October has been filled with a large dose of football. I have watched my high school win the city championship over their rival, the Wolverines win an important night game, and the Lions win a thriller overseas. What I took away from all these wins was everything you do on a team, big or small, matters to the overall goal.

On teams with success, you usually look at the stars of the team and how well they did individually, but in order to really appreciate the win, you have to look at the people who don’t get mentioned. In these three games, the guys who deserve credit is the guy who made that key block, the holder for holding the ball, and that player for making that play away from the ball. All of those actions mattered.

In this past challenge with RecoveryPark, I was one of thirty five people, I was on one of eight teams, and I was a member of a team of four. I could look at the numbers and decide to do very minimal due to the amount of other people doing work, however, I did not. I took it upon myself to have my work matter. I was not the team lead nor was I the voice to present our deliverables on the final day. What I did do is give names of high end restaurants and grocery stores in the metro area, generate questions to ask restaurant owners, generate a phone script for interviews, stayed back to represent our team while the rest of the team went on an interview, took pictures at an interview, and transcribed interviews. Although those actions are not what will go on paper, they all mattered  in the final product.

Whether the job is grand or a grain in size, it is important to the final product. With that, take every task head on, execute with maximum ability, and make it matter.

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