A coach explains his strategy Saturday was the last second-grade basketball game of the season. Two little guys on our park district team stood out as fairly aggressive players. Their focus was surprising for 7 or 8-year olds. The mom of one of these kids was sitting next to me.
When I complimented her on Johnny’s ability to see where the ball was headed and get there first, she replied frankly, “Yes, he really has his head in the game.”
That was a new phrase for me, someone who “really has his head in the game.” Some of the tykes are less into that focus, and their efforts are more timid and uncertain.
Another life lesson? What might be some applications? OK, for one thing I’m learning to appreciate drivers who are not holding cell phones to their ears, who perhaps really do have “their heads into their driving.”
I’m learning to appreciate the cashiers at Trader Joe's who “have their heads’ into customer service, and do their part to make paying for the groceries a pleasant experience.
Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote the manual on spiritual healing, concluded, “The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” Eddy was a writer, publisher, editor, preacher, healer, teacher, manager, employer. She knew whereof she spoke.
We see the results of dedication not only in sports, but in civil rights, in writers, dancers, musicians, in invention and in healing.
We can devote our best to whatever we are doing, keeping our heads in the task, or the game, of whatever we have been given to do.
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