“What one man can do, another can do!”

Charles Morse – The Edge

My sons and I watched the movie, “The Edge”, with Anthony Hopkins, this past weekend.  We watch a lot of movies that help illustrate Mental Toughness and Peak Performance. Yes, my kids and I love the entertainment, but what I love more, is movies I can use as coaching tools.

The biggest take away from our  recent “guys night at the movies”, was that what one human being has done, any of us can do.  If you want to be a billionaire, it’s been done.  Millionaire? Done ad nauseam.  Just want to get out of debt and not struggle? Totally doable. People do it everyday.  (It you think the economy is so bad it can’t be done, scrape together some frequent flyer miles and visit The Strip in Vegas.  There is a lot of money still floating around, enough that 40 million folks spend $20 billion each year in that 3-mile stretch of roadway…just saying.)

Want to look like a fitness model on the cover of a magazine?  Already been done, and over done.  If someone on planet Earth, at some time in our entire history, has accomplished anything, than you can accomplish that same thing (only easier).

Easier? Yes, all you have to do, is do what the doer did. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel, as they say.  When I was early in my career on Capitol Hill, I ran into former Senate Leader Bob Dole, and he was joking with me.  He knew I was from South Carolina, Strom Thurmond’s state. Strom Thurmond was a bazillion years old and still going strong, back then.

I told Senator Dole he was looking fit and trim, especially for an old guy in his 70s.

“Hey Senator, what’s your secret?”

He said, “Andrew, I just do whatever Strom does.  If I look over, and he’s eating a banana, I eat a banana. If he takes a sip of water, I take a sip of water.”

We both enjoyed a hearty laugh. Fourteen years later, Bob Dole is 90 years old, Strom lived to be a 101. What one man can do, another can do!

Boo yah!!