The late, legendary Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball coach Pat Summit, when sharing the influence of Coach Don Meyer on her life, made special mention of Coach Meyer's “Three Big Rules”:

1. Everyone takes notes.
2. Everyone says please and thank you.
3. Everyone picks up the trash.

All three of these rules have both a literal and a mindset or mental application, and are simultaneously simple and profound. While all of the rules are significant and worth examining, I want to focus my final words of this book on the third rule. The literal application is obvious, of course: We should clean up after ourselves, respect our workspace, and pay attention to details. But the mental application is what is required for you to apply what you have learned in this book, and stick with it so that you can create the mindset and behaviors that will allow game changer status to dominate your life and make you become unstoppable.

“Everybody picks up the trash,” in essence, says, “I will do whatever it takes to make this happen. I will start earlier, go later, and do more in between; there's no job or role beneath me during the process, and I will hold nothing back.”

If you have followed through with each of the Mission Unstoppable exercises at the conclusions of the chapters in this book, then you have already started “picking up the trash”—doing whatever it takes—and it is essential that you leverage the momentum you have created.

However, if you skipped over them without taking action, both your sincerity and your commitment are in question. You have been entertained by this book, but nothing has really changed in your life as a result of what you have read in it. You are likely to continue your life as one of many, as just another ordinary head in a mediocre herd. Maybe you were looking for an easier way, or are not willing to give up your life of ease, or your excuses for what's held you back. Whatever. Here is just a thought, though: Before you go back to living your life talking like a big dog but walking like a pissant, before you persist in your shameful charade to become unstoppable, give this book to someone who is serious about changing his or her life. Heck, you will never miss it. All you did was go through it; you never got from it, anyhow. Your lack of action convicts you of complacency, so do the right thing and invest in someone who will do what is necessary to change his or her life. Fair enough?

However, if you have worked through the assignments and have begun assimilating the principles into your life, then you may have detected how each step reinforces the others—that there is a structured six-step process to follow to become unstoppable.

1. Once you clearly identify with what it is to be an unstoppable game changer, you have a specific standard to live up to each day.
2. Then, after you develop your WHY, you will naturally be more focused and more likely to stay in your zone.
3. Consequently, as you might expect, once your life has a clearer WHY and purpose, and you are more focused and in your zone daily, you will more consistently go A.P.E.—you will have a better attitude, more passion, and more enthusiasm. This, in turn, will augment your faith in the future and fuel more mental toughness for the journey.
4. As you then work to develop your personal philosophy, not only will you be in your zone more often, but your increased awareness will also nudge you to return faster if you depart.
5. Now it really gets good: With the ensuing surge of attitude, passion, enthusiasm, purpose, faith, and results, you will thirst for even more and leverage your momentum—leading you to developing a daily mindset discipline that renews your mind and transforms you, accelerating your results even further.
6. The big payoff is legacy, in that, as a natural result of your unstoppable mindset, behaviors, and results, you will make others wonder what you have, and inspire them to want what you have. This opens the door for you to have an impact on them with the power of your example, your knowledge, and your life.

And remember this: Becoming unstoppable is not a destination; it is a process. The day you think the journey is done is the day you begin to decline.

Enough said. Now go pick up the trash.