Life And Football V. Contributed by @Olawalium
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You need to focus on every aspect of your life. You focus on your finance, you focus on your relationship, you focus on your career, marriage, spiritual matters, and every other thing that constitutes your life. You can’t leave one for another. Yes, you can’t focus on most, leaving the others.
Football has taught us that. To achieve a good level of success, focus on every aspect of your life. You can’t be making good money and still allow it to be draining as much as it is coming. Financial intelligence is needed. If you can’t manage it yourself, employ someone else to, most people do that. If you are good at making the money and you are not too keen or interested in how to manage it, employ someone else to. It saves you a lot more than you are spending.
The bottom line is, every aspect of your life is very vital and important, so do well to focus on every aspect, leaving none behind.
Always be prepared. That is another thing life has taught me. You don’t wait to have every moment perfect, you have to learn to make an imperfect moment perfect for you. Life won’t always give you what you deserve but what you demand. Place a demand on what you want and see what happens.
Being prepared means taking good use of every opportunity that comes your way and that means you have to keep your motivations high at all times, regardless of contrary situations around you.
This brought to mind the missed chances by Ighalo for Nigeria. He had two chances to put Nigeria ahead and deflate Argentinians' moods, but he missed it.
Preparation has to meet with opportunities. When opportunities come, be prepared to take it. Some have other opportunities and some others might not or it takes longer before it comes again. Whatever it is, be prepared because you don’t know when your moment will come.
I remembered Rashford too for England and Manchester United. He is a young forward, an exciting prospect, but then he wasted a wonderful chance for England to draw level with Belgium during their tie. That could have been the lifeline England needed to win or draw, which could spike their motivation level. That miss proved vital as Belgium won and knocked England away from the top spot, which could have seen them play Japan. He did the same when Manchester United played Manchester City. His miss also proved costly for his club side.
He wasn’t a regular starter as some players are also, but the moment they come on, they expect them to be prepared to take their chances. Most coaches would tell you, the moment a player starts coming off the bench to be decisive for his team, it is a great sign that he is staking his claim for a first-team shirt. Always stay prepared because life will always give you opportunities and you have to be able to take it.
Always be prepared.
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You are absolutely right brother, we really need to focus on every aspect of our life, through this, we won't focus on a part and leave others.
One must strive to learn how to manage money and resources at his disposal or seek people's advice if one couldn't manage well.
We shouldn't dwell more on a part of life and leave the other aspect untouched, for example, choice of work shouldn't dictate our doing well at home, we should always try to balance all.
Preparation meet opportunity, it is when we prepare our mind and focus that opportunity will knock our door, we couldn't just sit down idle and expect miracle to happen all of a sudden. We have to prepare our mind and remain positive. Thanks brother, I always enjoy your piece. Keep the good work flowing man.
You are right my brother. Every aspect needs to be touched and worked upon if we are to get the best out of life, just as the coach focuses on every tactical aspect of the game, to counter anyone from the opposition. We should always know that life will try to counter us, we must always be ready to fight back and be resilient in everything, so we won't be out and dry, we won't feel defeated.
Thanks as usual bro. Much appreciated.
Absolutely right, every aspect of our life must be touched, nothing must be left untouched, we must plan well and be tactical.
You got it brother. Nothing much be left untouched. Balance is needed.
Thanks a lot bro.
However, football also sometimes presents another way of looking negative. Today, it is often heard that stars involved in drugs, sexual assault, using doping, to bad temperament to the coach and parents.
Yes, everything has its downside but if we choose to focus on the good parts, it helps what we get out of it.
Ofcourse, it builds children up. They see the essence of working hard, discipline, caution, listening to instructions, learning, exposure and also team work. It is very valuable. Thanks a lot for that.
All eyes are always on footballers, they represent a whole country so they should always focus, be prepared and not missing opportunities expecially the world cup competitions where the whole world is watching
Footballers that didnt utilize chances are a big shame for their countries. Just like ighalo is a shame for nigeria
Now, Both legends (Messi and CR7 ) are out from the WorldCup. They are my heros. Im little bit sad, but it's okay, its game not the war.
Yes they are both out and other relatively unknown or good players are still there. That's football and that is life too. It is not about being the best, it is about doing the needful. I love both players so much.
Thanks a lot.
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@olawalium, I agree with this "You need to focus on every aspect of your life.You focus on your finances, you focus on your relationship, you focus on your career, marriage"
Absolutely. Everything works together and they are interwoven. We can't separate them. When we have it all together, that is true success.
Thanks a lot my friend.
Thanks a lot my friend. :)
You are most welcome. I hope your day is going great?
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