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Message #98 - Don't Just Stand There... MYA (MOVE YOUR A#%)!

Lee Kemp | Profile
February 8, 2010

Dr. Rob Gilbert, Leading Sports Psychologist, coined the phrase GOYA (Get off your A#%). I'm coining the phase MOVE YOUR A#%.

Get up and start Moving... Not just anywhere... But Move in the direction of your GOALS.

YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU WANT.. Right!

Once You Know that... START MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION. Take a first step... then another... then another. You've heard the saying... if you stumble and fall... Stumble and fall forward. NEVER BACKWARD. Fight hard not to go backward.

For those of you that trade stocks. it's like setting a trailing STOP after you've made some gains. If your stops are tight and continually adjusted upward you can never lose what you've gained.

Set trailing stops in LIFE!

What are we really saying... By moving your a#% you are creating a ACTION. When you create a action you are doing something.

Here's the golden nugget... YOU CAN ALWAYS (without exception) CONTROL YOUR ACTIONS... AND YOUR ACTIONS ARE INDEPENDENT OF YOUR FEELINGS, EMOTIONS OR THOUGHTS.

The trick is to make your actions move towards your goals, Remember this is independent of how you feel. Example - doing something you don't like.. but you know it is moving you in the direction you want. i.e., studying, lifting weights, working that 2nd job to pay for night school, or while in grammar school that job after school to pay for J Robinson's intensive camp, etc.

It is by far easier to control and change you what you DO (i.e., your actions), than it is to control and change your feelings, emotions or thoughts.

Successful people act even when they don't really want to. They take the feelings and emotions out of the equation. They consistently live by GOYA and MYA.
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T Goat   February 9 at 10:41pm
Red Dog...good post, BUT one clarification. Yes, Kemp went to HS in Ohio. But make no mistake...Kemp was a WISCONSIN BADGER!!
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Red Dog   February 9 at 2:20pm
Great words from one of the GREATEST wrestlers in history (and best yet, Coach Kemp is an Ohio product, Chardon I believe!). I especially LOVE the final statement in taking emotions and feelings out of the equation. Never have better words been spoken (or in this case, typed). I have seen entirely too many athletes talk themselves right out of hard work. I always tell kids not to sit around thinking about going for that 5 mile run or lifting weights for 1½ hours or putting in time at the track in the hot summer months doing sprints, just MYA and DO IT! Thank you as always Coach for the words of wisdom, we will surely be better people for them.

On a side note, fantastic job doing the commentating on the Big Ten Wrestling Network's OSU vs UM match last week, you did GREAT! I was waiting for you to slip up and let out a big HOORAY FOR THE SCARLET & GRAY or WAY TO GO BUCKEYES, DOWN WITH OLD BLUE! But you kept your emotions in check and didn't lose it as I was hoping you would.
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randy8   February 9 at 9:55am
Coach Kemp, if you read this you need to write an autobiography with all your words of wisdom included. You are the Lou Holtz of wrestling.
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Noel Thompson   February 9 at 8:23am
I love the stock analogy. Great words of wisdom from the best.
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Anonymous Coward   February 9 at 7:17am
Give Only Your All and Move Your Ass.
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Huh!?!   February 9 at 6:49am
GOYA and MYA??? A little help, please...
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Connor Dressel   February 8 at 11:58pm
TRUE THAT ALWAYS MOVE FORWARD
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