Hall of Fame Coach George Raveling on Progression and Being Relevant

George Raveling (0:00)

Think about this. We spend more time planning our vacation than we do planning our lives. When we're gonna go, how we're gonna go, who's gonna go, how much we're gonna spend on it, when we're gonna come back.

But we don't spend the same amount of time planning our lives. And so to me, if you and I can live our lives strategically, then we have a great advantage over other people. Because I don't know how you know, if you don't know where you're going, how do you know when you arrive?

And so to me, if we take control of our lives and we take control of personal development, I think we have a huge advantage over everybody else. Because most people are just living from day to day. And they're not living with a sense of purpose.

Michael Gervais (1:04)

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