EVERY GAME IS A NEW GAME

 

How often do we hear people blurt, like: NO, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT or WHAT ELSE IS NEW IF I TRY AGAIN or I CAN DO IT AGAIN BUT SURELY I'LL FAIL AGAIN.  Those are NOT alarming statements BUT if shove comes to push, I'll readily admit that hearing those statements seem like alarm bells giving us the cue that there's a TICKING TIMEBOMB now activated.  In the NBA, the world's undisputed basketball championship grounds, WHEN the tourney reaches playoffs stage, until today, the Best-of-7 format is adopted until the Top 2 teams advance to the championship round.  So, WHY is that Best-of-7 format that popular till today?  Simple.  It's because EVERY GAME IS A NEW GAME, period📗📙📘

NBA history has shown over and over again that even if one team gets overwhelmed in Game 1, DON'T give up on that team because there's a 51% probability that that team will bounce back.  WHY?  Precisely it's because EVERY GAME IS A NEW GAME.  WHAT does that mean?  In life, after we lost 'big time' today, WHAT is expected of us is to go back to the drawing board, find the root cause of our failure and find the fix💧💧💧

Much as we would struggle in our debacles, never count ourselves out of the game because EVERY GAME IS A NEW GAME [unless you want to lose by default and play the next game exactly the way you lost the previous game???].  So, WHAT exactly do we do come next game?  Regroup.  Review.  Reassess.  Re-plot.  Re-plan.  And RESET.  To RESET means you have to forget that you lost the previous game as well✅✅✅

Let's NOT look farther than doing a LOOK-UP of our annual New Year's RESOLUTIONS.  Statistics show that just by the eighth day in January, 25 percent of people WHO made resolutions have failed to keep them.  And moving forward by end of the year, fewer than 10 percent of resolutions will have been kept.  Some psychologists point to our willpower as the culprit.  We only have so much energy to put on new endeavors and as the day-to-day grind of new obligations pile on, we lose our motivation to reach the goal we enthusiastically set at the beginning of the year.  LIKE losing 30 pounds in 30 days sounds great on a magazine cover BUT its a 'STRETCH GOAL' for most people.  Stumbling, even once, will likely dampen and even end up destroying one's motivation😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  I heard this slogan before:  THE POWER OF NEW BEGINNINGS.  Humans, it seems, are attracted to the power of NEW BEGINNINGS.  Scientists call the dates to WHICH we assign such BEGINNINGS as those 'temporal landmarks'.  Now, here's a modest mental hack I want to share.  Every year on my birthday, I'd take stock of WHERE I've been the past 12 months and WHERE I want to reach in another 12 months.  Understanding that mental hack remains as my powerful tool as it leads me to build FRESH STARTS, a mindset which I humbly take pride as in parallel with the motto that EVERY GAME IS A NEW GAME💚💛💜