Be an All-Pro;

As I am an American, football is on my mind. I know the NFL is a second thought for most of the world when they see the word “football”, but there is something we all can learn from the game.

In a typical NFL game there is somewhere between 140 and 150 plays. Ultimately, the game hinges on 3 or 4 plays. The announcers often say, “this is the most important play of the game.” If it’s ten seconds left in the fourth quarter and one team is kicking a go ahead field goal, they’re right! But most of the time, no one knows which plays are going to matter. In order to win, each team has to go all out on each and every play or they might miss the plays that matter. That’s what makes football exciting to watch.

Bobby Czyz is a former boxing light heavyweight champion of the world. He was once asked, “What’s it like to be knocked out?” He responded, “the interesting thing about knockout punches is that you never see them coming.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the greatest economists in the world. Once being interviewed, he said he learned the quality of the writing that on the days he didn’t feel like it is just as good as on the days he did feel like it. Every single time, he went all out whether he felt like it or not.

If you want to be an all pro anything, there is no such thing as momentum. You have to go all out. You never know when the big break is going to come. You don’t know the three plays that will matter, so you have to go all out if you are going to win.