Happy New Year Everyone!
Welcome back to "Fending Off the Fever" Part 3! In the last couple weeks we've discussed getting stronger in two different areas, physical and mental. We now have a strength program in place and a tight hold of a stronghold! (Read last weeks blog if you need to know what a stronghold is :)) Our minds and body are in a good place and we're ready to tackle the last key ingredient to a successful upcoming season. This one I call being a "spirit filled athlete." Let me begin by saying that being spirit filled is not something you try to do. It's an action or reaction that comes from within that other's will see in you as one who is different and special. Someone that others look to for leadership and direction. A person who attracts others to themselves because they have something that others are missing. That's it in a nut shell. I want to be around this person or athlete because I need what they've got! So how do you get there? How do you become spirit filled?
Personally, I battled this one for a long time! Always assuming that it must be attained by your own efforts, by trying harder. I'd observe those athletes that seemed to have it all and I wanted to be like them. Each year trying to better myself through getting stronger and faster. Trying to train harder than anyone else and by doing all the extra things that I knew others weren't. Well from years of experience, I can tell you this will only get you so far. Pulling yourself up by the boot straps day in and day out will wear you down to the core. Your energy tank will be on empty and your achievements will seem oh so so.
Where does this leave you? Standing at a cross road. Turn left and follow the wide road or turn right and follow the narrow road? The wide road leads you the way of the world and the path everyone takes because it's easy, comfortable, and proven to provide commonality. To be like the rest, travel down this fast and wide straight road! On the other hand, NOW try the straight and narrow road as the way. >>>>> Here's the hardest and best choice you'll make! Choose it and you will find a road full of challenges, ups and downs, and lessons beyond compare! If you didn't already know, God's Word says, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there will go. But because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth into life, few will find it. My advice is be one of the few! Trust God and release all control and follow Him. Your life in this world and in athletics will be "Spirit Filled", always sharing in the battles and leading others to glory! From the words of Robert Frost in "A Road Not Taken"
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverge in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Hope everyone has an awesome start to the New Year & I'll see you next week!!!!!
Coach Yon
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