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Long term readers of these blogs may know that I’m lucky enough to help out for a lesson a week in the primary school my middle son goes to (and eldest son used to attend).
I say lucky – I work 15+ hour Mondays to give that, and other, flexibility later in the week.
The other day we were doing High Fives (netball) in P.E.
I was running a drill where one team had to pass the ball between themselves in a circle.
While the other team ran in turn round a larger circle around the first circle.
Most completed passes before the other team have completed their ‘relay’ wins.
When we finished, I called them all in and gave them some feedback.
One bit of feedback was based on what I’d noticed from a child I’ll call Billy (real names have been changed to protect the innocent).
As I’m sure you can imagine, the key to maximum completed passes in a set time period is to make the passes both quick and easy to catch.
“It’s your team mate, not the opposition” I kept telling some of them as they launched wild passes that were unlikely to be caught.
“Pass to hands”.
In most cases when a pass was poor and not caught, the thrower would immediately blame the receiver.
“Reach for it” they’d shout.
“You could’ve moved”.
That’s not what “Billy” did.
When his pass wasn’t as good as it could’ve been he simply said “Sorry”.
He recognised his part in what had happened.
Acknowledged and accepted it and would learn from it.
It’s human nature to want to blame others.
Even when something is entirely our fault.
To take that ‘onus of control’ away from ourselves.
To absolve ourselves from responsibility.
It’s tempting to do it with our less good food and lifestyle choices.
“It was my husband / wife / kids / boss / friend’s fault” we may say.
And, sure, they may have made it harder.
We get that.
But (hopefully), they didn’t pin us down and force the food down our throats.
They are factors, yeah.
But if we don’t accept our substantial role in what happened, then we’ll never learn.
We’ll never improve.
We’ll just keep making the same mistakes again and again.
Day after day, week after week, year after year (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting for details of how to take the next step with us if you’re ready to ‘correct’ some of these ‘mistakes’).
Don’t be like the other kids and blame others for the equivalent of not catching a poor pass.
Ideally, do a ‘good pass’.
And, if that doesn’t happen, learn from it and make it less likely to happen next time!
Much love,
Jon ‘The Kid’ Hall and Matt ‘Jean is not my lover’ Nicholson
