The Grass is Always Greener?
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Think back to when you were a child. Your mother probably had rules about sweets before dinner time. She wanted you to eat your vegetables and the more nutritious food, so she put the kibosh on the cookie jar. For some reason though, when she told you that the cookies were off limits, you wanted them so much more. Why do we always want the things we can’t have?

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Obstacles? Opportunities.
Topics: Leadership
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Ben is the player/coach of a soccer team in a competitive intramural university league. His team has a long tradition of winning. This season the team was struggling. Their good individual skills didn’t contribute to great team play. On-field passing and communication wasn’t happening.  Ben, as coach, was faced with 2 obstacles:

  • turning good players into a great team
  • practicing during the rainiest fall in recent South Carolina history

Winning looked unlikely, and achieving playoff or even championship success impossible. Ben took these obstacles and turned them into opportunities.

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