Let's imagine a basketball game.

Our team gets off to a slow start, with turnovers, shots won't go down, etc...

End of the 1st quarter, our team is down 30-10. Losing big.

In the second quarter, our team outscores the opponent 30-15. We're down 45-40 at halftime.

The third quarter is another good one for our side and we outscore them 30-15 again. 70-60 at the end of the third quarter. Also, their star player has been injured and will miss the rest of the game. Three more of their starters have 5 fouls.

With five minutes remaining in the game, we're up by 30 points and all three of those starters have fouled out.

The game ends and we have won by 40 points, a blowout.

When did we win the game? Was it when the clock ran out and it was certain we had won?

Was it when it became extremely unlikely for them to win, at the end of the third quarter?

When it was next to impossible with five minutes left?

When did we START winning? Sometime in the third quarter, right?

Or did we start winning the moment we stopped losing some time in the second quarter, as we began chipping their lead away?

You can be winning for a long time without it feeling like winning. Or without people being able to recognize that you are winning.

"Winning" doesn't mean the game is over and it doesn't mean you don't still have to play hard and execute.

Everyone wants the game to be over so they can know "we won" and then what... go back to "the way things were before"? Like, when we were not winning?

This game we're actually in doesn't end. The purpose is to keep winning all the time. Sub out if you need a rest, but at least recognize when you're winning. Keep doing the things that worked. Do more of them.

"Trump being President again" isn't the end of the game.

At what point will you accept that we are winning? If you don't have an answer, maybe the issue isn't what you think it is.

(AbsoluteTruth1776)