Saturday morning we watched 3 & 4 year olds play flag football. I’m not even sure you can call it playing football. It was amazing to watch their attitudes and attention spans. They would get caught up in running and trying to get the player with the ball. For the most part they understood that was the idea. A few of them just weren’t into it and would stand around while the others ran. They also liked to pull the flags off someone else but they didn’t like it when someone pulled their flags off. The best part of the whole event was when the snack got passed around at the end of the “game.” They all knew that was the whole reason for doing this, cuz you got a snack afterwards.
Isn’t this the way so much is done in business? You start something, maybe because you’re chasing someone and then you get caught up in something else. You like it when you get them, but you don’t really like it when they get you and of course we all know that even the most fun part of business is the snack or what has taken the place of a snack – taking clients out or having that meeting with lunch. Just bring out food and folks will show up.
What’s really great about this is that they start the season knowing very little and they keep practicing little parts of the game and in a couple of years they know how to play the game. We need to keep this in mind with our business. Do a few things and then a few more things and then take a break and have a snack and pretty soon you’ll be doing a lot.
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