Risk & Business Magazine JGS Insurance Spring 2020 | Page 4

DO YOUR JOB
Do Your
Job! Just
Do It . . .
P
lease excuse the sports
references, however, at the time
of writing this, we are fresh off
the comeback Super Bowl win
of the Kansas City Chiefs over
the San Francisco 49ers, conversations
regarding the future of legendary New
England Patriot QB Tom Brady, and
the unfortunate deaths of Lakers’ great
Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven
other people heading to a 13-year-old’s
basketball game in a tragic helicopter
crash in California. system put into place by New England
Patriot Coach Bill Belichick and QB Tom
Brady many years back that resulted in
six Super Bowl victories. Their motto:
Do Your Job! Kobe came into the NBA as
a 17-year-old. An early memory of mine
is of him missing shots in a playoff game
in the beginning of his career and his
getting off the plane back in LA, only to
go directly to the gym and taking 1,000
shots like the one he missed, committing
to himself that it would never happen
again. The rest is history.
Excellence in athletics, and the work
that goes into achieving excellence in
that arena, have always been correlated
with the rest of us and the goals we set to
assure we are successful in our work and
personal lives. Kansas City Chiefs Coach
Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, QB
of the Chiefs, seem to be emulating the Obviously, none of these teams would
have the success they achieved without a
supporting cast, but as the saying goes, “a
team is only as good as their best player”
and the effort set forth by that individual.
Why not be your team’s best player and
make everyone around you better? Just
do it . . .
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These have always been ideals I have
subscribed to over my years in the
insurance industry, but a recent car
purchase has catapulted it into the
forefront of my thought process. Several
weeks ago, I purchased a new car (I won’t
mention from where or from whom to
protect the guilty). We all know this is
not the most comfortable experience, but
this time around took the cake.
I went to the dealership around 2 p.m.
after making an appointment through
the internet sales director. I knew the
exact vehicle I wanted to purchase as I
had done extensive research online. She
put me together with a salesperson who
took us on a test drive. By 3 p.m., I was
off to the bank to get a certified check for
the down payment, and by 5 p.m., I had
signed all the paperwork, left my trade-in
at the dealership, and drove off with a