Going Pro

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game HunterBeing a professional isn’t about the money. It’s about attitude.

TRANSCRIPT

I want to ask you a question.

When a soldier is on the battlefield and they wake up one day and says to themselves, “I don’t feel like doing that today,” what do they do?

If a pro athlete wakes up one day and says to themselves, “I don’t feel like practicing,” what do they do?

I think you know the answer — — they do it anyway.

Why? Because it is needed. It is important. They get that message and sometimes have resistance to doing things and learn to do them anyway.

Whether it’s a soldier on the battlefield or someone like Dwyane Wade, now the Chicago Bulls, formally of the Miami Heat, who has been a successful pro athlete for so many years, or Lebron or Eli or Peyton Manning or whoever the great athlete is, they practice anyway. They do what is needed, even though they don’t feel like it.

What do you do when you wake up and say to yourself, “I don’t feel like going to the…