The dive play is the most basic play in the game. Objective: gain a yard. The quarterback takes the center, pivots, and delivers the ball to the fullback, who hits the line of scrimmage, head-on. The goal is to gain a yard or two. It’s not pretty, and it rarely creates a great play, but it builds confidence by creating a clear goal and achieving it. Simply put, if you don’t have the drive and determination to gain a yard, how the hell would you expect to score a touchdown?

Finding something assumes you are looking for it! Finding your Butkus, in essence, means finding something you already own. It is already a part of you, perhaps hidden deep within your psyche or, more likely, simply hidden in a simple place. Right under your nose, in your heart.

In Kevin Costner’s film “A Field if Dreams,” his character, Ray Kinsella, hears a voice from the cornfield: “If you build it, he will come.” You are asked to trust a whisper and listen to a feeling. The voice wants him to listen and then act, completely by faith.

While tall corn may not be calling you, I’m sure you’ve had an inspired thought while showering or driving a car. A feeling that says take action.

His Butkus, I tell him with a wink, is slightly to the south reaching and meeting his rear. With both hands I could add! Maybe the reason you haven’t found your Butkus yet is because you’re sitting on it!

So what is a Butkus?

No, it’s not But-Kis, it’s pronounced But-Kus. You say it deliberately, and always with attitude. If you’re a sports fan, you’ve probably heard the name, Dick Butkus. In fact, most people in North America have heard that name, although they may not know who or what it is.

And yes, it is a strange name.

But there is nothing funny about the image or the iconic status that this name represents. As a four-year-old, when I first heard this name and saw Dick Butkus’s NFL image, I was intrigued. Actually, it was more like, “in awe”.

NFL Films statuses; “Dick Butkus played football with a religious fervor, with a relentless obsession, not to excel, but to dominate and demoralize. For Dick Butkus it was never a game, but a street fight, a place for everyone, a war without restrictions. Butkus He was the game’s most destructive defender and the NFL is full of stories of the men who crossed paths with him. He was a force of unmanageable proportions; he was Moby Dick in a fish tank. His career stands as the most sustained work of devastation in history. . committed on a soccer field by anyone, anywhere, at any time. “

Dick Butkus is remembered as the toughest man to ever play professional soccer. A guy who, whatever happens; I would not quit. He never won a championship or a Superbowl; Hell, his team was so bad they didn’t even make it to a playoff game. However, that didn’t stop him from becoming one of the best players in NFL history.

As a twelve-year-old soccer player myself, I wanted to be Dick Butkus. Everything from his hulking gait to the colors on his uniform was formidable. It all captured my imagination. His linebacker stance, crouching like a cougar ready to pounce, was intimidating enough. But when he moved, fully engaged, he launched himself with reckless abandon; he was like no other player on the field.

Butkus, for me, became a metaphor for movement and a symbol of effort and achievement. No matter what the odds are, you never give up. If I summoned my Butkus, I knew what to do and when to do it.

Now that I have painted a picture of what Butkus looked like and how important it was, I must tell you that I didn’t get it right away. In fact, it took me over thirty years to understand. I had to search deep within my memories to find something that I thought I already knew.

And that is the problem! “Having means nothing if you don’t know how to use” is a topic for later discussion, but for now, it’s safe to say; simply knowing something does not make it valuable.

Well-informed people are typically overworked, underpaid, and looked down upon not only by others, but, for the most part, by themselves. Michelangelo, the great artist (not the ninja turtle) says, “The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our goal too high and falling short, but in setting our goal too low and achieving the goal.”

Have you been achieving the low side of what you ask for? Looking for success in all the wrong places? They taught you, like me, that opportunities required years of suffering to achieve. Are they out of your control? Were you told to learn more, create skills you didn’t have, and go to places set by someone else? Then when you arrived, you told him again, it would be hard, in fact life was hard. You needed to be tough and learn to put up with what you don’t want, to get what you do! Shit.

I mean, what you want – wants you, what you seek seeks you. What you want simply does not exist, more exactly, it already exists within you. It is not difficult, but yes, it is intense and requires your full attention. Have you heard, am I sure of the natural laws of the universe? I maintain that the “Law of Attraction” does not exist as an external magnet to get what you want, but rather synchronizes your desires to give you more than what you already have.

In the movie ‘The Lion King’, Mufasa called out to his son, Simba, from heaven, ordering him “Remember who you are!” Your job is to find, maybe just remember “what it is you already own.” Find your Butkus will guide you.

Strike that; Remember who you are! Find your own words, Find your ??? in the life!

Like the basic scuba game, create a target you can trust, one that builds confidence. Keep it simple, something as warm as a puppy. Guaranteed to gain a yard whenever you need it. Just feeling good can put you in the right frame of mind to begin to realize what is important.

It is not discovering what works in life, no, it is finding your bliss. Trust me, if my dream was a guy named Dick Butkus, can what you want to be crazier? Open the door to your desires, listen to your dream field, and then allow all the people, places, and things that you desire to come to you.

Bob Mueller is an EMMY AWARD winner. Use the Finding Your Butkus story in Key Note Speeches, Training & Coaching. http://www.encontrandotubutkus.com