By Stanley Dean Thomas.
Years ago a person I knew who was a truck driver had an incident when he was driving down a rural highway. Another car came in the road in front of him and he turned the steering wheel sharply to avoid hitting the car. He flipped his truck over on the side. It frightened him at first as he was shaken up over the incident. But his supervisor had told him that when something like that happens the best thing for you to do is to get right back in a truck and drive again the next day. If you don't you will be too afraid to ever drive again. And in football there are times when you notice like on special teams when the team is receiving a punt and the return man doesn't catch the ball but muffs the punt and he has to wind up either falling on the ball or a teammate falls on the ball or worse. The opposing team falls on the ball and now it's a turn over. Now the coach may talk to the player and tell him it's going to be okay, it's going to be all right. The coach will have that same player receive another punt the next time around. In other words, the coach would never give up on that player. The best thing for that player to do is to return back on to the field and to receive another punt. If that player was pulled from that position then he would never develop any confidence in receiving another punt again. He may not have confidence to be on the field playing. It's best to get right back into the game and play even after you make a critical mistake. You need to regain your confidence. The one thing you don't want to do is to lose confidence. It's important to understand this and also to have leaders in your organization who understand this principle. This could mean the difference between failure and success, a pattern of always failing or a pattern of continuing to achieve greatness.
