“Make the best play possible
based on the circumstances of the play.”
Tom Brady said this on WEEI the other morning. Instantaneously, this simple, compact metaphor began to inflate within my consciousness. Tom’s recipe for success means SO MANY THINGS!
Don’t waste energy over things you can’t change.
Focus upon the cards that you have been dealt.
Look at what you have, not what you are missing.
Don’t blame others for your outcome.
Don’t obsess. Go with the flow.
And most importantly:
Satisfaction comes from the effort, not the result.
If you do your best, you can be happy.
If you don’t do your best, you can STILL choose to be happy.
If you leave “the play” to “forces beyond your control,”
simply realize that you are doing this and:
“Make the best play possible
based on the circumstances of the play.”
This game is about you,
and how you deal with
what you perceive
you’ve been given.
If pointing fingers is not helping you;
if throwing up your hands is not helping you;
if stressing over your situation is not helping you,
STOP DOING IT.
You get whatever you direct your energy towards.
Including your own misery.
Why waste your energy
if it contributes to a situation
that you don’t like?
Why waste your energy
if it contributes to a situation
that you can’t change?
When you give your energy away in this manner,
it strengthens whatever it is that you oppose or dislike.
Control your energy and you control your emotions.
Control your emotions and you control your happiness.
It’s that simple. But only if you choose it to be simple.
“Make the best play possible
based on the circumstances of the play.”
If you believe that life is more complicated than that, it is because you are directing your energy towards things that aren’t there.
Or things that weren’t there until you gave over your energy to them.
This is why Tom Brady is such a great quarterback.
Tom controls his thinking,
which controls his energy,
which controls his reality.
“Make the best play possible
based on the circumstances of the play.”
Look at where it got Tom Brady. Not surprisingly, the only thing that isn’t inflated is his ego.