A CEO of a company in Germany coined the phrase, ‘The world belongs to the happily discontented.” He did not mean that you should continuously beat yourself up for not winning or not meeting targets. He meant, ‘Do not accept the status quo; never say it’s good enough.’ Rather, always strive to be a little better than before. The goal is not to be better than them but to be better than you were before. Individuals and businesses prosper and thrive when they continuously raise the bar – when they raise the standards, not the targets.

OUR SUMMARY OF THIS VIDEO: In the growth and development of this team, I’m talking to you about norms, expectations and mindsets – mindsets that you should have.

It’s always good to acknowledge reasonable expectations.

I expect you to get better in all areas – whether it’s the knowledge of what you do, the maintenance and the preparation of your body, or the understanding of the end of the game, etc, etc.

You need to continually be a guy on the rise. That is a reasonable expectation.

What do I mean by that?

I mean the things that made you viable in the past aren’t going to be the things that make you viable moving forward.

You better be continually getting better as long as you are sitting in rooms like this. I am not doing my job if I’m not pointing that out.

You guys that have been here and know what it’s about: we expect you to be significantly better.

You may be a young guy and we might have tolerated mental errors a year ago. But we’ll have less tolerance for that moving forward.

It’s just a reasonable expectation, so let’s just be really transparent about expectations in this business, about how competitive it is.

I never want you worrying about people on the outside or even the man sitting next to you.

This is a man-versus-himself battle. You have to be continually pressing to get better, with the understanding that this is a highly competitive line of work that we’re in.