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Let’s Just Worry About What’s In Front Of Us

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My beloved OU Sooner football team has experienced a season of challenge that we hope morphs into major growth and improvement. Coach Brent Venables is such a terrific personality and he seems like a good human. He's a man who has experienced serious adversity from his childhood through his adult years. We can focus on a multi-million dollar college football coach, but he's not defined by his income any more than I am. He's worth the money as a football coach at a major university. As a man, how he lives determines his value and worth. Same for us. Yesterday, I saw this article about the team entitled, With destiny out of Oklahoma's control, winning the next game is all that matters. I guarantee Brent Venables isn’t telling his players, “ok guys, we just need to win two more games to make it to a bowl game.” He’s not saying that. He’s not wired that way. He wants to win football games, and there are five more to go. In the words of the late Al Davis, “Just win, baby.” That’s all the Sooners can do. Win some football games and let the chips fall where they may. All this is the result of 3 disappointing losses, particularly the blowout 49-0 loss against rival Texas. Those failures took away the Sooners' opportunity to control their own destiny toward a major bowl or playoff run. But it didn't rob the Sooners of controlling their own destiny from here on out. Our challenges are sometimes major impasses. They knock us down and drag us out. Sometimes they knock us out. The Sooners coach isn't a man willing to lay down and whimper. He's not done that in his personal tragedies and he's not about to do it now as a first-time head coach. He's got decades of experience, knows what he's doing and knows he has to prepare his team to push through this adversity so they can grow. Those willing will benefit. Those unwilling will be gone. Either by their own choice, or his. This isn't really about college football or OU. It's not really about a football coach. It's about us. You and me. It's about our life and our challenges. It's about how we're going to stand up against our opponents and impasses. How will we respond? Will we wither? Will we increase our resolve to fight? What will we do when trouble comes? I've talked candidly - and I'll talk even more candidly today - about being in this 4-year struggle. It's been such a long, arduous fight I've reached a point where all I know to do is what the OU Sooners football team must do... Worry about what's in front of me! I shared these graphics on social media yesterday. Both of them spoke to me, more so now than maybe at any other time in my life. Let's take them in reverse order. "Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things." - Kahlil Gibran Gibran is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923. He was a Lebanese poet, writer, and philosopher who died in 1931. I don't profess to know much about him, but my recollection was that in the 1970s there were college students who discovered him. I'm supposing some college philosophy professors helped expose students to his work. But no matter, the man did write some quotable lines including that one I made into a social media graphic. I love quite a lot of things about it. Keeping quiet - which is going to sound very weird given that I'm a podcaster who hits RECORD maybe more frequently than I should - is VERY appealing. The longer I live the more I understand how intrusive many people are anxious to be in our lives. Not because of us. We'd like to think we're special like that, but it's got nothing to do with us. It's got everything to do with them and what they most want. That doesn't mean they're heartless and uncaring. It just means their priority is usually self-focused. And it's understandable because we're ALL experiencing life through our own eyes.
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My beloved OU Sooner football team has experienced a season of challenge that we hope morphs into major growth and improvement. Coach Brent Venables is such a terrific personality and he seems like a good human. He's a man who has experienced serious adversity from his childhood through his adult years. We can focus on a multi-million dollar college football coach, but he's not defined by his income any more than I am. He's worth the money as a football coach at a major university. As a man, how he lives determines his value and worth. Same for us. Yesterday, I saw this article about the team entitled, With destiny out of Oklahoma's control, winning the next game is all that matters. I guarantee Brent Venables isn’t telling his players, “ok guys, we just need to win two more games to make it to a bowl game.” He’s not saying that. He’s not wired that way. He wants to win football games, and there are five more to go. In the words of the late Al Davis, “Just win, baby.” That’s all the Sooners can do. Win some football games and let the chips fall where they may. All this is the result of 3 disappointing losses, particularly the blowout 49-0 loss against rival Texas. Those failures took away the Sooners' opportunity to control their own destiny toward a major bowl or playoff run. But it didn't rob the Sooners of controlling their own destiny from here on out. Our challenges are sometimes major impasses. They knock us down and drag us out. Sometimes they knock us out. The Sooners coach isn't a man willing to lay down and whimper. He's not done that in his personal tragedies and he's not about to do it now as a first-time head coach. He's got decades of experience, knows what he's doing and knows he has to prepare his team to push through this adversity so they can grow. Those willing will benefit. Those unwilling will be gone. Either by their own choice, or his. This isn't really about college football or OU. It's not really about a football coach. It's about us. You and me. It's about our life and our challenges. It's about how we're going to stand up against our opponents and impasses. How will we respond? Will we wither? Will we increase our resolve to fight? What will we do when trouble comes? I've talked candidly - and I'll talk even more candidly today - about being in this 4-year struggle. It's been such a long, arduous fight I've reached a point where all I know to do is what the OU Sooners football team must do... Worry about what's in front of me! I shared these graphics on social media yesterday. Both of them spoke to me, more so now than maybe at any other time in my life. Let's take them in reverse order. "Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things." - Kahlil Gibran Gibran is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923. He was a Lebanese poet, writer, and philosopher who died in 1931. I don't profess to know much about him, but my recollection was that in the 1970s there were college students who discovered him. I'm supposing some college philosophy professors helped expose students to his work. But no matter, the man did write some quotable lines including that one I made into a social media graphic. I love quite a lot of things about it. Keeping quiet - which is going to sound very weird given that I'm a podcaster who hits RECORD maybe more frequently than I should - is VERY appealing. The longer I live the more I understand how intrusive many people are anxious to be in our lives. Not because of us. We'd like to think we're special like that, but it's got nothing to do with us. It's got everything to do with them and what they most want. That doesn't mean they're heartless and uncaring. It just means their priority is usually self-focused. And it's understandable because we're ALL experiencing life through our own eyes.
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