"Measured in seconds: success" ~ Cynthia G. Creel
I walked to see a sea of colors matching the team we would be all want to win this game, the Super Bowl. This year would be different I would not just be there to watch the mini major motion picture of commercials tell a story and moving the viewer to purchase hours or days later. This year I was interested in the teams. Even though I did have a favored team, it wasn’t so much going to be all about the teams but their ability to play and focusing in on not only the body language of the coaches and including the brain of the game played on the field, the quarter backs.
The blow of the whistle and the start of the game told a story that could only be changed by those who where playing the game. The movements of each team, how flexible and ability to interpret where obvious to me. The minuscule defenses made the difference so the first half there was a clear winner. The second half had a twist the lights went out giving a break to each team to rethink and stretch the bodies and minds. The second half both teams came to life, sadly too late for the team I wanted to win. I couldn‘t have asked for a better second half. Fact is, there are always new games to look forward to. What I will never know is the why this game was played out this way, just a general picture. What the players do, as well as what we do makes the difference between winning one game or coming in second with of course the sport of American football coming out ahead in the long run no matter who won. Just that we were watching and listening was the important fact.
It was fascinating to watch those quarterbacks work, knowing the only difference between them and a college level player is just a few seconds to determine a play and take a successful action. Even more exciting is the hundredths of a second between the players on each professional team. You might say the game last night was won or loss in the few seconds needed for the abilities of the players and quarterbacks to interpreter and have their minds and bodies perform at the moments needed to obtain a forward movement and gain the highest score.
Game Day is not a time to learn new tricks, it is a time to put into play the knowledge and experience you have, to only listen to the voice in you ear (the coach ) and intimately the inner voice. The hours of practice and preparation is the time to experiment on what works best, different information that may improve the results to become the best. As Kenny Roger’s once said, referring to playing the card game poker, “it’s knowing when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em.” that really counts. When to hold that ball, or throw it, how hard or soft with just the right spin and the ball breaking away from the finger tips holding on to the laces know it is going to end up in the receiver’s hands to run the touch down or end up being a fumble just beyond the reach of the recover, passing though the hand with the breath of a wish and the feel of the leather escaping to the turf below.
How close we all come sometimes to doing greatness and yet so far away. The difference is in the days and the time before the big day, before we have no choice, but to perform or fail. As a fan we do not see the hours put into the ability. Only the results of enough to succeed balanced by just enough to control imperfection.
These rules of being a successful quarter back do not only apply in the game of American Football, they are included in so many aspects of our lives. Some say they don’t want the government telling them what to eat. They want to figure things out for themselves. Taco Bell sold 300 million Doritos Locos Taco in the first year more than another taco they sold. (1) Is the main goal of a company to sell tacos to make a profit? Are the Taco’s sold going to help people to think better or live longer or just create a moment of shallow happiness? Does a company have a higher propose, to help all move forward company and customers? Or are they just focusing on how to make a dollar? Just profits to make keep the “production of red blood cells strong”? This would seem to be as rewarding as if the only thing a person did was to focused their life on making red blood cells. Yes, we need red blood cells to live, but the purpose of life is beyond sustaining life unless you are dying then it is the only thing that can be focused on. If we are not living there is no influence except the shadow of what we leave behind in thoughts we hold deep within and words spoken.
If we are not directed by those with a higher purpose, we are doomed to be directed by those with a single purpose. Where those paths lead are two very different places one will only sustain and existence possibly just slightly better than what we could create on our own or sucking a little life from us each day. The other way of having duel goals of profit and higher propose (moving things forward for all) sustains the body, mind and soul crating a path forward bring not only one but many.
If corporations only present the information to only gain profit we are stuck with the thoughts of “Watching our weight is like an English professor teaching the students aint is the best way to communicate. Leaving the students ill prepared for the job market with an ability to only rise to the level of instruction, unless the student is able to move beyond the teaching of the professor and the school. The possibility of this happening is only limited by the students ability to think with a normal functioning brain and the knowledge plus experience they possess.
Keeping on the path of True Health keeps us moving beyond the limitations of others around us. It gives us the ability to create ideas that solve a problem with a True Solution that helps not only the individual and includes the many touched in every day life by the individual.
So the question I will leave you is this, “What kind of quarter back do you want to try to become, one who wins the Super Bowl or one who is still learning, possibly moving only moving in circles, yet is still speaking aint to their team?”
It is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of finding the truth and moving forward together to a better than we were yesterday. Finding one truth to Our True Success is determined not by one “individual game”, it is by how we play each “game” over our life time. Success is happiness and peace within.
By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”
2-4-2013
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Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of By Design or Cynthia G. Creel.
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