3 Types of People in this world - #NationalAnthemProtest 🏆👑

Published: Fri, 09/29/17

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3 Types of People in this world - #NationalAnthemProtest

I have talked to many of you asking if/how you were talking to your teams about what is going on in the NFL with the National Anthem protests.

Here is what was discussed on the team I coach:

There are 3 types of people in this world.

These are hats we all wear at times. But getting the right balance is the key.

The Watchers
The Talkers
The Doers

There is a time and place for each one. The healthiest balance I have found is:

Think about one of the best agents for social change our country has ever seen, Martin Luther King Jr. We remember his 'I have a dream' speech and the march on Washington. But I recently have been reading about his life, and the protests were a small percentage of what he was all about. He spent most of his time visiting struggling communities and finding ways to help them. And he struggled with dedicating 1/7 of his time to 'watching,' or resting, and this paid a toll on his relationship with his family.

So the challenge I gave to our team was to spend less time debating whether one side is disrespecting minorities or the other side is disrespecting our military and police.

Spend that time instead doing something about it.

We all agreed we want to respect our military, and we want to respect people of all races.

So we are going to do something about it:

We reached out to a school in our area that has mostly minority students in a struggling economic area. They have a lacrosse team, and we asked their coach if we could partner together to help their team and do a service project together in the community.
We are pursuing a way to support military veterans in our area. We would love to start a wheelchair lacrosse program in Nashville for veterans, although the start-up costs are very high so we are weighing all options.

I hope you have the same type of conversations with your team and your family.

Quit debating which side is right. Less talking. More doing.

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