Whether people doubt you whether people
Think you're crazy. It doesn't matter what matters most is that you follow your heart
And you follow your dream and see where that takes you so my name is Nick Humphries. I'm 24 years old
I'm from Canberra Australia the creator of the hundred-day a challenge I left
Australia quit my job left all my family and friends behind I decided to chase my dream of becoming a professional footballer in 100 days
today guys and girls
I'm speaking to a guy who did what a lot of you guys can only dream about you put everything on the line
To try and become a pro in a hundred days Nick from train effective get in here
And we're talking to see you get out you welcome to the Danish cold now. We're gonna
Talk a bit about your move in order to try to become a pro in a hundred days. Let's do it
But where did you play your football football for me will always just something like fun
You know just for fun with friends on the school grounds
And it wasn't until I was 16 years old where I started taking it really seriously
So I read this self-help book once and I stumbled on things like the 10,000 hour rule
It's 10,000 hours of deliberate practice will make you world class in any field
I took this rule to heart started training 20 hours a week and
I've went from basically a local amateur school player to training with the Australian national team getting scholarship offers to the u.s.
Training with lots of professional teams, so I've been on this long long journey
And it accumulated with 100 day challenge
The first 50 days was preparation the last 50 days with execution so those
50 first days did everything to prepare running fitness
One two three sessions a day just doing everything I could so the end of 40-50 days
I would have the same fitness
technique physicalities as a pro would or should have
The next 50 days, the last 50 days was about the execution
It was finding trials, open trials, opportunities using everything from
Linkedin to google searches to find tryouts agents
Everything I could what the real first step is what what people don't do is this actually take the step of deciding
I'm gonna do it
I'm gonna do it nuts the first step me deciding that I was gonna go and do this hundred a challenge
I said I don't want to be a hundred years old on my my deathbed
Thinking about the things that I didn't do and that's what I wanted to be all about just
Going all-in into something and going with all your heart all your might and seeing where that takes
I think all of us have dreams and every single well every single one of us have dreams
It's just we don't make the decision to go do it and that's what I wanted 100 day challenge
To be about
What was your goal of what do you kind of want to push this to?
One minute of professional football okay anywhere in the world didn't matter
I think what too many players do is complicate things and say I want to play in the Premier League
Or I want to play in a World Cup problem
those things are pretty daunting when you think about all the
Steps it takes it to get there and all the time it takes
And how few people actually get there
To go and play there
go do you. Go follow your heart, go follow your dreams and see where that takes you the biggest risk
Is not doing it.
The best
Experience was waking up every day with the mission
And it gives you a tremendous amount of energy the second thing I'd say is just comments
And not the negative comments, but the comments of people that said hey Nick
I watched 100 a challenge and
I made someone so team and just messages like that messages of encouragement and support and knowing that I could inspire some people
That's that's an amazing feeling okay, so you might not have made it in a hundred days
But you're still you're still chasing your dream. Aren't you yeah?
it's not over and I'm trying to think about what the next step is from now just because
While in that hundred days I saw things so things in football that I don't like that the politics this live ego
There's a lot of
Kind of corruption a lot of people taking money from from people's pockets in the most negative sense
Becoming a pro isn't just like hard work hard work hard work. It also takes money to start earning
Yeah, money when you go all into something you gotta go in not just emotionally not just physically
but sometimes financially as well and
Here's the thing about following your heart. I followed my heart that way, and it just it just I saw more of the
Kind of negative parts of football which I really didn't like so with something like train effective. I'm really trying to
Bring something new and different now and even set up something which will give players
Second chances or a platform to really display their skills in the most positive genuine way so this whole
experience with the hundred day challenge
Drove you into
Creating train effective to help other people in achieving their dreams. Yep. Tell us move on so me growing up in Australia
I would play with a decent team
Maybe I train twice a week with a volunteer coach or something like that, but I always think to myself
You know how can I train like a professional? What did?
Was doing and that led me to create trained effective where you can basically train like a professional time anywhere
workouts drills
Tactical analysis videos everything you basically get in a professional academy environment online
I still see myself as a player that can still go far even on my age. I still believe that I shouldn't give up
And that's what my heart says, so we'll see okay guys so the key takeaway here
Is that no Nick might not have made it as a pro in a hundred days
But that's not a reason to quit you should never give up you should keep working hard be
Persistence have patience and who knows you might pay off in the end follow your heart. See where it takes you exactly
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in hope of becoming a professional football player
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