Special Teams-Sticktoitiveness

SPECIAL TEAMS: SMALL THINGS THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE

PLAY #1 STICKTOITIVENESS-Refuse to Quit
I’ve seen countless men start out with the best of intentions, only to fail because they lacked the virtue of sticktoitiveness. But I’ve also seen other guys succeed despite the odds being stacked against them, because they had developed sticktoitiveness. They simply refused to quit

Developing Sticktoitiveness
This will require you to dig deep and find the desire to overcome any obstacle that pops up in your path. Here are few suggestions to help you develop sticktoitiveness.

SCRIMMAGE

1. Decide how you will act when faced with a challenge, before you are faced with it.

There are certain moral and ethical questions that every guy will face at some point in his life. You need to be prepared because the worst mistake you can make is to wait until you’re in the heat of the moment. Why? Because chances are your human weakness will take over and you will choose the easier, and most of the time, wrong choice. That’s why you have to decide now what things you will and will not do. Not only does this protect you from your emotions, it also reduces the number of decisions you have to make.

2. Write down your goals everyday.

The big advantage of this is you’ll focus on the tasks you need to accomplish and avoid wasting time. This will also help motivate you to maintain your sticktoitiveness when times get hard.

3. Learn from your mistakes.

A lot of times the reason guys fail isn’t that sticktoitiveness is impossible, but because they were using the wrong strategy. Albert Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If you see something in your life isn’t working, change it up.

HUDDLE DISCUSSION STARTERS

Name a man who you think models sticktoitiveness.