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Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life
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Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life

by Dre Baldwin
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
288 pages
4h 57m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life

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GO-GETTER

Personal initiative is about being a self-starter and making things happen instead of waiting for them to happen. This chapter introduces WOYG Principle #4: Personal Initiative, on the importance of taking personal ownership of your own success—of doing things before you’re told or asked to do them. Before circumstance crowds in and forces your hand. Before you see or hear someone else doing it. And before a sense of urgency is forced on you by a deadline.

BE PERSISTENT: FOLLOW-UP IS A KEY FACTOR IN TAKING INITIATIVE

My first ever YouTube video featured an exhibition dunk, followed by some game highlights. The best part of the video, though, is how I even acquired the footage.

I attended a professional basketball exposure camp in ...

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ISBN: 9781260121391