The Greatest Feeling in the World

bycoachgrant

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2 years ago

THE GREATEST FEELING IN THE WORLD – Some, perhaps many, of you will know exactly what I’m talking about.

Ever achieved something truly great in your life? Maybe it was athletics? Maybe some of you have won a state championship? Or placed first in a music festival? Do you remember how you felt? Do you remember that feeling of utter exhilaration?

Getting to that point wasn’t easy though was it? Whatever your area of success, it took many years of hard work, concentration, dedication, confidence, pain, desire, faith, persistence and determination among other things.

Do you remember how incredibly hard it was getting there? Maybe it meant early morning practices before school. It meant hours and hours and hours of practice when your friends were doing other things and having a lot of fun. There may have been times when you felt like giving up. Somehow, though, you hung on and kept going.

You stuck to it through thick and thin. And then came the day when you reached your goal. Do you remember delivering that acceptance speech, holding that trophy, or having someone hang that medal around your neck? I’ll bet you can replay the video of that moment in your head right now, detail for detail. You can re-live that incomparable moment all over again. It’s something you never forget!

When I was a kid I really loved football. I loved playing it, watching it on TV, reading about it, collecting the sports cards…everything! I was lucky enough to learn something early in life. When I was 15 years old in 1967, the Green Bay Packers were the dominant team in the NFL. The Packers won the first ever Superbowl that year against the Kansas City Chiefs.

I remember reading an article about ‘the Pack’ in the newspaper. The article featured a quote from the late, great Vince Lombardi. I cut it out of the paper. Here it is.

'Winning is a Habit'

“It was part of Lombardi’s thinking that... ‘winning is a contest of wills. Winning is not a sometime thing it’s an all-the-time thing. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing... Any man’s finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious’”

I still have that old, now yellow, piece of paper from the newspaper. I keep it in my jewelry box. Those words from coach Lombardi stayed with me all my life and inspired me to achieve some neat things. I know the feeling I speak of from personal experience.

Friends, would you too like to experience that feeling of victory again? That winning feeling is available to all of us. You decide every morning whether you are going to win or not. As Coach Lombardi suggested, winning depends on the strength of your will. Every single day take the decision to make winning a habit. Do that and I'll see you at the top!