Another weekend is coming to a close and I can say its been a pretty good one. I had an opportunity to watch a lot of football in person and via the television. So I was pretty much in good spirits as I love the game and my Arizona Cardinals won!
I found myself watching the Vikings and Ravens play earlier and the game went down to the wire only to be decided on the foot of the kicker. I am not sure that I would ever want to be a kicker in the NFL because for the length of time that they actually spend on the field, I think they have the most pressure per minute played. With 2 seconds left on the clock the kicker walks out to prepare to kick the field goal and makes his attempt which turns out to be unsuccessful. As a professional, you want to think that the kicker can come in to hit the field goal and call it a day. As with most things in life, you kinda have to expect that there are times when things don't go to plan. In the case of this kicker today, I think he walked very lonely to the locker room instead of being congratulated for winning the game.
Was it the kicker's fault that they lost the game? If there are 11 players on the field for each team at any one time, how can the blame rest on just one person? If its a team sport and ultimately the team wins/loses why should one person shoulder the responsibility of the outcome?
As I watched this game, I started to think about things and how our society accepts responsibility for things that happen.
Do you ever have situations where you haven't accepted responsibility for their outcomes? Do you blame others when you don't succeed as you would like?
In looking at the future leaders of tomorrow, if they don't have the skills to be successful we have to accept some of the blame. What did we do to prepare them? Its going to take all of us: parents, teachers, friends, and family to raise this new generation.
“If you blame others for your failures, do you credit them with your success?”
“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.”
-Oscar Wilde
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
-Albert Ellis
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
-Wayne Dyer
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