Hard Work!!!

A few weekends ago I attend a basketball game that my friends daughter was playing in. Good fun. While I was there I ran into one of the older guys I used to play basketball with back in the day when I was a teen. Years have passed and now I guess I'm in that role of being a "seasoned" vet. So I thought.

Anyways, we had a face to face discussion about coaching basketball to kids and what not. It's sort of the thing to do when you've aged out of serious competing i guess. A passing of the torch, giving the knowledge learned to the new generation stepping in. I told him that i can't see myself coaching a group but i could see myself doing one-on-one training. Breaking a players flaws and trying to correct them would be what I'd be best at. Just knowing that it wouldn't be fair to coach 15 to 13 players. He told me I should partake and coach regardless if I think that would be my speciality. He believes that every little thing, even such things as doing one-on-ones, is vital and should be shared. It's like giving back to all those who did it for us. Which I fully believe and can stand behind. He also said, "Over time maybe the thing that you think you're best at might branch off or expand into a better understanding behind coaching altogether. To become good or the best at anything it takes hard work. But you knew that already!" Honestly I did. But at that moment, I couldn't help but fell like I was a youth on the ball court being roughed up by the vets - taking a body check when I thought I was brazen enough to drive the lane too casually. Learning the game as I counted my lumps.

Now he was teaching me with his words and the greater wisdom he earned. I'm grateful for the wake up call. What he said is nothing new to anybody and doesn't just apply to basketball alone. Obviously! Will I end up coaching? Probably in some form or capacity, but right now I'm at a turning point in my life where I have to take serious steps in building my career and to better myself. I've dedicated the last ten years to learning under one of the greats in the animation industry. I want to create my own stories both live and animated. I want to have my scripts fly off the page and onto film (if the be the case). I want to share the ideas that have been spinning in this enclosed space sitting on my neck. And to do that it's going to take serious dedication, plotting, and a lot of HARD WORK!!!