It’s Super Bowl week, which means I’ve scrapped my column that I wrote in favor of a new one.  One about…you guessed it…football!  So let’s take a look at this quote from Pittsburgh Steelers President, Art Rooney, talking about how to select employees:

“Panic doesn’t seem to work,” he said. “Let’s put it that way. There are enough people that seem to have gone through that mode and our feeling is that you pick good people and you try to stick with them if you have good people. There are ups and downs in any sport, but if you have the right people in place, you’ll always have a chance to be successful and that’s what we do. Every year, we have a single goal, and that’s to try and put a championship team on the field and everybody in the organization understands that is the goal. We don’t try and make it too complicated.”

So that raises the question, do you panic?  Do you panic when you’re leading volunteers?  Do you find that you’re on a short leash from your own boss?  Do you panic at the first sign the project isn’t going well?

Panic doesn’t work any better in Corporate USA than it does on the NFL gridiron.

Maybe the reason you aren’t reaching your dreams is that you’re panicking instead of working.  One of the core beliefs of Meaning to Work is that hard work creates success.  So next time you feel panic, maybe you should double down on hard work, and ease up on the panic.  You might be surprised by the results.

photo provided by flickr user Anders Ljungberg

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