A few years back our son, so excited to be on his high school varsity basketball team in his senior year, finally explained to me what the team cheered over and over.<\/p>\n
I’d heard it from their huddle a million times, but it was an indistinguishable, testosterone filled teenage male battle cry that came out sounding like eee–yah, yahhhh, eeeeee YAHHH!<\/p>\n
After a two whole seasons of it I finally asked him what they were uttering so gutturally.<\/p>\n
HARD WORK.\u00a0 HARD WORK.<\/p>\n
That was it. So loud and strong and so compelling it got lost across the court every time. But it was in their minds and hearts.<\/p>\n
And hard work they did.\u00a0 They had an undefeated season, which brought them into the state finals.\u00a0 That game was hard work to watch — like a roller-coaster.\u00a0 It seemed that they were afraid of the other team, or just didn’t give it their all.\u00a0 Except in the last quarter, they worked and worked and got to the place where they were just one point ahead.\u00a0 In the final few seconds, victory seemed theirs.\u00a0 Then the other team scored a basket in literally the last two seconds and won.<\/p>\n
After the game, with tears in their eyes, I asked the young men what happened.\u00a0 My son said, “we thought the other team would be pushovers, so we didn’t try hard enough.\u00a0 We didn’t work hard enough, and we lost it.”<\/p>\n
I’ve remembered that lesson so many times, since.\u00a0 Anything takes HARD WORK.\u00a0 As Winston Churchill once said, “never, never, never give up.”\u00a0 Keep up the HARD WORK.\u00a0 Victory will be yours.<\/p>\n
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