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Lessons from Sports: Creating Chances

The Football fever is on and there might be hardly one who doesn’t watch the football match.
Football is the most energetic game and almost everyone likes to play as well as watch it but did you

ever try to get a message that it delivers? While analyzing the statistics of a football match, there are
a few crucial statistics one must focus on. First and foremost is obviously the score of the match.

Secondly the possession of the ball- which team is in more control of the game? And lastly, how
many opportunities to score goals did each team have? There is very simple correlation between
these statistics that delivers a meaningful message- ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’.

This message is so true not only in football, basketball or any other sport, but also in many aspects
of our lives. If we don’t take chances or initiatives, we won’t be successful. In order for us to score

and win in life, don’t we (like footballers in a match) need to create those goal-scoring opportunities?
Don’t we need to actively create situations that will pave our way towards victory? Of course YES!

Let’s suppose that you are job hunting and you expect to get a job by sending your CV or resume to
a few companies and expect them to offer you your dream job, Know that it is highly unlikely. On the
other hand, if you actively put yourself in situations where you increase your employability –by
attending a specific course or thoroughly researching a company-before sending your application to

them, aren’t you giving yourself a greater chance to bag that job you aspire to? In essence, you must
ask yourself, “Am I putting myself in a position to win and achieve my targets?”