(originally posted on www.hospitalimpacted.org)
I have the privilege of coaching amazing young men in a high school recreation basketball league.
I remember one particular game last season where we were getting beat soundly and our players were feeling pretty down. As I turned to the scoreboard and saw we were trailing 43 to 12 late in the first half, I called our players' attention to it. I called their attention to the fact that the outside world was judging us based on those electric red numbers glaring ... and yet the outside world had no idea the measure of a young man's heart, the real measure of our team's success.
We turned our attention toward each of our own measures of success, each step we were making individually and together to improve as basketball players (and coaches) and as men. We talked about the outside world and the glare of the red, and set that aside to focus on the REAL wins, the TRUE measures of success.
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