hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today's video is going to be on the seven
mistakes i made as a young athlete and we're going to start the video right now
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alright so this is going to be a tough video just because you know obviously going back and
thinking about uh the mistakes that i made you know i really want to make this video to be able
to hopefully help you guys out if you're watching this video and you're a young athlete and you are
able to get value out of this video please share it uh just because you know i think that there's
a lot of people that end up not realizing the opportunities that are right in front of them
and you know i know i made that mistake personally and so i want to just go over some of the mistakes
because you know i hope it can help you i've learned a lot from making mistakes and i've
also learned a lot from watching other people make mistakes or seeing other people make mistakes or
even hearing about other people's mistakes and because of that i think i was able to
progress in some ways a little bit faster and so um yeah today we're going to be going over seven
mistakes and stuff to kind of go through i was hoping to not have so many mistakes as i was going
through i almost ran out of like space i was like okay seven is enough i don't want you guys to be
bored by all the my my issues all of the mistakes that i made as a young athlete so first thing
that i did is i believed my own hype right and um this was my junior year i had a successful junior
year when i was in high school i started to have colleges interested in me um you know i was not
big i was not able to i was playing quarterback i was not able to throw the ball far i wasn't
fast i wasn't but you know i still believed my hype right i i thought that the world was much
smaller than it actually was um and you know just started having these colleges interested in me
and you know it just got to my head and so that would be you know that's i would say the biggest
mistake that i made it started to believe my own hype made it so i didn't work out as hard um i
i thought that i was a lot better than i actually was and it ended up biting me in you know the rear
end that is something that i you know really hope you guys do not do it's definitely a mistake that
i made and you know still to this day i look back and just think like what an idiot you know and i
hope you don't look back and and look at yourself when you were in high school and think the same
thing number two is i put popularity and you know other people and and what their influence was in
front of my own goals um as i got older i learned that you know i'm pisces and pisces are very um
selfless right so we do a lot of things for other people not always wanting to do things for
ourselves and that's even why i love doing this youtube channel um but you know that that ended
up being i didn't know that at the time that was something that i need to be more aware of now i'm
a little bit more aware of it and i do you know actively pursue things that you know i want to do
and that make me happy but at that time i wanted to be popular i wanted to fit in you know i wanted
to be cool and you know now and that defined me in a lot of ways you know um was being the cool guy
being able to you know have all the friends and uh you know chase the girls and all that type of
stuff so looking back on it again it was a mistake right i put the popularity of these people that
i really don't even have relationships now at 30 years old with at all right and now these people's
opinions of me mattered so much and i know at this time you know a lot of people you're naturally
inclined to really want to be popular and want to fit in and you know what i would just say is you
know i love it you know try to be the most popular best friend that you possibly can to people but
understand that your goals should be your priority where you want to go should be your priority
and don't put other things in front of that all right number three three thing is i prioritize
video games over working out um and studying right i think i'd be in a lot better position in a lot
different position if i would have spent more time studying and you know working out or working on my
body or trying to understand my body or trying to understand you know coverages watching film
things like that instead of playing so much call of duty right like all the call of duty that i
played in high school i don't use that at all now at 30 years old right so uh and while if i would
have worked out or if i would have studied more about my body i would be so much further ahead
now in you know at 30. so the point being is try not to put video games too far up on the list i
know they're entertaining i know they're fun but by the time you get into your 20s you're not going
to want to play video games anymore some people still are into video games and that's great but
uh a lot of people you know if you're going to be an adult take care of a family or run a business
or something like that you're really not going to have time for video games and so right now
you know utilizing that time to help you in you know studying or working out would be much more
effective and i think you know for me studying would have been great because i didn't have great
study habits in college so that really ended up being a i had to really work a lot on getting over
that you know issue that mistake that i made in not developing good study habits so i this
is a great opportunity for you to be able to learn great study habits for you to learn you
know how to move your body correctly and what are good stretches and also when you're playing
video games a lot of times you snack you eat bad foods you know there's a lot of things that are
not great about that number four i just didn't take care of my body right i would i would not
sleep as much i would put bad things in my body you know i mean nothing crazy alcohol
you know weed stuff like that um i would not always eat great you know the big thing is just
like you you when you work out a lot and you're putting a lot of time and energy and effort into
that and i was still working i don't want to make it seem like i wasn't working out i work out like
an hour and a half probably five hours a day and then i have like the weekend camps and
and uh things that i would do so you know i put a lot of time into and we'd do seven on sevens but
i didn't take care of my body as good as i could right i didn't always get seven to eight hours of
sleep i would have a sleeping schedule that was very variable right so my body wasn't
consistently getting the same sleep patterns i would eat at different times all the time
i would not always eat good foods and you know at the same time i'd expect to be able to improve
my strength and improve my speed and improved my power and that ended up you know not working out
it did i didn't get very very much uh more speed or more strength or more size right and i think
a lot of that has to do with how i was taking care of my body my body wasn't in a opportunity or in a
position to be able to grow and so you want to be aware of how much time you are taking every night
to sleep right put time away to be able to sleep i play so many video games but my brain would always
be so high functioning i wouldn't be able to sleep for very long and so make sure that you're aware
of you know that make don't stay up a lot being distracted by you know now you have their phone
as well either your phone video games whatever and then also eat well hydrate you know like i'm at 30
years old i feel better than i ever felt and it's because of how good i eat and how much water i
drink and what i consume on a daily basis and how i have a very consistent sleeping schedule like i
know that that ends up being such an important part if you can get that at 14 15 years old you're
gonna put yourself so much further ahead and so you know really focus on that really make that
a priority taking care of your body right like make sure that your goals and where you want to be
in five years is what you're doing all the time because if you could do that again
you're gonna separate yourself and i hope that you watching this put yourself in that opportunity
to or in that position to be able to separate yourself number five compared myself to others
i hear this a lot right where you know you go to a camp you're like oh yeah this guy was here he
wasn't that impressive or i was better than this guy or this guy's a four star and he does this
that you know i did this myself as well compared myself to others i'd go to camps i would say oh
yeah that guy's not that good blah blah blah blah but he's got an offer from here or he won this
and and all that doesn't matter right get the best out of today right for you again take care of your
body get the right amount of sleep study do great in school be a great person be disciplined and is
able to persevere and has mental toughness and as a leader and shows up on time for class and can
be depended on like those are the things that you got to develop now like that's what is important
if you start comparing yourself to another person there's no happiness in that there's no
gratification that comes from that gratification comes from discipline it comes from hard work it
comes from showing up every day and doing the things that you say you're going to do every
single day that's what it should be your number one thing that should be your number one concern
we can't control other people you can't if you could try to compare yourself to other people
then that's going to be how you know then you be become addicted to superficial gratification
right like that's not the way to live in my opinion right i i want to be able to
live a life of you know discipline and be somebody that can be accountable leader you know somebody
that is helpful and truthful and you know provides a platform to get great education for
people and and so that's what i focus on right i don't want to compare myself to other i get ideas
from other people and i get you know i learn from other people but i don't compare myself to others
number six did not utilize social media to build a following right when i was your guys's age
i could have started my youtube channel if i was starting my youtube channel in 2008 2009 who knows
where it would have been um but yeah use social media guys i mean it is only gonna get bigger
right i go and i'll look on people's profiles all the time and you know you have three posts
or five posts and you know this is something i probably should do more personally myself
gives me a little bit more motivation to do it but you know i'm always posting on my business profile
but the point is is that you want to be able to build a following you know start to get people
to see who you are and understand who you are and get to know your story and
get to know what you're all about because as time goes on you could only utilize that for
your game you know it's only going to be something that will help you only and make it so you can
have a stronger network a better network you know now i meet people all the time that they get jobs
because of their network and they have um you know great opportunities because of their understanding
of what's going on with social media and how to utilize the platforms to be able to build
a business or be able to you know better connect people or even make money for themselves right so
utilize social media right now don't spend a lot of time consuming it utilize it as a tool for you
to be able to you know connect with coaches and get more followers and and connect with other kids
in the area or connect with other people that play your position or whatever just utilize it
understand it start to be familiar with it number seven and you know this one ends up being one that
that hurt the most almost when i wrote it down it's lowered my targets right never lower your
targets guys keep your targets high whatever it is and first you got to have targets right
we're starting off the new year just in life you should have goals you should have things
that you're going towards so then you could show up every day with a degree of motivation of like
this is what i got to get done this is what i got to get accomplished this is what i'm going after
and so and then when you have those targets keep those targets if you want to be a division one
athlete if you want to be an nfl athlete if you want to be whatever the starting quarterback
that's going to be your target you know you've got to go after that every day relentlessly
that's where tom brady is tom brady because he's obsessed with it there's nothing that will give
him any degree of happiness the way that being a top you know winning a super bowl right that's why
he says the next one's my favorite ring because winning a super bowl and the demands that that
puts on him as an athlete is where the happiness comes from right and i think that there's a lot
of people here that are watching these videos if you're watching right now still for for sure
i know you're competitive i know you want to be great i know you want to achieve at
the highest level keep that same target but now you have to carry out the action that is going
to demand you to be able to get to that place right it's not going to be from all these other
things popularity is not going to get you there video games are not going to get you there eating
crappy foods not going to get you there comparing yourselves to others not going to get you to the
nfl you have to be obsessed with your vision your story where it is you're going to go your road
and make sure that that's something that is always at the top of your mind and is part of every
decision that you make every day and if you can start to do that and start making that your number
one priority then the chances of you becoming a nfl athlete become greater and greater and greater
but every single day that you get further away you know you don't take step towards your goals
you don't take steps towards accomplishing what it is that you want to accomplish your chances get
lower and lower and it's already really low for you right if you are 15 years old the likelihood
of you going and playing the nfl is very low and that's just the reality of the situation so
or the nba or the whatever mlb you know i played i played football so you know that's why i'm
giving a lot of football comparisons but anybody that's watching this that can get
any type of gain from it you know it doesn't matter what sport it is these mistakes that i made
will still apply so make sure that you keep whatever target whatever it is you want to
accomplish keep those targets keep chasing after them keep those dreams high and you know you'll
be able to get there so as always guys thanks for watching if you liked in the video go ahead and
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just to give you a little bit more about you know myself my mistakes some things that i did and just
you know try to help you guys out so hope you enjoyed the video and talk to you soon