Full Extension and Full Recovery

Life and hockey are intermingled. You can learn about one to be better in the other.

From time to time I will link to other stories/blogs/interesting tidbits.

Today's link is to a newsletter I receive called "The NO B.S Newsletter" by Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy. Here is a link to a paragraph written by Dan Kennedy:

"Into every day a little rain...rushing past me, leaving the SuperConference, the managing partner of the Renegade Cattle Company, Gold+ Luxury Member Jill Wolforth said, "Hi. Gotta run. One of your cows died." There is nothing worse in the livestock business than the news the some of your livestock is no longer alive. And I wasn't even invited to the barbeque. But I'm very big on dealing with bad news straight up, without spoonful of sugar added. One of my favorite writers about entrepreneurship, Carter Henderson, makes the observation that business is about confronting an endless parade of problems...disappointments...people bearing bad news. If you're not up to that, you may very well need to exit stage left. RESILIENCY is the numero uno characteristic required: take a hit, re-focus fast, and get on with the fixing or firing or fleeing or forgetting or whatever other productive response may be possible. When I was talking with George Ross off-stage, he seconded what Apprentice winner Bill Rancic and runner-up Kristi Frank had already told me: the majority can't handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM, especially when confronted with adversity. And superior education, superior intellect, superior talent all wash away and prove irrelevant if in possession of someone who can't handle the pressure. Every resource that can be marshaled should be marshaled, but ultimately achievement reflects character more than aptitude or advantage. Every time I'm at an event like the one held last month, and around leaders like Gene Simmons and George Ross, I come away with reinforced certainty that modeling behavior is the key of keys, and wondering whether most people are too obsessed with collecting tactics and techniques, too little focused on collecting behavioral characteristics."


How does this apply to officiating?

A. Refereeing is a lot like business in that you have to deal with disappointments, setbacks, road blocks, hurdles, assignors, politics, (d) all of the above...Do you have the wherewithall to handle this?

B. Whose behavior are you modelling? Anybody's???

C. Can you handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM?

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