Here is a clip from the film Any Given Sunday that inspires me each time I see it
Whichever way you look at this vid, whether you have seen the film or not, a sports fan or not, you have got to relate to it somehow.
“The inches are everywhere, on the field and in life”
We all from time to time deal with obstacles and barriers in our lives and our goals, in health and our professional lives that knock us back or knock us down.
My personal secret is to take these things on and fight for what I want.
Do I expect to get there straight away? I’d love to think so but in reality most things take a bit longer to get there and succeed. You don’t have to think it wil take months and years just because it is a big dream. That is where your planning and hard work and sweat come into it and your goals can be realised sooner.
What you do day by day does matter! This type of attitude WILL help you WIN!
Like Al says, it’s about doing it inch by inch, you add up them inches and then see how far have you come.
What happens if we don’t look for the inches?
Ultimately we take a lot longer or we indeed fail because you never see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I can relate to that and have days when progress stops, or I just don’t feel as motivated whether it be in my fitness and health or my business. I’m only human but I found ways to continue and this whole philosophy of progressing by inches makes a difference to how I work on myself and how I coach others to win.
What’s the alternative? You don’t try at all, or you do not make the changes that can make a difference.
That in my eyes is worse than failing.
I’m saying this to myself right now.
I’ve made some big changes in my own life recently that will have a knock on effect on my business and personal life in a negative way……if I let it.
But I feel positive, determined and willing to take the inches one at a time and crawl if I have to, to where I want to be.
Here is the speech Al made in full. Check it out for the rest of this week each day and more…
…I don’t know what to say really.
Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today.
Either we heal as a team or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we’re finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.
Now I can’t do it for you.
I’m too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh….
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.
You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That’s, that’s part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or to early
you don’t quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that’s going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.
I’ll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.
Now I can’t make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.
That’s a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That’s football guys.
That’s all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?
Be great!
Mike
