Last week I spent a week at the beach with a family member and client who happens to be the head football coach at a college in South Louisiana. Time with him is always time well spent learning about how to get a group of 18-22 year olds to "buy" into the system? How do you get such an immature audience to relate to your system of what it takes to win football games? These are the questions I ask as they also relate to achieving success in business and life, as well as the playing field.
As we further discuss, I learn many things to ponder. Growing up and maturity seem like simple task. Being a head coach, you have many hats to wear. You are trying to win football games, doing public relations, game planning, and the most important one of all, trying to develop young athletes into young men. So I learn this, immature people think life should give into their demands. They want life to change and "give in" to them. They believe life should serve them. Its called Entitlement. Mature people on the other hand, are responsive to the demands of life. They change! They serve life. It is not all about them.
There are just two groups of people: those who learn and grow and those who do not. Those who will not grow will suffer. They will suffer in their relationships, in their business, on the athletic field, and especially in their spirit. Those who can change because they see a necessity for change coming are the true winners in life.
Life's demand change, the economy changes, our children grow up, we lose parents and grandparents, we lose jobs, we lose clients. We have to grow upward or decline downward, we have to mature, we do not stay the same. It's called change!
Brock Anderson