When you grow up as a kid in the Boston area in the 80’s, you invariably learn the hero’s are played by the guys wearing green and white while the villains wear purple and gold. Yet, today we lost one of our greatest heroes that this game has ever seen. 🙏
For anyone who says they weren’t a Kobe fan, I challenge you to spend some in the next few days learning about him, his tireless work ethic and thirst to be the best and keep improving. What drove him? His desire to be the best was based on his pure love and enjoyment of the game. 👍
So many of the players today I see want to be the best and say they are willing to commit to achieving that goal yet never follow through with their actions. The reasons for why they bail can vary but at its core, they don’t really love the activity / sport. Make sense right? Why would you want to commit to hours upon hours, sacrifices like no other if you’re just not into something? 🤷♂️
But take sport out of this discussion for a moment. Let’s think about this, anyone who you know who is really good at a certain craft (cooking, music, art) is so because they absolutely love the said activity. They equally love the process just as much as the result. ❤️ .
Kobe’s passing is truly unfortunate and not because we lost of the games greatest players but we lost a man who embodied the principles of hard work and sacrifice to achieve success. A worthwhile principle I hope all parents reading this will consider for how we raise our kiddos and the activities we select for them to partake in. Instead of pushing our kids into certain sports based our own affiliation and history with that sport, lets instead focus providing unconditional love and support in whatever activity they express passion. If we do that, we probably will not raise the next greatest basketball player but hopefully the next Kobe Bryant of engineering or education.🧑🏻🎓 .
RIP Kobe. Thank you.
