I won’t do that again!
Two weekends ago, celebrating 4th of July, I was at the park with my family. It turned out to be a family reunion from my wife’s side of the family. There must’ve been 50 people, at least. We had a blast! We played soccer, softball, and volleyball. By the end of the night we ended up with a number of injuries. This girl had a close encounter with the soccer ball (o.k, the ball hit her in the face), my wife’s ankle lost against her’s cousin’s foot, and the worse was a broken knee (ouch!).
I went home limping as well. My right foot was sore. I tried remembering what, how, where, and when I injured it… and I could not pin-point it. Then it came to me: 2008 Charlotte North Carolina – Danny!
While on a business trip in South Carolina, I visited my family in Charlotte. We went out to the park to play some soccer. My nephew Danny broke loose and was headed straight for the goal. Close to the goal, he kicked it with all his might and I stretched out my leg to block the ball with my foot. The ball hit my foot and swang it to the side like the police busting a door open.
My ankle was sore for weeks. I learned one valuable lesson that day, never put out a weak foot to block a ball like that again. Notice I didn’t say “never block a shot like that again”. The problem wasn’t that I exteneded my leg out, the problem was my weak foot.
In our personal lives and at work we sometimes do things that don’t produce the desired outcome. When these things happen, we need to evaluate our actions and learn from them. It’s like the cat that sat on a cold pan every day. Then one day the owner cooked on that pan and placed it to the side. The cat came back to sit on it only to burn itself. The cat never sat on it again.
Let’s not be that cat. Let’s reflect and evaluate our actions constantly and learn from our mistakes. By the way, we won that soccer game – even with my busted ankle 
