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When you are searching for success, and passionate about achieving that goal the score must always be 0-0. What does that mean? That means whether it is your partner in life, your team, your colleagues, your family, anyone; do not keep score. You did the dishes and made dinner one night. Point for you, Zero for your partner. No, wrong answer. I'm guilty of this still but you need to stop keeping score.

You showed up early for practice and stayed late to clean up, but you were the only one. There's no score or points to keep track of because here's what you don't know. Maybe your teammate just worked a 10 hour shift and still has to go home to do homework. Maybe your teammate has had a horrible day dealing with bullying at school or unwarranted drama. It is not about keeping score as much as it is about understanding that we all have an agenda, we all have stuff we are working through. It's not about what someone else did or did not do, you don't control that. You control yourself and how you respond. You control your agenda and your goal should be to work on the tasks at hand that you hope to complete. Finding success will not come when you are focussed on what everyone around you in doing or not doing. Success will come when you begin placing your energy and focus on what you need to do.

Closing with one of my favorites, don't just talk about it, be about it.