Open Gym

"Open Gym" is an expression you might be familiar with if you participate or engage in the game of basketball. It means precisely that - an open gym, as in the gym is open to players. It often refers to structure of the gym time for young players in that there is very little organization from coaches or supervisors. The gym is open for pickup games or shooting or working on your individual game. In your professional life, do you have a place like an "open gym"? Do you have an open gym to strengthen your professional skills? Do you have a marketing skills & techniques 'open gym'? How do you work the depth of your skills and talents? How do you enrich your career and strengthen your talents?
Find your open gym. And when you do, please don't waste your time there. It pains me to watch young basketball players that take the time to show up at an open gym and then simply screw around & have no desire to compete & compete with a sense of urgency...to play hard and work on their games. It's much easier to have "fun"...rolling around smiling and socializing. There is a place and time for fun, but if you'd like to play basketball at a high level, please don't waste your time in an open gym. There are fewer and fewer opportunities to have access to an open gym. Don't show up at practice in the fall - and ask the coach to make you better. It doesn't work that way. Life doesn't work that way. I'm not going to today's meeting and ask the folks in the room to make me a better presenter or video storyteller. That individual work comes before the meeting; by myself, alone late at night or at 6am - at my 'open gym'. Compete hard, and work your game - work your individual skills NOW, so that when gametime comes - or the season begins, you will be prepared. My wonderful high school coach and mentor, Coach Shields, used to always say, "basketball players are made in the summer - teams in the winter". Find your summer workout now - and get after it.