Stick with what brought you here

This is a favorite football or wrestling analogy that I hear a lot, but I believe it applies heavily to daily life. A lot of times when a team goes to the super bowl, or the playoffs even, or in wrestling (and yes I know wrestling isn't "real" I used to wrestle for God's sake) when someone went to a championship match, the announcer will stay that a team needs to stick with what brought them there. The tendency is, if you're a team that likes to ground the ball out and you're playing a high scoring team you'll try and pick up your passing game so you can try to match scores with them.  When the fact of the matter is, if you pound the ball and make them stop you, keep their offense off the field so they can't get into a rhythm you're much better off...  In life it's much the same. We take for granted the things that are stable in our lives and work to hard on the things that don't really matter, and don't make us who we are. Why would a man who's happily married with children cheat on his wife? Sure now and then he may succeed in getting that short term goal but in the end, if he's caught, he loses the thing that's important to him.  Now by in no way am I stating that we should never try anything new. I think expanding and learning new things is an important part of our growth as individuals. I think as we enter in the time of year where we are supposed to give thanks, that for me personally and for I hope many of you, we stop and really think about our lives and the things we have to be thankful for. Think about the things that we have day in and day out. Things as simple as having an outlet to write is something I take for granted, but even more so are the friends that listen to what I say and genuinely care about me and the things I'm going through. We can't always get the things we want in life, but we should treasure the things we do have. So whether it be a loving wife, beautiful children, an endless supply of friends, or a simple notebook to jot down ideas, I hope by appreciating everything in life from big to small it will help us stick with what brought us here, and we can all win our "Super Bowls"