Get Off the Bench - S2E12

Ready to stop watching from the sidelines? Coach Mikki delivers a powerful wake-up call about the dangers of waiting for the "perfect moment" to pursue your dreams. With straight-talking wisdom, this episode tackles the uncomfortable truth that no touchdowns are ever scored while sitting on the bench.

We all fall into the trap of hesitation, waiting for the right time, the perfect opportunity, or until we feel "good enough." But as Coach Mikki reminds us, these are just mental barriers we create. The reality? There's no such thing as perfect timing. Everyone who's ever accomplished anything meaningful had to start somewhere, often with shaky, uncertain first steps.

This episode reframes failure as simply "the first attempt in learning" and challenges the negative "what if?" questions that keep us paralyzed. What if you succeed beyond your wildest dreams? What if taking action opens doors you never knew existed? The only way to discover these possibilities is to get in the game.

The most empowering message comes in recognizing that your unique path can only be walked by you. No one, not family, friends, or mentors. can do the work required to achieve your specific goals. Small, consistent actions compound over time, creating momentum that transforms into extraordinary results.

Ready to stop watching life happen around you? Listen now and discover how to silence the doubts, embrace imperfection, and take that crucial first step toward the life you truly want. As Coach Mikki says, "Start strong, finish strong, and dominate everything in between."

Chapters

• 0:46 Get Off the Bench
• 1:42 Starting Is Never Easy
• 2:29 Embracing Mistakes as Learning
• 3:55 What If It Works?
• 5:15 Make Your Life Extraordinary

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:31

Okay, come on, bring it in.

Speaker 1: 0:33

Bring it in. Listen up. Listen up. No touchdowns are ever scored when you sit on the bench and a lot of times we sit on the bench waiting, waiting to go in, waiting to see if it's our time, waiting if it's the right play, waiting if we feel good enough. And I can tell you right now nothing's ever going to happen if you sit on the bench. You have to get up every single day and do something that is going to get you closer to your goal. When we sit and wait for things to happen, things are going to happen. They're still going to happen around you. Time doesn't stop. But when we are waiting, based on hesitating or fear or thinking that maybe we're not ready or we're not good enough, things are going to keep happening, whether you're part of it or not. It's just a matter of when you decide to take that time, to step out there and do it.

Speaker 1: 1:27

Things are never easy from the beginning. Everybody, everybody that's ever walked this planet, has had to start somewhere. They've had to take that first step, they've had to make that first phone call, they've had to write that first email just to be able to take one step closer to whatever goal that they want to accomplish. Now, I know that sometimes isn't easy, because we're always waiting for the right time and the right availability and I can tell you sometimes it won't ever come. It's not going to come. There's no such thing as perfection. There's never going to be a perfect time. There's never going to be that perfect opportunity. It's going to always going to have to be something where you just take the risk and you go and do it and don't worry about the mistakes.

Speaker 1: 2:08

I mean, everybody makes mistakes. You know, I was just talking on a podcast and I was telling them when they said, well, what about what happens when you make a mistake? Well, okay, so everybody does. And I look at it like this you know, like in Hollywood they've got mistakes where it's like okay, you know, it's a do over, it's a mistake, you know it's the same thing as a mistake, it's a mistake. And they start from square one. They start, they say go back to one. Well, it's the same thing with us. So what if you make a mistake? You just go back to one and you start over again and then learn from it, figure out what didn't work, why didn't it happen? Why was it something that you needed to adjust, or maybe make a different observation about it, or maybe look at it from a different and then just keep moving forward. It doesn't mean this is a place to stop when we allow fear to also get in the way of getting off the bench. It also does, as it holds us prisoner. You know, fear is not something that is easily to get over, but it also was something that you have to recognize.

Speaker 1: 3:17

I always say that fear or failure, fail, is the first attempt in learning, and when we fail, we should be able to go okay, what worked, what didn't work and what do I need to do differently. You have to take the things that are happening with the things that you want to do and you have to decide what's more of a priority the things that you want and the passion that you have, and knowing that within every fiber of your being, you already have what it takes to get you there. You just have to take the steps to do it. Shut out all the noise, stop listening to all the opinions, stop listening to the little voices in your head that are telling you maybe I can't.

Speaker 1: 4:01

What if? What if this happens? What if that happens? What if this doesn't work? Well, what if it does? What if it does work? What if it's better than you thought? What if you go out there the first time and just totally rock it? What if, all of a sudden, it's better than you had even ever anticipated? What if you open up a door that you had no idea was even there and it leads to something better?

Speaker 1: 4:26

But you're never going to know that unless you get off the bench and unless you take the first step, and unless you decide that today's the day that you're going to do everything you want to do to be able to move forward and be extraordinary in your own life. So get up off the bench, go do something for yourself. Everything you do each and every day is going to compound into something exciting, and you're going to look back a year from now and go oh my gosh, every little thing I did brought me to where I am today, and believe in yourself. Believe that you've got this. You know you've got things that you are only you can do. I can't do them for you, your family can't do them for you, your friends can't do them for you. Everything you want in your life, only you can do. So get up off the bench and go. Take that one step and go make your life extraordinary. Start strong and finish strong and dominate everything in between. I'm Coach Mickey, let's go.