From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
Let me ask you something: When you join a team or an organization, do you have it as one of your goals to add value to the others on that team or organization?
Hall of Fame basketball player, Bill Russell, once said, “The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.”
Professional sports teams today are chock full of prima donnas and players who are more concerned about their own personal statistics than actually helping the team.
One key component of making your teammates play better is through the use of encouragement, rather than criticism.
Industrialist Charles Schwab said, “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
So, are you an uplifting encourager or a nagging critic?
I have played 25 seasons in Wallaceburg’s men’s recreational soccer league.
I may be one of the “average Joe’s” out there each week, but I can honestly say that the support and encouragement that I have received from the better players all these years has helped to improve my game.
Some of this sage advice has come from players I actually coached way back when they were in elementary school, but are not playing in travel leagues or other higher levels of soccer.
I would be lost without all this help!
Now that I have benefited from the encouragement of others, I endeavour to do the same.
Why not look for someone this week who needs that little lift?
