24. Run your own plays
Design your own life’s game plan. Let the game respond to you rather than the other way around. Be like Bill Walsh, the former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Everybody thought he was eccentric because of how extensively he planned his plays in advance of each game. Most coaches would wait to see how the game unfolded, then respond with plays that reacted to the other team. Not Bill Walsh. Walsh would pace the sidelines with a big sheet of plays that his team was going to run, no matter what. He wanted the other team to respond to him. Walsh won Super Bowls with his unorthodox proactive approach. But all he did was to act on the crucial difference between creating and reacting.
Many of us can spend whole days reacting ...
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