If you do not Crusade For your own success
Who will?
by CoachFreeb
Your own personal success should come first. It should be your top priority. Too often we get caught up in doing other things for other people that we forget to put ourselves first. And it must be a Crusade. The definition of a Crusade states: any vigorous concerted movement for a cause undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm. What better cause than your own personal success? Become a zealot while working on and for yourself.
Frosty Westerling, Pacific Lutheran University football coach, authored a great book, Make The Big Time Where You Are. Every one of us is involved in something, many things. Wherever you are; whatever you are doing; make the big time where you are. I am involved in education. Every year I witness students living their life in absentia. They have their priorities turned around. They forego the activities and programs that society has constructed for them to participate in while they are teenagers. Instead, they look for a job, so they can buy a car, so they can get to their job. What a crime it is for them to get caught on that tread mill at such a young age.
High School students should be involved in high school activities. How would a high school student make the big time? There are lots of ways to make the big time as a high school student: 4.0 GPA, 1500 SAT score, All American Athlete, National Merit Finalist, outstanding musician, writer, thespian. Take a look around you. What would it take to make the big time where you are, right now. Determine what specific characteristic, traits and behaviors would be exhibited by a “Big Timer” in your situation and go for it.
Crusade for it. Become a zealot for you own success.
A zealot is a fanatically committed person. It takes that kind of attitude to run a crusade. It’s your life. It’s your future. Who else is there that would be more committed to see you succeed than you (besides your mother who has always been your best crusader)? Making the big time where you are today will give you bigger more rewarding opportunities tomorrow.
It becomes an upward, hyperspiral of possibilities that become ava ilable to you because of what you do on a daily basis, where you are, and you should do that with zeal, enthusiasm, commitment.
Become your best Crusader!
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What is the Big Time for you? Your team? Your school? Winning three consecutive State Championships, 50 games in a row, a new national winning streak are big time achievements.
What’s the Big Time for you? At your school? For our program mak...ing the Big Time now would be to qualify for the playoffs, go undefeated, win the conference championship and make it to and beyond the quarter finals. Of course, the really Big Time would be to win the State Championship and be ranked nationally. Picture what it would take to do that. Get everybody together and brainstorm it. Then get yourselves to take action on getting it done.
For each higher level of achievement, a higher degree of teamwork is
required: 'As the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates.’
You must make this your CRUSADE (something bigger than you are):
It adds meaning to your life - Think of Jake and Elwood, two losers on a Mission
Crusaders die hard.
A Crusade is different from a job
You still work; but instead of working less . . . you will work harder than you ever worked in your life; and you will not mind it.
Gives you a cause bigger than yourself
You are committed to something more
Our potential is only as good as our current team. If you build the right team, the Cream will take care of itself.
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