Christmas break is here, and I am a happy coach. Just a week ago, I was miserable. Isn't life funny? I can somehow slip in and out of balance because of a simple game I coach. The objective is to put an orange, round ball into a basket. If we score more than our opponent, we win! If we don't, the sky is falling – or so it seems. Rudyard Kipling, a Victorian poet, wrote an insightful poem If– and did a beautiful job addressing this matter of perspective. In it he says: If you