Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Stua, episode

2058. I recently heard Coach K, Mike Shoshchevsky, a legendary coach of Duke, Team USA

Basketball, say something about, he was talking about the players, his message to his players.

And what he told them is something that really resonated with me and I think you might like it.

He says that when you step onto the court, you need to be worthy of winning.

And the way to be worthy of winning is to practice diligently, to prepare to win, to get the sleep, to do all the little things

so that when you step on the court, you are worthy to win. And I think that's just a powerful

principle to win in life as well. One thing that I've noticed I've learned in my years working with the best athletes in the world

is that it doesn't matter how much you prepare.

It doesn't matter how much preparation you've put in.

When you step onto the field, you're going to get some doubts occasionally.

You're going to get that little voice in the head that's going to question if you did everything you could in

order to be ready for that moment, to be worthy of winning. And what athletes tell me is they say

it's the best feeling to be able to smile at that voice

and to say yes, I did. Because the mind keeps receipts. Well, the world may not know how much

you did or didn't prepare. Your teammates might not even know how much you did or didn't prepare,

but you know. And everything you do and everything you don't do is being captured by that

mind of yours and when you slack off and you don't do what you say you're going to do your mind is

keeping the receipts and when the moment comes your mind's going to be able to pull out the receipts

and say hey remember this you didn't get that sleep in.

Hey, remember this? You're not putting in the work in. You cut corners here. You didn't give your

best here. You didn't study film here. You weren't, you didn't do this thing in order to be

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