I read a story once of a football team that had not been able to put together a winning season for several years. Their coach, a volunteer, stuck with the team at all costs and every year he started the season with positive attitude and never lost a step all season. He hated hearing negative comments from his players and or other coaches, so he found what he thought would send the perfect message in a poster and hung it up.
The picture was a shadowed image of a football player slumped over at the end of the bench with his helmet hanging from a clenched fist and rain falling heavy. The message was obvious that the player was on the losing team and to emphasize the message, in quotations, written across the top of the poster were the words, "I quit!"
After several weeks of players and coaches going in and out of his office and seeing this poster during yet another less than winning season, several coaches and players finally asked why he had this poster on his wall and why he just doesn't quit himself.
After getting the team together in the locker room he went into his office, took down the poster and hung it up on the whiteboard so the team could see it.
He addressed the teams record for the season and likewise mentioned the past few years. Mentioning his beliefe that the team had what it took to win with talent, he also mentioned his past when he was down and out and a message that he came to realize was hidden when looking at a cross one day.
He then brought to the attention of the team something they all did not notice at first glance. Across the top, in large letters the poster read, I quit.
At the bottom corner was a picture of an empty cross and below that were the words, "I didn't."
"Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
In order to achieve success, you must first succeed with failure.
The picture was a shadowed image of a football player slumped over at the end of the bench with his helmet hanging from a clenched fist and rain falling heavy. The message was obvious that the player was on the losing team and to emphasize the message, in quotations, written across the top of the poster were the words, "I quit!"
After several weeks of players and coaches going in and out of his office and seeing this poster during yet another less than winning season, several coaches and players finally asked why he had this poster on his wall and why he just doesn't quit himself.
After getting the team together in the locker room he went into his office, took down the poster and hung it up on the whiteboard so the team could see it.
He addressed the teams record for the season and likewise mentioned the past few years. Mentioning his beliefe that the team had what it took to win with talent, he also mentioned his past when he was down and out and a message that he came to realize was hidden when looking at a cross one day.
He then brought to the attention of the team something they all did not notice at first glance. Across the top, in large letters the poster read, I quit.
At the bottom corner was a picture of an empty cross and below that were the words, "I didn't."
"Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
In order to achieve success, you must first succeed with failure.
I read a story once of a football team that had not been able to put together a winning season for several years. Their coach, a volunteer, stuck with the team at all costs and every year he started the season with positive attitude and never lost a step all season. He hated hearing negative comments from his players and or other coaches, so he found what he thought would send the perfect message in a poster and hung it up.
The picture was a shadowed image of a football player slumped over at the end of the bench with his helmet hanging from a clenched fist and rain falling heavy. The message was obvious that the player was on the losing team and to emphasize the message, in quotations, written across the top of the poster were the words, "I quit!"
After several weeks of players and coaches going in and out of his office and seeing this poster during yet another less than winning season, several coaches and players finally asked why he had this poster on his wall and why he just doesn't quit himself.
After getting the team together in the locker room he went into his office, took down the poster and hung it up on the whiteboard so the team could see it.
He addressed the teams record for the season and likewise mentioned the past few years. Mentioning his beliefe that the team had what it took to win with talent, he also mentioned his past when he was down and out and a message that he came to realize was hidden when looking at a cross one day.
He then brought to the attention of the team something they all did not notice at first glance. Across the top, in large letters the poster read, I quit.
At the bottom corner was a picture of an empty cross and below that were the words, "I didn't."
"Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
In order to achieve success, you must first succeed with failure.
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