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Never Give Up Day! Here we are and back for another big moment this reminds me of. Now, by the end of this I hope you think of your own moments, and if you do, please leave a comment with it on my Facebook or send me an email alleckna.matthias.century21.ca . Now let’s get right to it.
The Moment:
Have you ever had a defining moment in your life but not realized it until years later. For me this was one that can be encapsulated by my high-school yearbook quote. “Basketball is important but it is not of greatest paramount”. To understand why I wrote this, I will start a few years earlier, in Grade 9 to be exact.
Back at that time, I was a small kid who thought he was great at basketball. Though I really shouldn’t have complained about sitting on the bench. Fast forward to the summer after that season. I realized that outside of my summer job, I had hours where I could do nothing or I could get to work. I committed to do everything to get better for 6 hours a day. Sometimes that was going for a run other times it was working on layups or free throws for 3 or 4 hours. Eventually, the grade 10 season rolled around and I realized I still wasn’t able to beat my teammates 1 on 1. Even after all the hours of work I still wasn’t good enough. A lesson I learned was that of Never Giving Up and that there are 2 distinct options when you fail.
Two Options:
Those two options are;1.Give Up.2.Never Give Up and become the very best you can no matter how much hard work it takes. I chose the second one and also met someone who would change my life forever. I met Joe Mauro, gym teacher and the coach of the Senior Varsity basketball team at Chilliwack Secondary School. At first, Joe looked at me like anyone does when they see the short kid who can barely score a layup. Yet he still mentioned that some of the Senior Varsity team would practice in the early mornings before school. I took this as an invitation and decided to show up just after 6am the next day. Of course, I think he meant 7am because I waited that morning till the janitor let me in.
Figuring Things Out:
In the days after, I slowly got to know that others would show up once or twice a week, but nobody else showed up every day. I decided to show up every day and work on the most basic parts of the game for the first hour. To ask the janitor to let me in at 6:30 so I could spend a full 2 hours in the gym before class. The second hour, when others would show up would involve 1 on 1 and testing everything I had just worked on.
As the grade 10 season came and neared the end we had a tournament on Vancouver Island. At that tournament we ended up playing a team that we thought we couldn’t beat, but nearing the end we were in a very close game, one that came down to the last 30 seconds. In those last 30 seconds, we were down by 1 and when we inbounded the ball it ended up in my hands, admittedly by accident, sorry for the bad screen B.I. After which I drove to the hoop and ended up getting fouled. This was the moment that all those boring 6:30am free throws paid off. I hit both shots and with 15 seconds left for the other team to score, I blocked there players shot and sent the ball back down the court for the win.
Only The Beginning:
From that moment I realized one lesson I had learned, choosing to Never Give Up is only the beginning. That’s when the hard work starts. It takes tireless mornings and someday like me you too may have Joe Mauro telling you “Matthias, you work way harder than your brother Josiah did”. It only took a few hundred mornings to get to those words. A few hundred more for people to wonder if I was now better than my small-town famous brother.
Real Estate
When it comes to your next Investment Property, Dream Home or the sale of your Real Estate. One guarantee is, I will Never Give Up! No matter how tough or slow the market gets. If you tell me your priorities, I will do everything I can to write the perfect game plan and negotiate the “Perfect Deal” just for you.
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