Path to Success: Choices

Life is as easy or as hard as you make it.

If you follow the laws of success, you are guaranteed to succeed. If you follow the laws of failure, you are guaranteed to fail.

Playing in the NFL, you realize that everyone has different backgrounds and upbringings, but we all followed the same laws of success to get there. Everyone is resilient, has a strong desire, determination, and work ethic. We then learned how to be professionals.

All of these things were enforced as well. You get fined if you’re late for meetings, expected to know all the plays and study on your own, catch every ball, make every tackle, and do your assignment, all while being a good teammate. If you don’t, you don’t last long.

Every person I’ve seen follow the laws of failure has failed. I’ve seen guys with great potential in football and beyond not reach their full potential because they chose to follow the laws of failure. Some broke actual laws and went to prison. Some chose not to take school seriously and flunked out or weren’t eligible to play sports. Some did drugs and weren’t able to pass drug tests or limited their physical ability.

We often blame others for our failures or think God isn’t on our side, but if you think of any “failure” that you faced in your life, I bet you can pinpoint what it was that caused you to fail. The same goes for all the successful moments in our lives. You can probably pinpoint all the things you did to succeed.

Whenever I gain weight and get out of shape, I’m never confused as to why. I know exactly why. I also know what it takes to lose weight and get in shape, so I’m never too concerned.

Sometimes we get into negative situations and don’t know how we got there. We must find out to learn from our mistakes and make sure they don’t happen again. Sometimes we even have successful moments and don’t know how it happened. That’s bad because we don’t know how to do it again.

Learn the steps and tasks it took to succeed in that area, and do it again. Learn from others’ mistakes as well as learn from others’ success.