You can learn something positive from everything in life, it’s all about your perspective. I recently played in a football (soccer, US English) match and I got a lot of life’s lessons you can get from the game. As a result, I have decided to put those lessons in a writing series.
This is the first part in the writing series, “Learning Life’s Lessons from Soccer”. I shall, as time goes on, examine each attribute of the game and what lessons one can pick from it; I choose to start with the goalpost and the goalkeeper.


The goalpost is where the ball is expected to pass through before it’s declared a goal. If the ball does not pass through the goalpost, then there is no possible way that a goal can occur. As expected, in the goalpost, there is a goalkeeper whose major job is to prevent the goal from entering the goalpost and resulting into a goal for the other team. So what life lessons can one possibly learn from this description?


To start with, it is very important that everyone needs to have a ‘goalpost’ in their lives; some particular target, a set goal or plan for their life as without the ‘goalpost’, the lives, in practical sense, does not function. There has to be something you intend to achieve with your life in general or at a particular time. Without the goalpost, the game is non-existent and in its applicability to life, your life, without a certain goal, is like a leaking boat.


To take you back to the description, there’s no other immediate reason for the game apart from winning the game; putting the ball into the goalpost. Live your life in a similar pattern as well, get a ‘goalpost’ and dedicate everything you can into it. Give it all the attention it requires as well as be willing to learn new procedures, new ‘soccer skills’ on how to score the goal. Put into it the expendable energy you have to put into it, it should be the priority.


Now to the goalkeeper, the immediate and ultimate reason why s/he exists is to prevent you, the player, from putting the ball into the goalpost and from scoring. What does this have to do with life? Well, in life, obstacles are bound to come through, for entrepreneurs, it is usually lack of finances, for students, poor grades. So what should you do? Should you refuse to kick the ball simply because the goalkeeper caught your previous shots? No! You keep kicking the ball till it goes in, you should continue looking on to the goalpost and the glory that awaits should you rather than the goalkeeper.
So, get a goalpost, make it your priority and incase the goalkeeper blocks you from scoring, simply learn how s/he did it and make the necessary changes. Getting the ball to pass through the goalpost is the ultimatum.


Reference: http://pensideoftim..com/2015/01/learning-lifes-lessons-from-soccer-1.html