Mindset: The Difference Between Spectators and Players - Kevin Ward

Hi there. It's Kevin Ward. And I was just on the beach today working out with my wife, and we were running along the beach, and there was a lady that was walking toward us. Pretty sure she doesn't exercise very much. She was walking along the sidewalk. And one of the things I do is because I've been exercising and training a lot harder than Julie. So when we're doing our stuff and she's jogging, I'll then sprint ahead and. And run as fast as I can and just get my heart rate up. And I'm doing some different things than she's doing. And so as we're. As I was walking along or with Julie, and we were kind of resting, and I said, okay, I'm going to sprint. I'll be back in a minute. So I'm sprinting along, and this other lady's walking by, and as I'm sprinting by her, she's looking at me, she's shaking her head and smiling real big, and she says, you're making me tired just watching you. You're making me tired just watching you. And I just thought about that, and I'm like, that's an interesting perspective, because a few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a competitive athlete, and I mean, like an elite athlete, and we were talking about watching other players, other people who are better at you or the best in the world, and watching them like on YouTube or on video. And so as we're talking about it, he said something. He said, I enjoy watching them, like the best in the world perform. He says, because when I watch them, I get better just watching them. And so I was just thinking about the two different conversations, talking about, thinking about the two different attitudes that the lady that I passed today had compared to the attitude of the. My friend who looks at one, looks at somebody who's exerting themselves and going all out and says, I get tired just watching that. And another one looks at somebody who's going all out and doing it, and they go like, I get better by watching it. And here's the difference. The difference is how you view life. Do you view life as a spectator, or do you view your life as a winner, as a competitor, as a player? Because, see, the world is full of people who basically are spectators. In fact, if you. One of the things that's interesting to me about television watching, for example, watching sports on television is watching sports on television is not designed for players. All the programming, when you watch ESPN and all of that, it's designed for spectators, it's not designed for players. It's not. The players can't relate to that because players don't think like spectators think. Players look at something, they go like, wow, I wish I could do that. A player looks at it and goes like, wow, I'm going to learn how to do that. A spectator looks at somebody who's giving 100% and goes like, oh, I get tired just watching that. A player looks at that and goes like. I get inspired by watching that. So I want you just to think about it. To me, this is a mindset issue. And I think, I believe, in fact, I'm going to say, I know that your mindset, the conversations that we have with ourselves every day, the conversations we have with others, when we see something, we go like, that looks so hard is so different than going like, wow, that looks awesome. I know that's going to be hard, but wow, imagine being able to do that. How different a perspective it is between a spectator and a player. A spectator looks at it and goes like, oh, that's too hard. A player looks at it and goes like, what do I have to do to learn how to do that? What would I have to do to become like that? Because I'm going to do that. Are you a player or are you a spectator? And it starts here. It starts in the mindset. The mindset of people who achieve. The mindset of people who achieve their goals, who achieve greatness, who do great things and make a big difference is totally different than the mindset of those who just watch and look at other people doing it and goes like, but I could never do that because, well, I'm just too hard. Well, I'm not. I don't have what it takes. I'm not smart enough, young enough, fast enough, skilled enough. Whatever spectator or winner, you decide, what are you going to be? It starts here. And then when you get clear, I'm a player, and you go at it every day with that view of life, you're going to figure out how to win and you're going to see other people who are playing and winning instead of looking at them and judging them or looking at them and dismissing them and going to look at them and go like that inspires me. I'm going to become better just by watching them. I'm going to raise my game. Raise your game. Play to win, Commit to be a player, not a spectator, because it's your life.