What Really Wins the Game?

Packers won. We lost. Or did we?

Driving back from family weekend at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (dropped off some homemade pasta gravy and meatballs for my Peter Kelly Cutie Pie) when a radio announcer asked Bears Coach Matt Eberflus: What do you tell your players before a big game?

Coach said (going from memory because the lead on my pencil broke!): "Do one play at a time. Turn the page. Do it again."

I'm not even sure how scoring works in most sports, but I do co-lead our brood of three. The coach's words stayed with me.

Do one play at a time.

Learn what you did wrong. Take note of what went right.

Build your life story with momentum, strength, courage and grit. Turn the page.

Do it again.

My children were kind of surprised I was quoting an NFL football coach when I shared this with them today.

Sure, the Chicago Bears lost yesterday. But that was just one game. The long game is much more important.

That's how we write our story. In life. In business. In anything.

One play at a time.