The Miracle of Self Discipline

Smile everyday
You'll thank me for the advice
That I can promise

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This book is by Brian Tracy and I highly recommend it, as it helped me immensely as I transitioned into the working world. Tracy is a sincere and very knowledgeable person. His ideas really stuck with me unlike some other authors I've been listening to recently.

The biggest takeaways from this book for me were making to do lists, and executing said lists. "Eat that Frog" (another book by Tracy) is essentially just a more in depth book about to do lists and that review is forthcoming. You can really get much more done by planning out your day and executing your plan in the order that you planned. There is a crazy amount of satisfaction on the days when my whole to do list is green rather than the days when even one thing is red.

He gives a very specific way of writing your goals out that has been super helpful for me and I use it at work every day.
A - top priority, if you don't do it, you will suffer
B - medium priority, things you should do but they aren't essential
C - low priority, things you want to do but by no means have to do
D - delegate, things you can delegate
E - eliminate, things you can eliminate

Within each lettered category, you rank your items by number as well. You may have 2 A tasks and 3 B tasks in a day. Never do a B task when an A task is still on the list. He talks about how 80% of your work is contained in 20% of your tasks. If you complete your A1, it will most likely mean you've gotten more done than if you had completed all your other tasks combined. This is where "Eat that Frog" comes in. Eat the biggest ugliest frog first thing, and everything else that day will seem like cake. Do your most complex, longest task first, and everything else will fall like dominoes. There is a terrible feeling in the pit of your stomach when you come in to work and know that you still have "that thing" sitting on your desk. Long tasks tend to hang over our heads and bog us down. But if we suck it up and eat the dang frog, then we gain a sense of accomplishment that propels us forwards and makes us even more productive later.

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Tournaments

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2010
Glory Days - Beyonce
 I was on the ground more than my feet > Get cleats

2011
College Centex - NUT
 I played like 5 points, and thought I broke my wrist on one of them.
Dev Sectionals - NUT B
 Freezing Rain.
Glory Days - Velociraptor
 Holterman had his hand torn open
Whitesmoke - NUT
 Bijan tore his ACL
No Wisconsequences - NUT
 Moody made me hate him forever

2012
Chicago Invite - NUT
 0-7
Huck Finn - NUT
 Lost in quarters to St Olaf after being up 9-4
Illinois Sectionals - NUT
 The Cheese Drop
Great Lakes Regionals - NUT
 Michigan was real good. The Illinois collapse
No Surf - Spoiler
 First club experience
Motown Throwdown - Spoiler
 Mike Schwenk sky'd Jesse for the game against Natives
Chicago Heavyweights - Spoiler
 Not memorable
Club Sectionals - Spoiler
 Vandervoort played with us, but hurt himself almost immediately
Glory Days - House Lannister
 Ben and Ian threw a lot of goals to each other
Michigan Outdoor - NUT
 First win vs Michigan
No Wisconsequences - NUT
 Sunday got rained out. First bagel too I believe. Also dropped a Callahan

2013
Cat Fight - NUT
 Fight #1 w/Indiana
Huck Finn - NUT
 Swamp game vs Illinois
Chicago Invite - NUT
 Only time I've given up in Ultimate
Illinois Sectionals - NUT
 We lost to Loyola
Great Lakes Regionals - NUT
 Hyper-extended my knee. Fight #2 w/Indiana > cost me captainship (I believe)
MUDI - Mad Men
 I like playing with NUT better
Cooler Classic - Mad Men
 Played a game w/Salvage as well. Drank with J-Pans
Chicago Heavyweights - Mad Men
 Brought in Kyle, Ming, and Dan
Club Sectionals - Mad Men
 Beat H1N1, but lost to Male Men.
Black Penguin - Taco Bell
 I got mad at Jack, Yiding, and Ben for the way they ran their split-squad
Glory Days - Galactic Empire
 Only played Sunday > Lost to Michigan
Steel City Showdown - NUT
 I was worthless at this tournament

2014
Red Eye - NUTHOS
 This was a blast. Walker is awesome
Warm-Up: A Florida Affair - NUT
 Most fun at a tournament ever
Cincinnati Round Robin - NUT
 Everything else got cancelled on us. Beat Michigan.
Last Call - Yolo Swaggins University Alumni aka Vince Carter's Top 100 Dunks
 First Tournament Win. Incredibly fun.
Illinois Sectionals - NUT
 Tore my MCL
Great Lakes Regionals - NUT
 Felt entirely helpless all weekend
Down with the Clown - Black Market
 First time playing after MCL tear. Wasn't good
Wildwood - Etown-Boomtown
 Played lefty because of my torn UCL. First sighting of OTPJP
Glory Days - Tune Squad
 First tournament as Captain
Cincinnati Invite - Purple Cobras
 20 or so people dropped at the last minute. Tourney was a waste.
Steel City Showdown - NUT
 Pretty good showing considering what we lost from 2014. Fell in love with the blade. Got sky'd by  Johnny for the game in the quarters.

2015
Warm-Up: A Florida Affair - NUT
 Stayed at the Sahaj-Mahal. First time cutting. So many injuries. Disaster in terms of results.  Youngens grew a ton

Midwest Throwdown - NUT
 Bruns says Ding and I botched the game vs ND. I concur. 

College Easterns - NUT
 Hardest Tournament of my life so far. Have never been more anxious or scared in my life.

Illinois Sectionals - NUT
 Second tournament win. Felt great to earn that. We killed Illinois

Great Lakes Regionals - NUT
 Sprained my ankle playing IM soccer > was at maybe 70%. Lost to MSU, and Michigan (quarters  was best game of the tourney > Illinois gets free ride to Nationals)

San Diego Slammer - Madison Club
 Third Tournament win. First elite Club experience.

Sandblast - Etown-Boomtown
 Drunk for ~48 straight hours

Elite-Select Challenge - Madison Club
 Had a very tough time transitioning to this new team

Bro Flight Finale - Madison Club
 Got to play the Buzz Bullets

Club Sectionals - Madison Club
 Waste of a weekend.

North Central Club Regionals - Madison Club
 Didn't play much. Only two games that were difficult

Club Nationals - Madison Club
 First Nationals. Could've been Pro Flight. Didn't deserve it.

Chicago Invite - Yolo Swaggins University Alumni aka Farmer Boone
 Yolo Swaggins Univeristy Alumnus' 2nd Tourney Win. Incredibly fun.

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