Saints Game The Spirit of Losing

Good Morning on this Sunday morning after the Saturday football playoffs game . It is a kind of sad morning here in New Orleans. We lost the game and are out of the playoffs. But losing is a part of the game unfortunately and it is comforting to know that we still have a super team with players who are more than winners in our eyes. Drew Brees immediately congratulated the winning quarterback and then in a speech later on he praised his own team calling them winners and we agree one hundred percent. There is more to football than passes and tackling and offense and defense. Vince Lombardi says it well.

From the quotes of Vince Lombardi.....

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

"If you can't accept losing, than you can't accept winning."

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

We will come back next year and in the interim the players will go on with their lives serving our city with their charitable causes and their exemplary role modeling. That is why we love them so much. It is not because we have no lives and no other interests. It is because they are such super guys and we applaud them and are proud of them ...win or lose .

Losing is so much a part of life but it depends on how one perceives losing that matters. We learn to walk by crawling. Crawling is almost considered demeaning in our society but look how it is so important in the process of learning to walk because it is the first step in the process of walking. First we crawl . Then we want to walk and that process involves falling down many times before we finally walk successfully. It is that very spirit that Vince Lombardi talks about .. the will to win...the will to excel...even in those very first months of our lives we are struggling with the challenge to excel.....to walk and when we do ,. everyone including ourselves is thrilled. So there is no disgrace in losing It is in the getting back up that is honorable. And that applies to everything we do in life. Here is to losing for it is in losing that we learn to win.

Ring in the New Year

Ring in the New Year

I would like to start the year with some quotes. I love quotes. Maybe it is because they help to say what you or I may be thinking or could be thinking but I do not get the blame for such thinking, only the credit for finding the quotes. so enjoy my choice of quotes on this first day of 2011.

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have New Soul. " G. K. Chesterton . I don't think I need a new soul The old one will do just nicely. I just want to use my soul in a better way.

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this; To rise above the little things." John Burroughs ...Someone once said that some people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits and that a New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Speaking of resolutions, there are some pointers that I remember learning way back when.

Be specific. (making general goals is bound to allow you to be confused and distracted and encourage you to stray ).

Have realistic goals . (if you try to do too much, you will be overwhelmed and will give up).

Make sure it is what you want to do and not what you think others want you to do. (when it is self motivated there is a greater chance of success)

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. " Benjamin Franklin. Is he referring to my being a better person or my finding a man...hmmm?

"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets." William Thomas I never have regrets as such. I may feel sorry for some of the choices I made in that I may have offended someone but I honestly believe that all of these choices, the good and the bad, have put me where I am today, and I like where I am.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly , provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. " James Agate I like this one.

At any rate, I hope that this 2011 finds you happy and at peace most of the time and that one of your resolutions is to read my blog and share it with others.