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13 Nov

Why You Need to Be a Legend In Your Own Mind

Be self-confident

Former NFL and Super Bowl Champion quarterback Trent Dilfer shared his story recently on a podcast. During the interview, he was asked how he handled the period of his career in Tampa where he was being openly booed in public by fans for the team's poor performance. Dilfer laughed...

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08 Nov

Do You Even Know You’re Already Competing Every Day?

Jake Thompson

"Compete every day? No, that's not me. I don't like to compete." Does that response sound like something you'd say? I used to hear it quite often at tradeshows with the Compete Every Day team. Visitors would be walking the expo floor, stop in the booth to shop the apparel...

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10 Oct

How I Killed My Excuses – And So Can You

Kill Your Excuses

"Excuses are lies we tell ourselves so that it doesn't have to be our fault." - Chris Creed There are a million excuses that I can whip out of thin air instantaneously. We all can. Because using excuses is easier than doing what we need to get done. But as you've heard...

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20 Sep

How to (Actually) Be Better Than Yesterday

Jake Thompson

Who are you looking toward as your competition? Who do you see on a daily / weekly / monthly basis as your measuring stick, and God help you if you haven't caught up - or passed - them? But do

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19 Sep

Finding Motivation When You’re In a Rut

A friend recently asked for help getting out of his rut. He’s been a competitive athlete the last decade and due to injuries and changes in his life, is no longer competing for sport. He’s losing motivation to go workout

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07 Sep

Why Now Is Better

I used to believe that if I didn’t start at an earlier (“better”) time, then there was no use starting now. Because, I knew that if I had started when I originally said I was going to, I’d be so

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14 Aug

How to Manage Your Gap

I think a lot of people can relate to the idea of starting fresh and starting over. The “getting ramped up and getting moving” sucks. For example, when I started my professional speaking career, I quickly grew frustrated because you

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02 May

That Moment

Compete Athlete Sandbag pickup

We’ve all had that moment. You know which one I’m referring to, right? The one where we quit. It’s that moment when we stopped pushing ourselves because it got really hard. Or it hurt. Or we didn’t think we could

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24 Jan

What If There’s Nothing Special About Me?

Jake Thompson

But there’s nothing special about my story. I remember telling my coach that early in our time working together. I was new to public speaking and had hired his team years ago to help me elevate my craft to better

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03 Oct

Until You Can Do What You Want

Compete Every Day pullups

I tore my Achilles almost seven weeks ago during a men’s basketball league game. As anyone who has gone through this recovery process can attest, it has not been a fun seven weeks. I’ve been actively doing physical therapy 2-3 days

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