Someone walked into Don Baylor's office to tell him he was on the hot seat. I was sitting right there. I was his hitting coach in Colorado, during one of the roughest stretches of our season. We were going over the lineup when it happened. Don looked up and said, "The only time my seat's been hot is when I've let it be hot. My focus is to do my job, not worry about my job." I never forgot that. Years later, I heard almost the same words from Bobby Cox. Then again from Joe Torre. Different clubhouses, three Hall of Fame-caliber baseball minds, the same lesson. Worrying about losing a job doesn't make you better at keeping it. It just splits your attention between the work in front of you and an outcome you can't control. I've been let go three times in this game. Every time, the work I'd already put in was still real. It just wasn't up to me whether it was enough to stay. So I stopped trying to manage the outcome and just started managing the day. Show up, do the job that's in front of you, and let the rest take care of itself. Do the job. Don't worry about the job. @Rockies