Focus On Your Own Game Now

There’s this habit some have in the game.

The season is happening and observers are making comments about how the team are doing compared to how they did in the previous season. This is even though what happens in the previous season will not determine the outcome of the present one. They will compare points and positions in the league and cups. They will wax lyrical or critical. Such a web of intrigue will be spun that someone might get the impression that these comparisons make any difference.

There is also another habit some have in the game.

Great attention and focus will be given in interviews about the results and performances of competitors. Observers will be keen to note views about their progress or regress as if it has a bearing on the team in question. When a competitor wins they will query about a team’s capacity to keep up. When a competitor loses or draws they will query about a team’s capacity to take advantage. Such a web of intrigue will be spun that someone might get the impression that these comparisons make any difference.

In both scenarios a team’s performance will be painted in the light of these comparisons. This is why it helps to remember some key realities of the game. Realities such as the fact that the only game that matters is the one about to be played. Realities like the only thing you are responsible for is your performance in that upcoming game. Nothing can change what has happened. There is nothing you can do to truly affect a competitor’s performance in a different game.

Energy is wasted investing it in these habits. That energy is better spent applying yourself to the game at hand as you play it. That energy is better utilised putting in the best effort possible for the upcoming game. It is that discipline and application that can bring about at least the knowledge whatever the outcome that all your energies and efforts have been invested in the only thing that matters.

Many will try to get your attention onto other things. There are always the observers who have observations to share that will send you into a web of intrigue that will leave you confuddled and bemuddled. There is great wisdom in choosing your conversations wisely. Whenever anyone wants to ensnare you in that web, the best way to disentangle yourself is just to remember the best advice given in those circumstances.

Focus on your own game now.

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Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden