So a few days ago, on a call with Hari Sundram, we were laughing about being athlete parents and how real life (and especially #entrepreneurship) is so much like playing an away game where the referees are buddies with the home team.
The other night was my freshman son’s first official high school #football game. My husband coached his 8th grade team and moved him from Running Back to Quarterback and I thought he was crazy (so did my son at first). He saw something in JR that I didn’t. This year we moved him to a bigger school so he would have more opportunities with #sports because that's his #passion, and they put him at QB/LB.
That game was an undeniable analogy for real life. So much so that I had to share.
Real life is…
-Finding out your freshman team is playing the opponent’s JV team (and not letting that psych you out)
-Realizing the value of the people in your life that see things in you that you don’t (and trusting them)
-Knowing when to run the ball and when to pass it (and surrounding yourself with people you trust enough to pass it to)
-Running 50 yards for a TD that gets called back for holding in the backfield (and not wasting time on the small injustices of life)
-Having your RB forget you’re running a trick play and fumble the ball (and still having to be a good #leader without making them feel small)
-Humbling yourself and realizing that you’re not conditioned as well as you thought you were (and being willing to put in the work between the big moments)
-Trying to find the wins and rallying your people even inside the loss (and sometimes rallying yourself when no one else is around)
-Waking up the next day completely exhausted and beat up and getting ready to do it all again
So... this is part life reflection/analogy and part #proudmama (ps he's #12 on the white team and I hope he's adequately mortified that I'm posting this video 😂)
Thanks to so many in my #tribe (especially my husband) and the people who’ve seen things in me that I didn’t...and helping me rally in the hardest moments.
Erika Ensign Rachel Strauss ⭐️Sunny Nadolsky Mindi Fynke Carrie Staab-Urbanelli Paul Carter Shawn Evans Collin Bryce Don Collis Jason S Sherman Hari Sundram Lucien Morin Thomas Walaszek, CFA Trent Harper Kevin Brown Steve Butz Greg Edwards Tom DiLiegro Jill Carlyle Barbara Shelton Holly Craigen Breean Jenko Ryan Carter, MS Kamilia Tagi Smith, MD FACOG NCMP Hannah Trad Madison Parr
Maybe take a moment today to #thank your people...
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