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Tim Grover is the personal trainer of choice by the majority of the NBA. Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade all sing his praises for taking them from “good” to “great”.

Grover’s book Relentless centers around the idea that relentlessness is “engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.”

In any given field, a skill set will only get you so far. It is a mindset that will truly put you ahead of the competition. In sports Grover’s mantra was “you have to be strong from the neck up in order to be strong from the neck down.”

In sports (and really on every team of every type) there are 3 kinds of people: Cleaners, closers and coolers. Coolers are those who do only what is expected of them and no more. Closers are those who go above and beyond in most circumstances. Cleaners achieve exceptional results

These three also differ in whom their results benefit. Coolers aren’t concerned with winning, but rather with their own comfort. Closers are concerned with winning but only to pat themselves on the back and get recognition. Closers win in order to bring the entire team success re

Being relentless also means not allowing other people’s work to drag down the team. Those who are truly dedicated will raise the level of everyone involved. These types force the best out of everyone around them as well by inspiration, expectation and any means necessary.

The key to Cleaners is the “Don’t Think” stage. That is when their skills, experience and confidence has them at a point where they will achieve exceptional results without even thinking about it. They will get the end result they pursue no matter what stands in their way.

The key is to view perfection as your only goal. It’s not about competition. Getting to the best on your team, the best in your office, the best in your field - these are all achievable. Being relentless means chasing the ever moving target of perfection and single mindedly seeki

Relentlessness is essentially obsession. It is solely focused on achieving a single goal at the expense of everything else. It is sacrificing all else for the single goal at hand. Both a CEO and a stellar point guard have something in common - an inner drive that fuels everything

Even if you can’t play basketball like MJ or D. Wade, you can adopt their winner’s mentality into whatever it is you are striving to achieve. By doing so you will take your efforts from good, to great, to unstoppable.