New Year New You
“This year I’m going to…” and how you end the sentence is completely subjective. You, and only you, should define what success means. I have just finished reading a book called “Relentless” by Tim S. Grover. Tim was a former collegiate basketball player that due to repetitive injuries decided to shift his focus from being a player to being an Athletic Specialist. Tim has trained big shots like Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and the greatest, Michael Jordan. There is a ton of great information in the book, but the gist of it revolves around one concept – being relentless. In the book, Tim talks about how Kobe, Dwayne, and Michael are all “cleaners”. What’s a cleaner? Well, the whole book is about what a cleaner is or isn’t so trying to define it in one sentence is tough, but to summarize it, a cleaner is someone with a purpose, focus and or goal that gets the job done. A cleaner is not an, “I’ll try” person, rather a, “I did and if it didn’t work, then I’ll do something else” machine. In