Don’t set your child up for career failure!
All the athletes on the team are working hard and doing their best, except one.
The one cuts corners, and they don’t complete the exercise. They have to go to the bathroom when things get particularly tough. When a drill or exercise is going to be difficult they question the coach. The coaches attempt to correct the child to conform to the teams rules and the practice sessions but the sloppy behavior continues.
And to top things off the child’s mother complains to other parents. So rather than being a supportive parent the mother is setting up the child for failure. As we all saw with Michael Phelps in the Olympics the difference between winning and losing can be the very thin. In a few years no one will remember who came in second. He won those events because he was willing to do the little things that over time gave him the edge. It’s the same with your career do you do the little things that over time will give you the edge? Do you have a career plan? Do you work the plan? Do you have a reading and study program? How many books have you read in the past year?
Don’t be like the athlete who cuts corners, and complained because they thought the coach was picking on them. Who on the team will have career success, those that worked hard and did the little bit extra or the negative complainer? I think you know the answer.
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