100 Percent from 10 Percent

Living in Melbourne's West has been an incredible experience this past weekend with the Western Bulldogs winning their first grand final in 62 years. The passion, the belief, the palpable emotions and excitement of fans has been infectious. Not only for a team to win after such a long drought but to win from behind is a credit to their belief and hard work.

When captain Bob Murphy was sidelined for the year with a knee injury in round 3, the senior coach Luke Beveridge said the club had not panicked and stated "The probability of that time we didn't make it here (to the Grand Final) is probably really high, probably 90 percent - even higher," he said. "So there's a 10 percent possibility that we get there. We're 100 percent on the possibility. And I suppose that's what the boys did. We attacked the possibility. So if we were 100 percent of 10 percent, we ended up being 100 percent of everything. That's the thing - you've got to stay glass half full..." *

Attacking the possibility. Whatever the arena, we all suffer injuries and can often feel like we start from behind. They might include the death of a child or marriage, significant downturns in business, career ending events, mental or physical health challenges, financial issues, the sense of talent lack and so forth. The comment from Beveridge relates to most of us at one point or another on lifes journey. To do our absolute best with what we feel we have (or have left) - whether that be 10%, 50% or 80%; to stay the course with the view of the glass half full; to at times absorb the pain of discipline and hard work rather than the pain of defeat - all keys to pushing forward to victory.

If you feel that you are starting from behind, that you've suffered setbacks of one kind or another, you're in good company. Build on what you have and attack it with 100 percent focus. You never know... you just might, like the Doggies, end up passing all the others who seemed closer to 100%.

* Quoted from the Sun Herald Oct 2, 2016