07/29/2019 - Kickoff Hour & Hour 1
The Rick Burgess Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have about five choices. You know, we can be bad at what we do. I mean, we can be average at what we do. |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, we can be good at what we do, or we can be excellent, or we can be elite. |
| 0:29.0 | And everybody has a choice as to what they want to do and how they want to do that. |
| 0:33.0 | And if you're going to be excellent or at least, you got to do special things. |
| 0:37.0 | You have to have special intensity, you have to have special focus, you have to have a special commitment and drive and passion to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time. |
| 0:47.0 | And it doesn't matter what God given ability that you have, that probably can make you good. |
| 0:54.0 | But without the rest of it, I'm not sure you ever get excellent or elite. And that's the part that we're trying to get to. |
| 1:01.0 | Truly a reset and a recommitment and a refocus. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, we go back to work. We live modern, but we train old, you know, that's a mindset so that you don't lose the perspective. |
| 1:12.0 | You just fall in love with the grind. I mean, it's a grind and you got to love it. |
| 1:17.0 | They don't put championship rings on smooth hands, you got to put the work in. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, the quality of the construction is based on the commitment of the crew. |
| 1:23.0 | You got to have guys, coaches and staff that are committed. |
| 1:26.0 | And the big part of being the team is you have to be able to communicate with other people and you have to work with other people. |
| 1:33.0 | And you can never have any team chemistry for this reason. |
| 1:36.0 | Media ochre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people. |
| 1:42.0 | So if everybody doesn't buy into the same principles and values of the organization in the same high standard, |
| 1:47.0 | you're never going to be successful. |
| 1:49.0 | Get the right guys on the bus, get them in the right seats and get the wrong guys off the bus. |
| 1:55.0 | So one of these days you're going to be working in an organization and somebody's going to try to do that to you. |
| 2:00.0 | So which one of those people do you want to be? |
| 2:02.0 | Do you want to be somebody that's trying to get off the bus? |
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