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Soccer Suspension
Ron Wagner

Ron Wagner

Own your decisions and their consequences.

  • December 19, 2020
  • , 5:50 pm
  • , Lessons Learned, Life and Career, Personal Development

I was 11 and playing soccer in a local youth league for the team pictured here (a gold star to anyone who can find me in the pic).  A teammate took a nasty cheap shot from an opponent so I stepped-in and decked the opponent.  Not the right move, obviously.  I got red-carded then suspended.

I asked my dad to get the suspension lifted.  “It’s not fair”, I said.  “I was sticking up for my teammate.”  My dad’s response was “I can’t help you; you know how you play the game and it finally caught up with you.”  He was right.

The lessons I learned (not so much then, but certainly now) on how to handle difficult situations, adversity, emotional issues:

  • Process the situation, consider your options
  • Keep emotions in check, be calm and objective
  • Focus on being wise and not just right with your actions
  • When you do act, own your decisions and their consequences

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