It hasn’t been a good season for my Toronto Blue Jays, but there was a bright spot last week.
Chris Rowley, a rookie pitcher who took a year away from baseball to serve in the military, pitched in his first game and did amazing. He pitched almost 6 innings and only let up one run to get the win, which is pretty good for your first time against big league hitters.
Although I was happy to see it, Rowley shouldn’t get too cocky. I’ve seen the same thing happen before, and the next game the pitcher gets beat up pretty bad.
Plenty of times, that first game is their high point and they fade away into obscurity.
It doesn’t happen only to athletes – I see it happen to coaches too. A new coach will get a few clients in their first week or two in business, and they get a little sure of themselves.
They think; “Heck, if I got this many clients this early, think of how well I’ll be doing the next few months!”
They then take their foot off the gas and don’t look for new clients while they’re servicing the ones they got right at the beginning. Things dry up, and soon they’re at zero clients and wondering what happened.
It’s a great boost to your confidence to get clients early on, but you can’t let that make you complacent!
You have to consistently work on finding new clients – day in, day out. Don’t get cocky, keep pressing.
I hope Rowley blossoms into an All Star for the Blue Jays, but I’m remaining cautiously optimistic about it …
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