A Teens Game Plan By Lou Holtz: Play Analysis

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In the book “A Teens Game Plan”: by Lou Holtz there are five plays, each play introducing the reader to different styles of life choices that have positive outcomes or negative outcomes. Choices like the ones that I have made in the past that would be considered negative choices. Choices that almost always never end good.
In play one “Choosing Your Attitude”: it talks about how little things can wear at you and bug you and ruin your mood ultimately. It also explains how God gave us power to think and choose and to also imagine these choices as having a positive outcome. Choices can mean everything, if you make bad choices bad things will happen, if you make good decisions good things will happen. It also goes on to say that If you choose to have a good attitude you can be
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Play three is get rid of excuses to be successful you must have no excuses to anything.Excuses is just a way of getting out of something you did.Which is not good because if you keep using excuses you aren't doing what you are supposed to do.To be successful you must throw away all of your excuses no matter what.
Play Four is understand what you are trying to do.It is important because if you are just moving forward with no plans you are just setting yourself up for failure.If you move forward without a plan you will not be successful.For example going into a super bowl without a gameplan or talking in front of millions of people and not knowing what to say it's like giving a speech but just winging it.If you don't have a plan you are just setting yourself up for

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