Courtesy of USA Today
| It’s football season again! Time to begin cheering your favorite team. (For me, it is the Seahawks!) What can we all learn from our favorite teams? We may not be able to get out there on the field but a great team attitude is something we can all use. At times we are solely responsible for our own project or business even if we have a team of people we can call on.
Under those circumstances, we might get discouraged and want to quit. What does an athlete do when he doesn’t quite get that play right? He gets up and begins again. Many times life brings struggles that we don’t understand. We lose a loved one unexpectedly, don’t get that promotion like we thought, or we started on that plan to lose weight but it hasn’t happened yet. What to do? – Begin again. Remember the loved one in your heart, rethink your job situation for the next best step, make a plan to exercise that makes sense for your schedule. Olympic athletes train many years for that one chance to bring home a medal. Every day they train and each day they are ready to begin again. Fresh starts are the answer. Today’s disappointments are enough for today. In the morning, we begin again. Staying in the present moment is extremely hard in the world we live in. So many distractions seem to paralyze us from getting the most important things done. Fear keeps us from trying new things that we know could better our situation. What is the answer? The answer is to begin with a game plan and take action now. Go Hawks! |