I joined a couple of folks who were kicking around a football/soccer ball in a park with a couple of small sized goal posts. There was a spunky young kid playing in goal with 3 of us taking shots.
When the ball was passed to me, I curled a couple of beautiful goals in. Top corner, hard to stop.
A few minutes later, a bigger adult swapped as the goalkeeper. My remaining 3 shots were all over the place – nowhere near the goal.
Somehow, the sight of the bigger goalkeeper got me shooting everywhere but the goal. In my attempts to outdo this keeper, I couldn’t get the basics right. In that process, my odds of beating this keeper went straight to zero.
It got me thinking about how we can often lose battles completely in our heads. More often than not, simple is best.
But simple is hard.
