Welcome to the Bo Eason blog post, you ready? Have you ever seen anybody get arrested while doing a blog post? This might be the first time. So follow me, follow me—this is not my house. This is my neighbor’s house. Follow me. Let’s go. You ready? So we’re sneaking in the back. If you hear sirens, just ignore it.
There’s a very specific reason that we’re sneaking into somebody’s house and that reason is partnership. The partnership is of the little boy who lives here, whose name is Ricky, and my son Axel. Ricky is 10. Axel is 8. They’ve been best friends for about 2 ½ or 3 years. They’ve done everything together. They train together. They play together. They started training with the same coach together in basketball. And on this very court that we’re on here today, they spend hour after hour after hour battling each other, working on drills, supporting each other—they have a true partnership.
Sometimes I go train early in the morning, like 5 or 6, and I do my dynamic warm-up and activate my biochemical cascade. Ricky and Axel come with me and train with me. They have a basketball trainer. They’re actually on the same basketball team with A.J. Moye as their coach, who’s a very famous pro basketball player. They have this strong, strong bond and this strong partnership. They keep each other accountable. When one doesn’t want to train, the other one does want to train. When one is too thirsty to work and too tired, the other one supports him and makes him go. So when one is weak, the other one is strong. And that’s what you call a good marriage. That is a good partnership. It’s the only way to make your dreams come true. It’s very difficult to do it by yourself. Like the saying goes, “nobody wins alone.”
So Ricky and Axel have this great relationship. But listen to this, this summer, Ricky and Axel for the first time went to sleep-away camp and it was in Santa Barbara. Now these kids are pretty young to be sleeping away, right, they’re 8 and 10. It was the Michael Jordan Basketball Camp—850 kids. Axel and Ricky were a little bit nervous, but they stayed strong for each other and they slept there. Ricky and Axel get to be on the same team in this basketball camp, which is a big tournament where they’re playing all kinds of games with these 850 kids. Ricky and Axel’s team wins the championship. They have the best team—a lot to do with it were those two. Those two brought the team together, they played off each other really well and they encouraged each other. When one hit the ground, the other one helped him up—a true, true partnership. They win the championship. Ricky and Axel—check this out—get named to the Michael Jordan Basketball Camp All-Star team.
They picked five kids in this age group to be on the all-star team and those two not only won the championship, but they made the all-star team. I could not have been more proud. These kids work with such diligence and supporting each other the whole way. Sometimes they have to battle each other—like big brother, little brother—knocking each other over, fighting. But when my kids are here, when Axel is here, he’s being fed by Ricky’s family. When Ricky’s at our house, he’s being fed by our family. That is true partnership. It’s what you must have. You must go out and find that partner who assures your dreams will come true.
Think about this: my wife’s dreams are my responsibility. I’m the one who assures and promises that those dreams come true for her. Her job is to make my dreams come true and on it goes. My job is to make my kids’ dreams come true. Their job is to support my dreams and make them come true. This is the relationship between Ricky and Axel—nonstop training together to make these dreams come true. This is why when I tell you the stories of the first two roommates that I ever had in my life were both first-round draft picks, quarterbacks, into the NFL, my very first two roommates. My very first three roommates were NFL quarterbacks. How can that be? It can be because it’s a partnership and when one wants to do something, the other one goes, “I’m going too.” “I want to be a quarterback too” or “I want to be a NFL player too”—same with Ricky and Axel.
You’ve got to find this for yourself. Clean house. If you don’t have the right partner, find a real partner. You’ve got to have somebody who’s there and the promise is for them to make your dreams come true like what’s happening right here in this backyard. So we’re sitting here in this backyard where this partnership takes place over and over again for hours. Now let’s think 10, 12, even 20 years into the future. What’s going to become of these boys, Ricky and Axel? What kind of partnership will they have then? How high will they have gone by then? And we’ll all go, “Well, they’re just lucky.” No, they partnered well. You must partner well to make your dreams come true. You know how to do this, you’ve just got to get out there and do it. So be like Ricky and Axel. Partner well to assure your dreams come true.
