GOING BEYOND OURSELVES
Coach Bill McCartney tells about the time in 1991, while coaching football at the University of Colorado, that he challenged his entire team to play beyond their normal abilities. He had heard that we spend 86 percent of our time thinking about ourselves and 14 percent of our time thinking of others. The coach was convinced that if his team could stop thinking about themselves and begin to think of others, there was a whole new source of energy that would be available to them. He challenged each of the team members to call someone he admired and loved and tell that person that he was dedicating the game to that person. The team member was to encourage this person to carefully watch every play he made, because it was all dedicated to this special person. Bill McCartney planned to distribute sixty footballs, one for each player to send to the person he had chosen with the final score written on…
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