“We could all use a little coaching.  When you’re playing the game, it’s hard to think of everything.” 

 Jim Rohn

I was raised with the example of doing things on your own.  It was seen as weakness to ask others for help, on the one hand.  On the other hand, the attitude that others weren’t doing it as good as you were, they needed the coaching.  The ones that were already leading the field were seen as “sell outs” or “compromisers”.  It all really boiled down to pride, ego, and arrogance.  The implied thought was, “No one is a good as I am, and even if they are more successful, they got there illicitly.”

This level of thinking runs rampant within the ranks of the mediocre.  And it took me years to dig out those beliefs.  Now a days, I just Forrest Gump stuff.

“Run Forrest, run!”

“And after 5 years of playing football, I got a college de-gree from Ala-Bama.”

 “Gump, why did you put that rifle together so quickly?!”  

“You told me to, Drill Sergeant!”

“I’d make you an officer, if it wasn’t a waste of a good enlisted man!”

“Gump, if you want to be good at ping-pong, just keep your eye on the ball.”

“Okay,” replied the soon-to-be world ping-pong champion.

Find a good coach,  then listen to them.  Stop with the push-back! Just do what they tell you to do.  Forrest Gump it!

Boo Yah!