Our extra-curricular programs are killing it! Football, volleyball, SDD, wrestling, and now basketball, it doesn’t matter. We’re finding consistent success, and it isn’t all that surprising. I do think it is interesting, though.
We see this happen quite often, even at the professional or higher Ed levels. When one team finds success, the Patriots for example, it isn’t uncommon for other teams from the same city to find similar or equal success.
This also happens in families. Take, for example, the Manning family. Archie Manning, the father, found success in football and played a few seasons in the NFL. He then had three sons, two of which won two Super Bowls. Is it because that family has just been blessed with an unidentifiable football gene? Maybe. But I’m guessing not. Rather, I would argue that success begets success. (Shaw, if I’m wrong on this, say nothing . . . I like my little theory;)
We for sure have a talented young group of kids who have supportive families, excellent coaches, and an encouraging school that backs and cares for them. But they are also experiencing success begetting success.
That's inspiring to me, a reminder to me, and an affirmation to surround myself with "successful" (whatever that means) people. Be it in relationships, goals, work ethic, or mindset, people who get after it, who attack setbacks and maintain positive attitudes and healthy perspectives, those are the type of people I want to surround myself with, whom I want to listen to and hear from because their success can and will beget not only my success, but our success.
Because success begets success.