It might be harder to remove than you think
The one thing holding you back.
It might be the hardest thing to remove.
When you really think about your life and your goals, everything you do matters.
Your choices.
Your habits.
Your food.
Your thoughts.
Your routines.
Every single one of them is doing one of two things.
They are either moving you closer to your goal.
Or they are moving you further away from it.
Something interesting happens when you start removing the things that pull you away from your goals and replacing them with things that move you toward them.
Small changes start stacking up.
And those stacks start changing your life.
I’ll give you an example from my own hockey career.
When I was playing college hockey and early in my pro career, my nighttime routine looked like this.
Sit on the couch.
Eat potato chips.
Watch movies or play video games.
And spit chewing tobacco into an empty water bottle.
That was my routine for years.
About four years into my pro career, I had a realization.
My life and my hockey career were not going in the direction I wanted.
So I made a few changes.
The biggest one was quitting chewing tobacco and beating the nicotine addiction that had controlled me for more than a decade.
And something amazing happened.
Once I quit, I realized how much that habit had been affecting my cardiovascular endurance.
Without it, I felt like I was skating the wind.
But I didn’t stop there.
Instead of sitting on the couch eating chips at night, I started drinking water and focusing on hydration.
Then I took it another step further.
Instead of sitting on the couch for two hours watching TV, I started foam rolling and stretching while I watched.
Two hours every night.
Was that extreme?
Maybe.
But I figured if I was going to sit there for two hours anyway, I might as well improve instead of just passing the time.
During those nights I learned something important.
I learned how to listen to my body.
If something was sore, I rolled the muscles above it, below it, and around it.
I let the injured area rest while I helped everything around it recover.
Those small habits added up.
Now it’s your turn.
If you quiet your mind and really think about it, you already know the things in your life that are holding you back.
You know the habits you need to eliminate.
And you know the habits that could move you closer to your goals.
The hard part is not identifying them.
The hard part is taking action.
Because if you actually do it, if you actually remove the things that are holding you back and replace them with better habits…
You will instantly separate yourself from 99 percent of your peers who are not willing to change.
So the question becomes simple.
How bad do you want it?
Knuckles up,
Bobby Robins, savage motivator, NHL alum, writer for Wraparound
P.S. One of the easiest ways to separate yourself as a hockey player is simple. More puck touches.
Even 15 minutes a day stickhandling at home can make a huge difference over time.
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