At half-time, I thought, if Atlanta can score 21 points in the first half, New England can do the same in the second half, and win. That’s the way The Pats have to look at it. There’s a lot of game left.
Yeah, I’m so smart I turned off the game early in the fourth quarter and missed the comeback of the century.
I thought it was over. No time left. Too big a deficit. But it wasn’t over. Because it wasn’t over until it was over.
So, is that it? Is the lesson to never give up, no matter what? Keep fighting no matter how bad things look?
Yes.
The game isn’t over, the election isn’t over, the trial isn’t over until its over (and you’ve exhausted all appeals).
Never give up. Never give in.
Now, it’s easy to give up when nobody is watching. All those projects you’ve started but never completed, all those goals that were quietly swept under the rug. When you’re the only one who knows, giving up is no big deal.
So if you want to win, make sure lots of people know.
There are those who say we should never share our goals or plans with others, that we should keep them to ourselves. Telling others, they say, puts too much pressure on you to perform and causes you to mess up.
But it is precisely that kind of pressure that leads to great victories.
When hundreds of millions of people are watching you, cheering you, counting on you, that’s when you do the impossible.
Go public with your plans. Share your goals. Be accountable. Take the chance that you will mess up. Because in this way, you will summon all that you have and accomplish things you might otherwise never accomplish.
There’s a related lesson, one that Atlanta missed, and that is assuming you’ve won before you’ve won. The Falcons took the win for granted and blew it. As Lost in Space’s Dr. Smith would put it, “Oh the pain”.
Never give up, and never celebrate before all the beans are counted. Because it ain’t over ’til it’s over.
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