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SCOREBOARD MATTERS IN SPORTS AND LIFE

When a game ends, any game, anywhere, scoreboard matters. Coaching co-ed youth soccer teams meant getting trained to de-emphasize the final score. The problem was the kids. They kept score with each other.

SOCIAL COMPETITION: WHERE’S THE SCOREBOARD?

Social competition follows a different set of rules than sports. Sports take preparation and executing a plan. Then there’s the scoreboard. It explains the difference between winners and losers with few questions.

SCOREBOARD ANSWERS CONFUSING HARD LIFE QUESTIONS

Scoreboard shows winners and losers in a particular moment. Then the contest is over. The winners celebrate, the losers walk away. At least that’s what is supposed to happen.

EMOTIONAL SCOREBOARD, TALLY OF ANSWERS TO BIG QUESTIONS

Emotional Scoreboard doesn’t explain who wins, who loses, or the odd tie. It says more about effort, determination, and sportsmanship. As Robert DeNiro explained so eloquently in The Deer Hunter, “This is this. Not this, this.” Emotional scoreboard defines the argument of who won what without any details of what the winner won. (51-49, right […]

BREAKDOWN 2020: LIFE SCOREBOARD FOR ELEVEN SECONDS

Breakdown 2020 looks at the year’s round up on World Magazine. Year 2020 included the deaths of notable politicians, academics, theologians, athletes, and artists.  This is the most notable entry on the list:

ACCEPTING FAILURE? LESSONS FROM LeBRON

If you’re good at accepting failure, it means one thing: You tried, given it your best, and it wasn’t enough. You’ve done it, I’ve done it. If you haven’t done it, it’s coming. Accept failure to get better, and who doesn’t want to get better?

BE MINDFUL WITH A MIND ALREADY FULL? OK BOOMER

You hear ‘be mindful’ and what do you think? I hear it and think, ‘watch your step around this one.’ Is there more?

CARE ENOUGH WHEN IT MATTERS, OR . . .

Does anyone care enough? Yes? No? Depends? Ask someone who cares about everything, all the time, with every fiber in their soul, blah, blah, blah. They care, just ask them. How can anyone care so much about so many things? What’s the secret? Please continue:

SETTLED RULES = LAW OF THE LAND

When settled rules are ignored they get angry. Common courtesy wants to fight. Good manners want a go in the octagon. Eventually things calm down in what I understand is called ‘normalized’, as in: The New Normal.

ENTHUSIASTIC ENERGY FOR BETTER LIVING

Enthusiastic energy comes from a special place. Sports fans show it at every game, match, or contest. Literary fans show it at readings and awards. The difference?