Are You Ready For Some Football?

Football season is just around the corner.  My wife may not agree with this assessment, but in my humble opinion, football season is one of the best times of the year.  Even if you don’t care for football, there are many life lessons that can be learned from the game.  Here are a few to think about.

Football requires a pretty unique brand of teamwork.  When you’re a part of a football team, understanding your role and that of your teammate is critical.  Trusting them to do their job is of utmost importance.  The emotional ups and downs that a team will experience help to build trust over time.  People who work together will win.

I remember when I got my first football playbook (Stuart Junior High – many years ago) I was struck by the fact that every play in the playbook is designed to score a touchdown.  I had never thought of it that way before.  From the simplest play to the most complicated, every play is designed to score a touchdown.  Our coach told us that your execution of that play determines whether or not that is true.  People make plans, both good and bad, in their life.  Success is rarely determined by a plan, it is always determined by how well someone executes the plan.  As with any team, everyone doing their job to perfection is what determines success.

In the game of football, you learn that you don’t win on talent alone.  Almost always it is the desire to win that will determine the final outcome.  You cannot take a shortcut to becoming the best at whatever it is that you do.  Success takes work, desire, and a drive to win.

Legendary Coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning is Everything.”  In a lesser-known quote from Coach Lombardi, he later recanted that statement and went on to say, “Winning isn’t everything.  Making the effort to win is everything.  The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

Enjoy the rest of your summer – knowing that football season is almost here!

Dave Hurst, CPA

Partner – McGowen, Hurst, Clark & Smith, P.C.

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