Your Personal Super Bowl
By LMReviews on Feb 1, 2009 in Multicultural Events, Multicultural Writing, Writing/Freelancing
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I don’t follow sports very much. Living in Arizona, I was happy when we landed a baseball team–Go Diamond Backs. I still have the first of a series of stylish t-shirts that Sears sold that year. (I was an employee in the men’s department at that time.) I’ve won tickets to a few Suns’ games when I was in elementary school and I would like to go to a Rattlers and Coyotes game some time. I was even proud when we landed a WNBA team and have been to a few Mercury games. I’ve been to all the stadiums and arenas at least once.
But despite my lack of Arizona sporting acumen, the legacy (rather, lack thereof) of the Arizona Cardinals is not lost on me. I’ve never wanted to be a fair-weather fan, so I generally don’t get caught up in the hoopla. My father was a big Laker fan and while he watched football, I don’t remember him being particularly passionate about a given team.
The point of this post is this, look at the Cardinals now. With a sporting past most would rather forget, they have made it to the Super Bowl. It reminds me as a writer to keep on doing what I’m doing, because as they say in the finance industry, past results isn’t an indicator of future performance. What is an indicator of future results? The time and energy you put in to something can only make you better. The results the Cardinals achieved in the past would not lead anyone to think that they would be in the Super Bowl today, however, the persistence and changes to their game plan each and every year made it more achievable as time progressed.
If you’re not where you want to be or not achieving the results you’d like, know that your past performance doesn’t have to be an indicator of your future success. Keep working and tweaking your game plan until you reach your own personal Super Bowl. What is your Super Bowl? Well, it’s different for each writer, so define it, seek it and achieve it for yourself!
