I absolutely love professional sport, especially Australian Rules Football – to see the finely tuned athletes apply their craft in arguably one of the world’s best stadiums, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, is a privilege. The way the players are able to combine as a team, to make the movement of the football seem effortless, to the point where the ball quite often does not hit the ground for minutes at a time, is sensational to watch. And in watching these professionals go about their work, we can sometimes sit back and ‘wish’ we were like them, to have their ability, and their precision with the skills and fitness. It is also somewhat easy to overlook the amount of work that these athletes have invested over time to reach that level of expertise, because we merely see the outcome or output of years of dedicated focus and application. Whilst these players started their professional career with ‘talent’, they have had to invest in and develop that talent constantly over time to earn the right and opportunity to play professional sport at the highest level. That investment has been a relentless and focussed approach to their daily activity. Their success did not develop and happen overnight – it was determined by their daily agenda, repeated over time. Continue reading →