The Deathcrawl

This week in my middle school guidance classes I have been showing a clip from the movie Facing the Giants. In the clip, the coach calls the players out on having bad attitudes and already writing off their next game as a loss. He asks one player in particular to do the "deathcrawl" by himself--an exercise in which the players walk on their hands and feet carrying another player on their backs--basically bearing the weight of themselves and the other player almost entirely on their arms. He tells the player, Brock, that he wants him to give him his very best. When Brock agrees, the coach then tells him he wants him to do it blindfolded.

The other players have all just finished doing the same exercise and had gone 20 yards. Brock starts out with the coach's encouragement. When he begins to get tired, the coach urges him on. At first the other players are laughing at their teammate having to do the deathcrawl again, but as Brock keeps going on and on, not being able to see how far he has gone, the other players begin to stand up and watch him, wondering how far he is actually going to go.

Brock begins to lose strength. The coach gets down with him and yells things like, "Keep going! Five more steps! Don't you quit on me!" On and on it goes. Finally, Brock collapses, almost in tears, dripping sweat, and saying, "It has to be the fifty! I got nothin' left!" The coach removes the blindfold from Brock and says, "Look up Brock. You're in the in-zone." He had done the deathcrawl for 100 yards, thinking he was only going to be able to go 50 at the most!

After the clip I asked the classes, "Would he have been able to go that far if he had not been blindfolded? The answer was a chorus of "no" from the students. They understood, intuitively, that if we believe we are only capable of going to the 50-yard line, we will only make it to the 50-yard line. Whatever we believe our limits to be, that is what our limits will be.

What is one of your limiting beliefs? Do you believe that you are not smart enough? Not good-looking enough? Too busy? Too damaged? Whatever you believe will turn out to be true--we subconsciously find ways to make ourselves right. Sometimes, it is more important to us to be right than it is to be happy. Identifying and shifting our limiting beliefs can be one of the most empowering things we can ever learn to do in our lives.

Why stop at the fifty when we could go to the hundred?

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My Quote

When I was in 6th grade, our teacher told us two write something about hands. This is the quote I came up with:

"Free hands are made to free tied hands.

Tied hands are made to put free hands to good use."

What do you think??????????