“You gotta be “This tall” to even “Think” about getting on this ride because the final stop for this ride is skill.”
Before the word coach was used in sports, it was strictly used as a means of transportation. There was a horse, a coachman to stir the reins used to direct the horse, and the coach was where the passenger rested until they reached their destination.
T – Talent
A – Attitude
L – Listening
L – Leveling-up
Talent
Talent is what you do well.
Having God-given bat speed is talent. Being able to maintain that bat speed, making contact and driving the ball against varying pitch types, locations and speeds is skill.
Attitude
Attitude is how you act.
Having a good attitude when things are going well is one thing. Maintaining it when things are not going well is another thing.
Listen
Listening and hearing are not the same. Listening leads to understanding and when you understand something, you can do something.
What if you had an opportunity to be trained by the world’s greatest hitting coach for a week with a guarantee you could develop into one of the top hitters in America?
But what if your new hitting coach did not speak the same language as you? You could hear what he was saying, but you wouldn’t be able to understand.
As Alan Alda said, “Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”
Leveling-up
To level up means to increase something in order to remove unfair treatment of others.
What do you call a person who has success and uses it to serve others? I call that person significant.
Remember: Skills pay the bills and significant people can change the life of struggling people.
Since talent is what you do well and habits are things you do well repeatedly without thought, skills are things you do well repeatedly without thought while under stress.
I challenge you to use fall baseball wisely so you can develop the skills you need to achieve your future goal because there are people whose lives are tied to your dreams.
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C.J. Stewart has built a reputation as one of the leading professional hitting instructors in the country. He is a former professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization and has also served as an associate scout for the Cincinnati Reds. As founder and CEO of Diamond Directors Player Development, C.J. has more than 22 years of player development experience and has built an impressive list of clients, including some of the top young prospects in baseball today. If your desire is to change your game for the better, C.J. Stewart has a proven system of development and a track record of success that can work for you.
