A Player’s are professionals who are working towards mastery. Being a professional is a mindset, a process, and a life journey. Professionals show up, face fears, create, make things better, and work towards mastery.
SHOW UP 
Professionals show up and do what’s required even when they don’t want too. They work with other people even when they don’t like them.  They work even when they don’t have all the information. They don’t make excuses. They show up and get to work.
FACE FEARS
Professionals face their fears. They don’t run away or hide from their fears. We are all afraid at times.  A professional says “Yes” and goes towards fear.
ARE CREATORS
The professional does not criticize others because they are too busy creating. They have a respect for other creators. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, it is not the critic who counts, it the man in the arena who battles, who is marred, battered, and beaten. He is the victor. He is a creator.
BETTER THAN BEFORE
You can tell when you have been around a professional because they leave things better than when they found them. They take ownership of their role in any environment.
WORKING TOWARDS MASTERY 
The secret to mastery is there is no secret. You show up, give your best, repeat, practice, get a little bit better. Show up, do it again, again, again, and again. Every pursuit involves mundane, small, insignificant tasks. The master knows these small insignificant tasks are what make the difference. It’s the repetitive action that makes a master. It’s the act no one notices; it’s continuing to do it when no one is looking. Did Kobe Bryant get better at basketball for the 2 hours you see him on TV or was it the 4-hour practice before the game when he was the only one on the court? When others needed to ‘save their energy’ – he practiced and practiced. Masters can’t be outworked.

Heard. Watched. Read. 

  • “I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, ‘If only that hadn’t happened life would be so good.’ Then I suddenly realized life IS the obstacles. There is no underlying path.” – Janna Levin
  • “We want people on our team who are highly motivated, confident and wired to do the job well. It’s not hard to teach the proper way. What is impossible to teach is how to care deeply.” – Danny Meyer, Setting The Table.
  • The Mayan Temples took 300 years to build. Imagine the leadership it takes to keep on a vision and goal for that kind of period. This 45-second video helps us understand that leaders think long-term.