March Madness

It's that time of year for those of us who love March Madness.  It's about collegiate basketball and upsets, emotional people, winning shots at the buzzer, excitement and of course tears from those who lose.  Faye and I love watching - it's just so fun.

Every year I read the paper the morning after the games, looking for comments from the coaches because they are teaching and coaching teams about getting better, working hard, play for the team not yourself, and I love finding interesting comments. The following is a quote from one of the assistant coaches and his name is Luke Becker.  He said, "We've been telling them all year, sometimes you can't just do what's required, you gotta go find a way to win."

I love it.  What he's saying is a person has to dig deep inside yourself when things aren't going your way and it might be attitude, effort, belief, or just working harder and doing whatever it takes. The same is true in this business. If you have goals and a process to follow and you're working but nothing seems to be working the way you want it to work. That is when you have to dig deep into yourself and keep fighting, maybe it's a better attitude, more effort, more consistency, talk to more people, whatever.....just dig deep within yourself and convince yourself you're willing to do whatever it takes.

I've been there and I know most of you know exactly what I'm saying. Keep fighting back. Don't accept failure.  Be willing to learn the lessons. Dig deep because sometimes that's what it's going to take.

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke