DO MORE? LIKE WHAT

You need to do more to matter?

That’s what you ask yourself when someone says,  “You need to do more to matter.”

Have you heard that?

I still hear it and I’m not some spring chicken pecking my way around the pen.

When is enough enough?

I turned out for sports in school like every little brother who had a big brother on the team.

Was I as good as him? Nooooo.

Did it bother me? Not much. When the team goes 1-9 there are a lot of people who could have done more.

It felt like a team that went through the motions and for that I blame the coaches.

Later in life I coached youth sports for years and I spotted the same unmotivated defect kids brought to sports and knew just what to do: Give them game awareness.

Instead of running around the field, they knew their spots and what to do when the ball came to them.

What had been a cluster of confusion turned into a well oiled machine.

I met some of the older teams at the Classic level games so they knew they were as good, or better, than the teams who had expert coaching.

Confidence building can’t start early enough when you know kids will run into coaches who want to ‘break them’ to make them over in vision of things.

 

Sports Highlights

If you don’t make the team, do more.

If you don’t play in college and turn professional, do more.

Not an Olympian? You obviously didn’t do enough.

Let’s call it what it is: B-b-b-bullshit.

Do what you can, live up to your expectations, and find what fires you up.

 

I joined the Army, got trained, and worked as a medical assistant in a Philadelphia civil service clinic, driving the ambulance out on calls around the installation.

Decades later I learned that I wasn’t a real veteran because I wasn’t deployed.

I didn’t do enough? Yes, I did.

After I graduated from college I learned a BS degree is like a high school diploma and I needed a master’s degree to matter.

There’s always more to do, and the people who do it have a special opinion of themselves.

The problem is leaving it at that, instead of judging everyone else.

You’ll know it when you hear it.

 

What You Need To Remember

Do the work you see needs doing, get in the reps, and then take on all comers.

You’ll make it the way you’re supposed to, not someone else’s opinion of what it takes to make it.

The accomplishments you achieve will mean more over the years.

Anyone who knows anything about it understands this: Winning a Super Bowl by one point on a time-expired field goal is a win everyone remembers, but are the losers trash?

Noooo.

 

PS:

Share your wins with your people to inspire them, the funnier the better.

PSS:

Share your losses, too. The funnier the better.

Which ones are classic funny?