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I was watching one of my favorite movies the other night, \u201cHoosiers.\u201d\u00a0 And I began to notice something that was interesting about one of the key players.<\/p>\nI was watching one of my favorite movies the other night, \u201cHoosiers.\u201d\u00a0 And I began to notice something that was interesting about one of the key players.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve never watched the movie, it\u2019s about a small high school in Indiana that rises up and wins the State Championship.\u00a0 It\u2019s your classic David and Goliath story.<\/p>\n
One of the players on the team, named Jimmy is dropped off the team because his old coach has died and he doesn\u2019t want to play.\u00a0 He\u2019s grieving the death of his mentor.\u00a0 But he\u2019s an amazing player; one of the better players that anyone has ever seen.<\/p>\n
The new coach, played by Gene Hackman, is warned to stay away from Jimmy but he knows that he needs Jimmy if he is to have any hope of a winning season.\u00a0 So what does he do?<\/p>\n
There is a scene in which the coach and Jimmy meet outside while Jimmy is shooting some hoops.\u00a0 Up to this point it\u2019s important to note that in all the scenes Jimmy has been in, shooting basket after basket on his own, he\u2019s never missed. Not one time.\u00a0 But as the coach speaks to Jimmy, he makes this shocking statement: \u201cJimmy, I don\u2019t care whether you play basketball or not.\u201d\u00a0 That having been said, Jimmy misses his first shot.<\/p>\n
I thought how interesting and how poignant that point is.\u00a0 Often times we wait for someone to beg us to play.\u00a0 We wait for an outside motivation.\u00a0 And almost always, outside motivations are negative.<\/strong><\/p>\n The coach knew that Jimmy needed to want to play badly himself; that the motivation had to come from within.\u00a0 So here is my lesson for you today.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s in a marriage, a business, any relationship, stop waiting for someone else to beg you to play.<\/strong> Be motivated enough to engage on your own.\u00a0 You must have your own \u201cwant to.\u201d And short of that, no one can make you be great just because you could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was watching one of my favorite movies the other night, \u201cHoosiers.\u201d\u00a0 And I began to notice something that was interesting about one of the key players. If you\u2019ve never watched the movie, it\u2019s about a small high school in Indiana that rises up and wins the State Championship.\u00a0 It\u2019s your classic David and Goliath … Continue reading “I Don\u2019t Care Whether You Play or Not”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}