We Bought A Basketball Hoop

  

Earlier last week we bought a basketball hoop, not a zoo because I watched the movie and a hoop is couple dimes cheaper. One thing I can say is that it feels good to play, either seriously or just for fun. I love watching my kids play and try

hard to make a bucket. I love the focus, energy and flow of the sport. Watching the Cavaliers win the championship only inspired my early days of watching the Jordan era and really motivated me to play again.Of coarse I’m not planning to join the NBA, but putting basketball back in my life has boosted my soul creatively and whole as a father and husband playing with my wife and kids. 

  Watching LeBron finally achieve his dream really inspired me to keep following mine, and whether you love him or hate him (I love him, don’t care) you have to look at his career and effort. When you work hard and want to achieve something, you’re going to polarize people and I’m sure he doesn’t even listen to the haters. He’s beyond that and I think that he’s taught an important message in today’s world and that is without hard work, determination, failure, vulnerability, mistakes, risk and focus nothing comes your way and it’s not always going to come the way you think.

  Yes, he came into the game at an early age with great skills but it didn’t end there, he had to grow with the game and realize this is not won overnight. Single games are short, but your whole career as basketball player is a long game and that’s what it takes to win. I’m not going into the hate debate deep, but I will say this just once, look at yourself, LeBron won because who else was pushing as hard, who else continued to find ways around, it wasn’t just talent, it was pure hard work and determination. I’m sure if he didn’t win this year he’d try again and again and it took 13 years to do it.

  

 

Again, I’m not going deep in his story, however his achievement is an inspiring one. That if we all keep believing, work hard, stay humble and give ourselves to others, only great things can come. Great things are hard to achieve, it’s scary and risky, think about his pressure, just a kid from Akron. We’re all just a kid from somewhere, so where do you plan to go today?