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Football season is back. I enjoy football more now than I ever did in the past, and some of that is because I get inspired by the game, the players, and the mindset of athletes in general. I don't get too down when my team loses, especially early in the season, because those losses are like guide rails that indicate whether what they're doing is working or if they have to change course/tactics. Would that we all had signs like that. 

I suppose we do, though. We do things, every day, we either try new things or we keep on going through our routine the way we always have, and sometimes things go our way and sometimes the don't. But if you think of all of it as feedback, then you start to see how much control you have, how many choices have led you to where you are right now, and how a different choice, a different investment, a different approach to something you want, can have a massive impact. You start to see that a lot of what we have is what we believe we get to have, and some of the work is just that--believing we get to have/be/do what we want. 

Yeah, there are going to be setbacks. There are going to be things that don't turn out the way we want. But that's not the end of the line. It's just a checkpoint to see how badly we want what we said we want, how willing we are to find a different way to get to our end zone.