Wednesday; April 29
A lot of people are quite familiar with the witticisms of Yogi Berra; but how many of us are familiar with Casey Stengel? Charles Stengel was around the game of baseball for generations. While he may not have been as humorous as Yogi, he was quite insightful on his own. The other day, I came across a couple of Casey’s quotes – the first one was, “Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”. In a sports world filled with talented athletes, this is as true (or maybe truer) today as it was in Casey’s day. Now, as insightful as this observation was, the one that really got me to thinking was, “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for … reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.”. (As I went back and researched the quote...