People are 
still buzzing about the BCS College Championship game and the shutout of Alabama over LSU. One Facebook post said that LSU didn’t even show up! So what happened?
Like anything else, when you go several weeks without playing (practicing, teaching, or doing whatever else it is that you do – in this case, playing football), you are naturally a little rusty. In this case the LSU team was “out of practice” at the game, which is just one of the reasons to explain their loss. When you aren’t “in the game” regularly, you lose your edge.
Did you see the movie Sex and the City 2? If you were a fan of the “Sex and the City” series, one of the things that really made the show successful was the chemistry between the actresses who were the stars of the show. When you work with people on a regular basis, you can almost begin to recognize and anticipate their movements. This is why the show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” worked so well, unlike Sex and the City 2. By the time the second movie was made, too much time had passed, and the actresses no longer worked together on a regular basis – their comic timing and chemistry were gone.
Being in the game on a regular basis is important. This holds true for nearly any profession. I have known professional speakers who said they wanted to “speak less and earn more.” While on the surface that sounds like an admirable goal, the reality is that you lose your edge if you aren’t speaking or “playing the game” on a regular basis. As Bill Barren says, “Success comes from being in the game, and doing things every day better than you did before!”
So how about you – are you “in the game” on a regular basis?
