JKLTip Shift your thinking about pursuit of a goal to small steps back and forth, but net gains overall
All About Field Position ?
Super Bowl Sunday has me thinking of something important to winning on the field, but winning in life too. I would be willing to bet that a pet peeve for people who have worked with me might be that I use too many sports analogies. We’re a product of our environment and what we know, but I think I get a pass here, because it’s Super Bowl Sunday, so we can learn about the game, but equally about life
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Key to winning in football is “All About Field Position”. So there are 20 plus coaches, 50 players, a whole lot of fans and playbooks that make the Bible look like a pocket book, but amidst all the chaos, it’s a simple scenario. It’s all about moving inch by inch toward your goal, with some little breaks in between. What it looks like on the field, let’s say you start at your own 40, you advance 20 yards until you are stopped, you hope that set back is only a loss of 10 yards, and there for a net of +10. There are shifts in momentum and breaks in luck, some for you, some against
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We take resilient steps forward, backward, forward, backward. This is how the game works, do this more than your competition and you win.
Football is a game of inches, the margins can be so tiny, literally every play can be death defying and there is only one winner. Here’s some good news, life is way easier! In life, school, business, fitness, there’s plenty of room for everyone to succeed, we can work together, and not only are there second chances, there are as many as you need
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Either way, both in football and in life, what you hope is that with each step back, we take a greater one forward