I am in my car all the time. Throughout the year I put about 30,000 miles on my car traveling for basketball events and until recently it was a decision between music and phone conversations.
I’ve been doing workouts 30 minutes away from home at which start at 6AM so I’m up at 5 and there is no one awake to speak to.
So one day I decided to download a couple of Kevin Eastman’s free podcasts available on his website. It was short, but it was so much better than listening to morning talk shows or music. This led me to download an audio book featuring 15 hours Zig Ziglar and Jim Rohn. I can’t remember which one of them it was, but they mentioned how much time you spend wasting in your car. He said everyday he gets in his car and attends automobile university on his way to work, meetings, etc.
The real reason that inspired this blog is that I recently came across a new magazine that I never knew existed. I have been a subscriber to Entrepreneur for about 4 years now, but the other day was walking past Barnes and Noble where I caught Jim Collins on a cover of a magazine called Success. If you want to read more about the magazine just click through to their website, but the best thing about the subscription is that every magazine comes with a CD with audio interviews. Each month features about an hour with John Maxwell, Jim Rohn and usually 2 to 3 other business leaders who focus on one topic. So far the 2 topics have been Leadership and Innovation. If you don’t have time to read books Success magazine is a great resource with short articles, book summaries and of course, the leadership interviews.
If you have an average drive of 30 minutes a day, that’s 150 minutes a week or 2.5 hours that you spend in the car. That’s 125 hours per year that you can be filling up your mental factory. How are you supposed to face each day with a positive attitude if you are reading the news about the wars, economy and crime? The way you think is affected by what you put into your mind. What you read, watch and listen to drastically affects your thinking.
“Our lives are most affected by the way we think they are – not the way they are,” Jim Rohn.
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The founder of Mike Lee Basketball Services (formerly Playmakers Basketball), Mike is known throughout the country for individual player skill development. He has been a speaker at several events and has also recently authored several instructional workout DVDs, which will be released over the next year. Titles out right now include, 25 Killer Scoring Moves, Secrets of Unstoppable Guard Play Vol. I & 2. and Secrets of Unstoppable Shooting. Since 2006 Mike Lee Basketball has trained over 5,600 boys and girls through their skill development programs. Dozens of players that Mike has worked with have gone on to play collegiate basketball, some at the NCAA DI level. In addition to his own basketball services, Mike is a Nike Girls Skills Trainer and a member of the Nike sponsored, Ganon Baker Basketball.
From 2001-2006, Mike participated as a player and assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. During the fall of 2006 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Coach K and Duke University Leadership Conference in Durham, NC. In December of 2006 he graduated from the University of Wiconsin-Stout with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a self-planned concentration in Basketball Entrepreneurship.
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