It’s football season again. When the “Dog Days’ of summer arrive, I am reminded of my childhood and young adulthood when football changed my life for the better. Late August each year I reported to camp, from high school through college. Seeing football teams practicing, drilling, and running brings many good experiences back.
Here’s some of what football gave me:
- Coaching matters – good coaches will help you get much better than I ever event thought possible. Hire them early and often.
- Learn – practice – drill – repeat and do it more than your competition. Throughout my career, spending time in the ‘film room’ and ‘chalk talks’ has given me a competitive advantage. Reading books, studying new information and ideas, applying them by practicing and drilling until I get it.
- Emotional intelligence separates the great from the good. I can be the strongest, fastest, and most talented on the field, but being able to stay calm and make good decisions in the heat of the game has kept me at the top of my game! (I’m the LC lineman blocking).