Design Your Own Game Plan

Take a page from Bill Walsh’s book, a former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. He came off as eccentric because of how extensively he planned his plays in advance of each game. Other coaches would respond to plays as the game unfolded, not Billy. Walsh carried with him a long list of plays his team would run, no matter what, because he wanted the other team to respond to him. Walsh won many Super Bowls with his unorthodox proactive approach to coaching football. ⠀

But Billy Walsh’s plays and tactics were not revolutionary. What was revolutionary was that he understood and applied the crucial difference between being reactive vs. proactive. The way he wanted his team to play was to create, not respond.

You can create your own plans in advance so that your life will respond to you. If you believe that your life is about creation than reaction, a very different experience of life opens to you—one in which you are involved with life at its very essence and one where life responds to you than the other way around. ⠀