Jeremy Guthrie

And that can be done through faith in him, through repentance, through baptism and living, you know, committing yourself to God and Jesus Christ.

Yet your success was not going to be measured by how often that happened because of your hard work and the work that you did with God.

Your success was going to be defined by your effort to fulfill your purpose.

And so you were doing one thing, trying to measure it one way, yet your success was going to be measured a totally different way.

And it had helped me learn something I had learned in high school

which was the definition of success defined by John Wooden, the legendary college basketball coach.

And he said, of course, that success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of the self-satisfaction that you have in making the best effort you can to become the best you're capable of becoming.

And so I learned that.

I learned that I can control my effort, my focus,

my enthusiasm, my resiliency.

And when I do that, I can feel successful.

And that lesson has paid off in life.

It has paid off in baseball.

It's paid off in every aspect.

And I learned it in a really powerful and unique way as a 19 and 20 year old.

walking around the streets of Spain, attempting to share a message of Jesus with all who would listen, which frankly was very, very few people in 24 months.

I spent most of my time talking to people that had other things, that had jobs or kids or were in a hurry to go somewhere.

And so had I defined my success by, am I making an impact, a visible impact in someone's life?

I probably would have felt really dejected, but I came home with a new definition of what success is.

And it was ingrained in my heart.