leads to your future success but only if you stack that brick today.

This video from Greg Rose couldn’t be more true. It is such good advice to players of all ages and not just in your skill work. In business we think of ROI (short term and long term) as the primary driver of our decisions. This has to be the main focus on the field, in the weight room, at the dinner table, getting into bed, etc. I often times define this to our professional, college and youth athletes as “work ethic>hard work.” Hard work is the action of putting forth effort, while work ethic is the application of hard work toward underlying principle or set of moral values that drives an individual to work diligently, responsibly, and with integrity. A strong work ethic includes traits like reliability, punctuality. dedication, focus, etc which combine with hard work to achieve goals.

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Your kids Travel team most likely won't get them recruited...Read it again! Unless you play for the 17u CBA Marucci, currently #1 in the country (or an alternative) and in that case almost every game they play is in front of a minimum of 15-20 D1 guys... Those guys are different. For your Kid, and especially locally here in Reno if you're playing 16/17U You're probably better off training, practicing. That's not a knock, but the local guys, outside of a few don't have a ton of relationships beyond HS and guess what? It's not their Job, they are trying to run a travel ball program. Just for fun, ask your Travel Ball coach what a DSA is in College sports. Without Googling, they won't know the answer... Once your kid gets to college, they should be playing summer league baseball somewhere not coming back to Golden Eagle to play as a 19 year old, unless they have been told there is nowhere for them to play. Even then, I would just continue to train and practice.