Sometime You Hunt | Sometimes You Are Being Hunted

ATHLETE: Am I good?

PARENT: Why do you ask that?

ATHLETE: Because I'm not starting.  Does that mean that I'm not good?

PARENT:  Not starting doesn't mean that you aren't good.  You play alot, you make plays when you get in the game, you add value to your team and your team appreciates you and accepts you, and your teammates love playing with you and your coach lives coaching you.  

In sports and in life, you have to learn how to be the hunter and be the hunted.

The hunted is the starter.  The All-Star.  The MVP.  The champion.  The one who gets all of the attention and all of the love.  It's great being the hunted as long as you never forget that people are hunting you and want your spot.

The hunter is the one coming off the bench, wanting to start.  They are watching, waiting, and working.  It's great being the hunter because the expectations aren't there yet and you are still the underdog, and you are still hungry and grinding behind the scenes. 

Whether you are the hunter or the hunted, you have to kill everyday at practice.  You have to work hard outside of practice to get better.  The hunter has to grind to take a spot, and the hunted has to grind to keep their spot.

It's good to be both the hunter and the hunted.  It's good to know how to be the star and handle all of the expectations that come with it and know how to hunt and work and go get what you want.

Nothing in life is free, and you have to earn (hunt for) everything that you want.  When you get it (hunter), you have to know how to appreciate it and keep it.

Learn how to hunt and be the hunter.  Right now you are the hunter.  Now, go find a way to EAT.