Practice Clutch With Pimples
By: Floyd Jordan
Tags: Parenting Advice, Coaching, Improvement, Sports, Parenting

Everyone, and their damn mother, wants to be clutch. We all wanna make the shot at the buzzer and win despite the odds — but then we miss practice.

I’ve sat aged 15 in the back of a cop car with a friend’s gun hidden in my pants (real).

Then went dumb dick first into fatherhood at age 17.

By 27 I was fatter than the offensive linemen we watched Sunday (also real).

Simply put: a rich education of poor decisions left me very motivated to understand the art of a comeback — how to be clutch. It’s the only way I’m winning.

Then today it smacked me in the damn face!

Starting this comeback coaching is important to me. My purpose on this earth is to positively empower others to make comebacks in their lives, like I’d rather die trying this than living any other way. But that takes people.

So to get people, I’m staring to use this thing called FaceBook to help empower and engage with others. I read somewhere they suggest a current picture of your face. Who knew?

I wrote that shit down. It was happening TODAY — I’m posting a new photo and going to rip my chest open on then internet!

New picture, logo’s for the business site… SHIT IS HAPPENING!

I’m talking to myself this morning. Just getting excited to work…. And then BAAM! I see it.

A fucking pimple.

I preach all this stuff to the internet and my kid, I gotta practice it.

I can’t miss practice today.

The pimple isn’t something I can control. I need to let go of that to hold supreme focus on what I can control. After all, isn’t that what clutch is?

Want it, practice it.

Buzzer beaters happen because of things not in your control (past poor performance), otherwise you’d be winning by 50 and not need the damn comeback. You’re shooting it to win at the end because you didn’t play as well as you would’ve liked throughout. Stuff didn’t go the way you planned — obviously you still wanna win. Hopefully you practiced taking shots when fate puts a blemish on your day.

When your family faces a crisis where lives and relationships are won and lost — obviously things didn’t go as you would’ve liked. You want the ability to have that difficult conversation and be better than you’ve been. Its difficulty is only equaled by its importance. If you think your family won’t have a blemish then you’re not only wrong — you’re not practiced. And that is dangerous.

No matter what people post on facebook, every family gets a pimple — even if they don’t tell the internet about it.

All this makes me think:

If I post the picture of my pimpled face, what’s the risk? What’s the reward?

What if I just do it like Nike and make today’s practice by posting that pimpled picture?

Would it hurt my chances of making clutch comebacks through adversity?

Could it make me a weaker man when my family needs a comeback? What about a stronger one?

I made practice — look at my profile pic.

Don’t say you want to be clutch and make the comeback… Go practice!

You have to share it to keep it.

-Floyd

Admittedly the stuff I talk about is tricky — but important. If you’re hungry and ready to work I’d potentially like to help. To learn more message or email jordancomebackcoaching@gmail.com