Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24

People like to win and to be associated with winning teams or efforts. But the truth of life is that we will often fall short individually and as part of a team. What happens when that team can't seem to come out on top? What happens when one loss becomes two, then ten then fifty?

This is not uncommone either for the girls under 10 youth soccer team I coached or for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. The point is, it can (and as I suggest, will) happen to many of us. One important think to keep in mind is that there is a HUGE difference between losing and being a loser. Our wins or losses don't need to become a reflection on us. They definitley do not need to define us. There are great things to be learned in the losses we encounter in life. Loss is actually what makes us stronger, smarter and more committed to winning. When trapped in a cycle of loss sometimes it takes a coach who sees in us what we may have forgotten. Sometimes an individual player or participant can spark a change that impacts the entire organization. YOU can be that spark.

Episode story taken from Joan W. Young's BYU Devotional speech, "Seeing as Far as Forever", June 24, 2003.