You Stop You with Scott Rasmussen

Rod Carew was a professional MLB player who was one of just a handful of players to safely get a hit over 3,050 times during his Hall of Fame baseball career. We can be like him and "relish the hit" in our lives and build important attributes of consistency, character, trust, and expertise which will make us more valuable and helpful to others in business, family, social and other settings.

Learn about Gain and Gap. What is learned helplessness. Do not let a couple experiences stop you in your tracks. You have the power to get up again, you stop you.

Becoming a story teller may help someone else in life and yourself.

•   Put yourself in charge of executing: someone to remove roadblocks, measure success, report progress.
•   What is the result you want? 
•   What are the costs? 
•   Communicate with yourself. 
•   Put on your glasses, refocus on the result.
•   If you want it bad enough, you will find a way.

4 steps to smash fear

1.      Recognize fear

2.      Take the smallest action

3.      Go, Scott, Go

4.      If fear returns, go to step one again

5 truths to help you improve and the importance of Swing:

1.      You are stronger than you think.

2.      You have the power to change.

3.      The most important step of all is the first one.

4.      Focus on things you can do, not things you can not. 

5.      You can do anything for a short period of time.

6.      The importance of SWING – 1936 University of Washington men's rowing team.

• Treading water and going with the current
• Progress = Preparation + Sacrifice + Endurance + Perseverance 
• Don’t do the minimum each day, do more
• Courage is a decision 
• Your daily acts of courage

Tell your mind what you will do and it will begin to find solutions for you, it is how it works. Then act, do that homework, those dishes, that phone call. We are masters of moments, change artists.  Take action toward your goal. It can be tough, remember the story of -- which wolf to feed. With words and actions, be unstoppable.

1. Aligning requires you to be a MOM, a Master Of Moments.
2. When your desires are not great, train them. You are a trainer.
3. Use your MVP (minimum viable product) and get started.
4. Practice, practice, practice. Make course corrections as needed.
5. Do your best this week!

Learning to overcome obstacles from the lives of three individuals:

1. Bethany Hamilton. She had her arm bitten off by a shark. 
2. Stephen King.  His first novel was rejected 30 times. 
3. Benjamin Franklin.  He dropped out of school at age ten. 

You can make an impact in life, BUT the first impact must be on you, on yourself, and your belief that you can act. You CAN change. You CAN be unstoppable.