SPORTS HEADLINE-College football standouts are on display this weekend at the Annual NFL Scouting Combine where many NFL prospects perform in workouts in front of NFL coaches, scouts and front office personnel. This is often where players either make or break their eventual draft status. A great showing in your 40 yard sprint time can elevate you from a mid round pick to a first day draftee. A disastrous effort can cost you millions of dollars as a result of a slide for reasons on the field or off.
For example, University of Alabama standout offensive tackle Andre Smith entered the weekend as the premiere prospect at his position and a likely top 3 pick in April's draft. However, on Saturday morning it was announced that he had gone AWOL, did not show up as expected without communicating to anyone why or where he was. It turns out he took an early morning flight back to Atlanta to work out with his personal trainer because he felt he had done all that he needed to do for the teams in attendance. It may have been a simple misunderstanding, as his camp is saying, but to NFL coaches and executives who already had some questions about his effort and passion, that may be the deciding factor between him being drafted #3 or #23.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT-Understand what's at stake at all times. Things that may seem to be trivial or inconsequential in your mind may hold significant importance to those who are observing or evaluating you. The ultimate outcome of your actions may not have multi-million dollar consequences but the point is YOU NEVER KNOW. Always put forth your best works and efforts, whether they are in a major presentation or a minor homework assignment. Your future opportunities may very well rest on your activities of today.
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Coach.....Excellent advice but what if your actions are based on your subconscious mind that ultimately makes you sabotage yourself? How do you get beyond that if you don't see it happening in the moment, you only see the error of your ways afterwards or if someone points them out to you?
Thanks for the questions. Of course it's impossible to govern each action every time without the possibility of mistake or misstep but if you consistently apply a solid decision making process to your actions you should have positive results. If you seem to regularly find yourself in the midst of trouble and turmoil then it's clear that you need to take some time to look internally at why that self sabotage occurs.
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