Trey Burke on Creating and Routine and Working Daily for Your Dreams

I think most people want to be good and try to work hard to accomplish their goals, and often when things don’t work out how we want, instead of blaming others or making excuses, we have to look at ourselves in the mirror and really decide if we are working as hard as we think – or as hard as we need to – to achieve our goals.

Trey Burke, a point guard for the New York Knicks, recently had to look himself in the mirror and figure out what type of player he was going to be and how hard he was going to have to work to become that.

Trey Burke was a star at the University of Michigan, helping lead them to the National Championship game.  He was then a lottery pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves and traded to the Utah Jazz.  After 3 years with the Jazz and 1 season with the Washington Wizards, Burke found himself out of the NBA and in the G-League.  

It was there where Trey Burke said that he had to look himself in the mirror and he realized that he wasn't working as hard as he thought he was or as hard as he needed, so he created a routine for every morning and every night, stuck to it, and it became brighter and brighter each day.  He went from on top of the world to out of the league very quickly, and he could have given up or made excuses, or even stayed where he was at in the G-League.  But, Burke knew what he wanted to do and who he wanted to be and he made a plan and worked his way back to where he wanted to be.

When you aren’t getting what you want out of sports, out of school or out of life, you have to take a different approach.  You have to determine what type of person you want to be.  You have to reflect on where you are and where you want to go, create a vision for yourself, establish a routine on how you plan to improve – EVERYDAY – and stick with it.  When you do see improvement, let it drive you to get more.  Don’t stop.  Keep going.

What is one area where you want more or think you can do better?

What is one thing that you can do every day to become the person that you want to become?