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						<h2>If You Do Not Crusade For Your Own Success Who Will?</h2>
						<b>Coach Freeborn’s Success Paradigm</b><br><br>

							By Roger Freeborn<br>

						Published: Spring 2001
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						Your own personal success should come first.  It should be your top priority.  Too often we get so caught up in doing other things for other people that we forget to put ourselves first.  And it must be a Crusade.  The definition of a Crusade is:  any vigorous concerted movement for a cause undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm.  What better cause than your own personal success?  Become a zealot while working on and for yourself.<br>	Adults often encourage students to get a job under the guise that they are learning “Responsibility.” Sports Illustrated, a number of years ago, cited a study which set out to determine the Number 1 indicator of future success shared by adults who are top performers in our society--the activity that they most had in common from their formative years. They learned it was not their G.P.A., their SAT score, or the job that they had during high school. They discovered the number one predictor of success as an adult was successful participation in extra-curricular activities as a teen. How responsible is it when adults encourage youngsters to go to work instead of turning out for the team?<br>	Frosty Westerling, Pacific Lutheran University football coach, authored a great book, Make The Big Time Where You Are.   Every one is involved in something.  Wherever you are; whatever you are doing; make the big time where you are. <br>	I am involved in education.  Every year I witness students living their life in absentia.  They have their priorities turned around.  They forego participation in activities and programs that society provides them as teenagers.  Instead, they look foÆ!p"  