Category: Bal’s Friday Thought

Today’s thought is from an accomplished football manager. And it’s something I learnt recently with my Under 13’s football team.

You see, we’d won like 10 games in a row.. and won them well. Unfortunately, we got to a stage that the team walked onto the pitch thinking we’ve got this and we can win easily. However, that’s not always the case.

We lost. And heavily. They destroyed us.

But you know what. We learnt so much from that one defeat. We learnt about our positioning, we learnt that we shouldn’t take particular risks when the opposition have certain qualities. Every team is different however, we shouldn’t become complacent.

I suppose, this is a life lesson. When you make a mistake, or when something doesn’t work out… you learn so much! And that is what makes you better.

Carlo says it very well…

We are always faced with so many choices.

Do you be… or do you go and do?

It’s a continuous loop of being, learning and understanding before you can go and do, share and be understood.

The Yin & Yang of Creativity…

So recently, I was on holiday and took the opportunity to read a book.

The book I read this summer was called, Never split the difference.

It was a great ready! Thoroughly recommend it.

The reason why I like it so much was because Chris gave some wonderful examples, he shared stories of successes but also failures! (you don’t have many people do that.. and then finally, it really did teach me something about empathy!)

So today’s thought is… make sure you’re equipped with the skills needed to negotiate.