Do more than just turn up - participate

To succeed you have to do more than just show up once in a while. You have to show up regularly.

Imagine if you would a team of players. Several months before the season starts, training takes place. Once, twice maybe more times a week, every week. And every week the training changes, new drills are put into place. New muscle groups are worked in unison. New skills are taught and mastered. Imagine then what would happen if a couple of those players preferred to sit on the sideline and talk about the rest of the team rather than joining in. Or exercises were only half completed and half-heartedly.

How well do you think the squad would do in its first game of the season. Well I suppose it depends on whether the coach decided to sit these players out of the game or not, or whether they were allowed to play. Would these people be able to last the distance of the entire match if they hadn't trained to do so? What would happen if the game went into extra time? Would the players who had only done just enough to get through the match be able to cope with the extra time?

We can all be guilty of showing up but not doing what we know we should be doing. We think we can pick up the slack again tomorrow.

Don't be caught out thinking there is all the time in the world to train - there isn't. Sooner or later you are going to be called in to answer for your actions, and to prove to the marketplace what you are capable of doing.

Would you be proud of today's performance, or is there room for improvement?

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"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart and mind, confidence is thekey to all the locks" Joe Patemo
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