Finisher's Know Where They Are

Kansas Jayhawks made it into the Championship Game.

KU is the team I cheer for after I cheer for Davidson.

KU played an amazing game, almost gave it away, and then re-focused to pull away for the win.

I was thinking about the game and wondering why that happens so often in sports and in life. I was just talking to a friend last week about getting close to a goal and then losing focus.

Why is it that just when all the hard work and focus are finally paying off, I am getting work like I want to, or KU goes up by 28 in the first half...there comes a point when you lose focus.

If you were to ask someone what they were doing at that moment, (as I am sure Bill Self was doing!), they would probably be able to tell you the game plan, or they would tell you something that got under their skin, or ... I don't know.

Finisher's figure out where they are at that moment. They figure out what they are doing, what the other team is doing, and they figure out what is going on in their head.

And that is what Kansas did. They "woke up", they snapped out of it. They did what a lot of teams would not have been able to do...they RE-focused.

Bill Self re-calibrated his game plan...or he thumped it back into his team's heads.

I often find myself wandering off course. Why do I do that?

I don't know...but I think the big lesson here is that even the BEST champions (or almost champions!) do it. AND, it's what you do AFTER you lose focus that counts.

The Finisher's Quality then, isn't being focused ALL the time...it is knowing where you are...it is refocusing when you lose focus.

Great Finishers have the ability to ReFocus.