#22 “If you give everything you have, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we’re gonna be winners.”- Coach Norman Dale, Hoosiers 1986
Wait a second...... "don't care what the scoreboard says"??? ... "We are all going to be winners"???
Huh?.... at first I was so going to contest this. I was going to blog for 6 paragraphs about how that is an incorrect statement. We're not ALL winners.. we are ALL semi- losers. But, then I realized... who's to judge our win? Is it a tally mark that someone puts on the board, is it a goal scored, a home run (damn did you see the World Series last night???), a touchdown with less than 2 minutes on the clock when you are down by 3, or is it really a successful hurdle that you've overcome?
NO..... the winner is YOU. The person you compete against each day is YOU.
The scoreboard in life is YOURS!
I do give everything I have.. to a breaking point of exhaustion, but how do points make the board in life? In sports we assume, based on rules, that once we've "scored", we are up on the opponent. We are "ahead". We have out-powered the competition. Yet...
What are the rules in your own competition? Are you yelling "touchdown", or "goal", or "swish" every time you are engaged in a WIN? Or are you screaming FORE, while crossing your fingers, biting your nails, pacing vigorously in anticipation? I want to win, yet... do I rely on my team to prevent a loss?
My team could be my own worst competition.
I have been on some losing ends of teams. I've been screwed. Stuck with field goal kickers when you need quarterbacks and wide receivers when the match up is an offensive battle. I have been there. I have seen competition in team building. But, I know that whatever the score is at the end of the game, each teammate came out a winner against their own idea of participation. We each are individuals, but when its time to be a winner I want a 10 point lead. I want to school them at their own game.
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