They told me everything would be okay. They told me that every thing is all good and my speed will pay my way. Hmm...that's the day I said to myself "Joe, you ain't got a thing to worry about" No doubt everyone would love me, the 4.3, the 4 TD's in one quarter when I intercepted three. Standing on top as the future #1 pick, but first gotta pass my SAT.
Its crunch time, but this is a different kind of time, no game lights, no cheerleaders screaming fight, its the hardest competition I've ever been in, it was time to put that paper to a pen. I'm sick to my stomach an don't know what to do, how to feel, I never prepared for an opponent just so real. Big, 350 pounders ready to break every bone in their body just to get to me, but don't scare me, not Mean Joe Dean!
I have never seen this kind of game before nor have I ever watched game film or studied the weekly playbook for his team before, they had a star player on the team..his name was Aca Demics. I was told that people beat his team before, but many fail and never come back to face this opponent again. I have to admit, I was not ready! They told me every thing would be okay they told me everything would be all good.
How dumb could I have been? So dumb that I took advice from people that only cared about winning. They never told me that one day I would face such a Goliath like specimen that would ultimately ruin my career. That day came, I tried my hardest to be the greatest of the great, but it was to late, I was to familiar with the study method called procrastinate. I remember my final play when I cam through a blocking lane that appeared open, then all of a sudden Aca Demic hit me so hard that my hands dropped causing me to fumble in the game of life.
Now take my advice, game time is great and all, but you have to be prepared for the much greater things you will face in the future that will create a winner out of you or a loser like me..Mean Joe Dean!
Eze Ejelonu
DAASH Athletics Enterprises, Inc.
President/CEO
http://www.daashathletics.com/
Monday, April 21, 2008
Never Looking Back
Have you ever been so preoccupied with your past that you never seem to get anything new started and finished? You could wake up every morning making plans to shoot extra free throws at practice or you can tell yourself to run that extra mile and push out at least 3-4 extra repetitions on the bench press. Unfortunately, many of us seem more comfortable accepting their past failures and would rather dwell in misery instead of "starting fresh".Come on people..WAKE UP! You are what you think and say you are.
Did you know that the mind can ultimately design an outline of your life? For example, if you believe and constantly say to yourself that you are the best high school or college fullback in the nation, one day you will be inducting yourself in the NFL Hall of Fame. You may not see it right away, but your mind will slowly mold you into what you think about 99% of the day. So don't give up, many people do not realize that "sticking with it" through the good times and bad will eventually pay off. With all of this being said, imagine if you kept in your mind an incident from 5 years ago when you blew the state championship game by air balling a three pointer in the last seconds. Go ahead, dwell on this all you want and you will one day hold the record for the most air balled shots in NCAA history.
I remember when I was in high school and we only won 6 regular season games out of 17. What did we do? We never gave up, we continued to work hard and have fun everyday at practice. Our high school basketball team always believed we were better then our record showed andwe knew that no matter what happened we gave it our best. We would eventually make a playoff run winning the District and Regional Championship and finishing our season two games away from the State Championship.Never look back at what you did in past, life is full of new adventures and new goals to accomplish. So get out there and make a name for yourself. Look forward with a head full of steam and never look back.
Eze Ejelonu
President/CEO
DAASH Athletic Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.daashathletics.com/
Did you know that the mind can ultimately design an outline of your life? For example, if you believe and constantly say to yourself that you are the best high school or college fullback in the nation, one day you will be inducting yourself in the NFL Hall of Fame. You may not see it right away, but your mind will slowly mold you into what you think about 99% of the day. So don't give up, many people do not realize that "sticking with it" through the good times and bad will eventually pay off. With all of this being said, imagine if you kept in your mind an incident from 5 years ago when you blew the state championship game by air balling a three pointer in the last seconds. Go ahead, dwell on this all you want and you will one day hold the record for the most air balled shots in NCAA history.
I remember when I was in high school and we only won 6 regular season games out of 17. What did we do? We never gave up, we continued to work hard and have fun everyday at practice. Our high school basketball team always believed we were better then our record showed andwe knew that no matter what happened we gave it our best. We would eventually make a playoff run winning the District and Regional Championship and finishing our season two games away from the State Championship.Never look back at what you did in past, life is full of new adventures and new goals to accomplish. So get out there and make a name for yourself. Look forward with a head full of steam and never look back.
Eze Ejelonu
President/CEO
DAASH Athletic Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.daashathletics.com/
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