Discussion Questions
- Who has surfed?
- What do you LOVE to do? (Tom Brady’s love is football) Do you LOVE a sport? What do you love about it? WHEN, at what moment, did you fall in love with sports? Hate?
- What brings you the most joy with sports?
- What do pro athletes have to do to compete at the highest level? (
- The coldest practice. What was your WORST practice of your life?
- What are your motivations?
- The tunnel (state championship)
Quick Writing Prompts:
My Home: Tom Brady feels most “at home” on the field. His personalisty shines here and he feels confident in this setting. Describe your “home.” Where or what is your home? What setting are your most comfortable in?
Perspective: “When you are young, you don’t have perspective. You hit this point when I am not a kid anymore. Then you have a little more perspective. You know what is important. You know what is not important. I am not putting energy on what is not important. Even though other people determine it is important. I am going to determine what is important for me. Two more Super Bowls.” (2019)
What is most important to YOU right now? List 2-3 things that really matter to you. Describe their importance to you.
Time: The only thing that I believe limits us, is time. What do you want to do with this time? To see what is important. It is about priorities. What do we want to do with this time. What are the priorities?
Evaluate your time management skills. To you keep 1st things 1st? Do you devote the time you should to your top priorities?
My Motivations: “I know what my motivations are. It is not to satisfy others. It is to satisfy myself. If I am satisfied with myself. I am going to live a purposeful life. (Brady going deep! in your head not downfield)
Worst Practice: Belichick loves to practice in adverse weather. “The coldest day of practice of my life. It was surreal. I couldn’t feel the ball. Hands frozen.”
Chapter 5: The Spiritual Life (text)
What must it be like to run out an NFL tunnel?
What is Spirituality? The Whys of Life
Having these dreams and goals, miracles happening. I get to love that through sports.
The Tunnel: What would you like to experience for one moment? This would certainly be one, especially Super Bowl Tunnel.
Early Morning Mission:
Only in Costa Rica (8 weeks before the season opener)
I started 10 years ago (30 years old). A couple a times a year.
“I think in a lot of ways, surfing is like a metaphor for life. Your wasting all your energy and you get nothing accomplished. I want to paddle. In order to be good at it, you gotta go with it. You can’t fight the force of mother nature. You have to I think it is the hardest sport I have ever done…. Not an easy sport.”
Working out on Vacation: “No Days Off” In Costa Rica (working out, brought pads and helmet) How many passes has he thrown in his life.
Family Facetime: “I have never seen hims so busy.”
“You are always multi-tasking. He said he was only going to play for 10 years (2006). Football is his 1st love and his main love. It’s true.”
Family: rainbow cupcake all the pictures.
Football was my 1st love. I fell in love with the sport when I was 4 years, watching Joe Montana. I was able to build this relationship I would but (Kobe: Dear Basketball)
27 years of this sport (18 pros, 5 college, 4 high school). It is effortless because it is so synonymous with who I am. I can really be who I am. If I want to scream at somebody, I scream at somebody. It allows me to be who I am in a very authentic way.”
I have never meant.
“I still fell like I am on the last half. I feel like I am in the 1st half, I still feel like I am charging ahead. but it takes up a lot of my time.
The Decision to Retire: “When I am done playing I really do want to be able to support her. (a life partner); This career that will only last a short while longer. It’s not another 10 years.” (Uncomfortable.
Perspective: “When you are young, you don’t have perspective. You hit this point when I am not a kid anymore. Then you have a little more perspective. You know what is important. You know what is not important. I am not putting energy on what is not important. Even though other people determine it is important. I am going to determine what is important for me. Two more Super Bowls.” (2019)
Time: The only thing that I believe limits us, is time. What do you want to do with this time? To see what is important. It is about priorities. What do we want to do with this time. What are the priorities?
Saturday December 2, 2017
Face Time: Great accomodation
(Don’t Blink) Football season goes so fast. You did the Training Camp
Man it is only the 1st game of the year. Blink and it is Thanksgiving
Blink: The season is ending.
So, it is a marathon, but it goes so fast. I think we got something that is pretty special. This is when football season starts.
Week #14 Patriots 23 Bills 3
We are better than all these teams.
3rd down (Patriots are 0 for 8. I have not seen this. If New England loses it, they could go to #3 (Wild Card Loss due to losing to Miami in Week #16)
“I knew we were going to score.”
“Football is not about being perfect. Football is a game about mental toughness.”
“They went down, they made some great plays. I was thinking “How about an interception? Throw us one, Ben. Throw us one. “They went for the win and we made ’em pay! Still hard to believe we won that game. It was probably the most joy I had in a long time. I am tired.
Treatment at midnight. Try to stay on top of my body. That’s what it takes this time of year.
New Year’s Eve Patriots 12 – 3 Week #17 Patriots vs. Jets
It is hard to put it into perspective how historic this team is. (Patriot Dynasty)
Maserati “Not great. They are more vulnerable. It might be the fact they are short on weapons. Bottom line for me… Brady has played like dog – crap for the last month.” (Do you listen?)
Age Catches up with us: The never ending question.
Worst Practice: Belichick loves to practice in adverse weather. “The coldest day of practice of my life. It was surreal. I couldn’t feel the ball. Hands frozen.”
Banged Up: “You are always going to get banged up. You keep going. You keep playing. Physically, emotionally. All the injuries, but we are still playing better than everyone else. It is pretty cool to get to the end and still be playing.”
Alex Guerrero & Sports Talk (TB 12 Sports): Alex Tommy’s Guru (signed book): He has unconventional Alex has been a huge reason why I am still playing at 40. “Being a public figure and having people say something. It bothered me a long time ago. Now I have healthy boundaries. I am OK with that. I am not going to defend everything.”
I live the life I want to live. Are there times I am frustrated. I don’t want to go into that mud every day. Once to engage, I have to reengage. I don’t like fighting that creates inner conflict in me. I do need to protect myself. I don’t get to be who I want to be.”
MVP Debate (2017): Brady MVPs He is a 40 year old man doing what 20 year olds only dream of doing.
“Does the MVP matter to you at all?” Not really. Super Bowl MVP.
Motivations: “I know what my motivations are. It is not to satisfy others. It is to satisfy myself. If I am satisfied with myself. I am going to live a purposeful life. I want to create change and positivity in a big way. People will find negative things to say about that – Absolutely. I am just going to keep charting my own course.”
YIKES!
Last regular season game. The fans -2 wind chill. 14 MPH winds.
Patriots 26 Jets 6
Ride home. Look at the Moon.
You know, Another year’s passed. To be 13 – 3 and a #1 seed. We really did get the best out of each other this year. I am really happy to see where we can.
New’ Year’s Resolutions (Bucket List): All the things we want to let go we offer it to the fire. put in the fire. The Car Ride
Mediate for an hour on that? “We will see how we do.”
For him being on the field and being in the moment is like meditation. He is fully present in the moment. In the here and now. That is what I know he loves the most about the game.
My First Love: Your 1st love is your 1st love. I want to keep proving to myself that I should’ve could’vd
That is probably a life-long quest for me. When I can’t do it anymore, whether physically, which I doubt. more mentally. It is not going to be for a while, now.