The best laid plans....

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go arie"

That isn't a bad thing though. In my opinion the true test of a

person is how we react to things when they don't go the way

that we planned them. Are we prepared to move forward and

get the best results out of the rest of the time we have.

I think of this every week when I see my husband working on

the game plan for the week. He's feverishly trying to figure

out which plays to put in and which plays to use that will stop

the other team from scoring. On Saturday he starts playing and

it only takes a couple of missed plays and it would seem that it

would be time to give up.

Those of you that know football know that it is more a game of

committment than of actual game. I'm not implying that skill is not

needed but you'd be amazed at how well people who believe in

themselves can play even when the skill isn't always present.

I often hear my husband tell the players that it doesn't matter how

many times the offense gives up the ball, or how many plays that

the defense has to play. Each time the defense has to go out there

and believe that they can do it.

If they give up on the entire game after a couple of bad plays

then that wouldn't be much of a game. The same can be said

of life, if we give up on our goal after a couple of seemingly

hard failures than we'd be giving up in the first quarter of

our "game".

How many times has a team made an amazing comeback?

How many times have we seen a team throw a last

minute touchdown or make that goal-line stop to win

the game. The team didn't make an amazing comeback

because they gave up on the goal. Infact they actually did what

I think few people think about. They believed that they could

do it and they made the changes necessary to get it done.

Life is much the same way. If you want something then just

because you can't accomplish it in the first half of your game

doesn't mean that you can't do it in the 3rd quarter. I'm living

proof of that. I am finishing my bachelor's degree in my 30's.

I never gave up on that dream, even though I had to leave school

twice because the timing was off I kept making it a priority

and eventually got to the point where it was something that I

could accomplish!

So just like in football, things will not go the way that we

expected or planned them to go, but if we make the correct

adjustments we have the chance of making our goals into

a win!!!!