No basketball fan old enough to remember the 1992 Olympics will ever forget The Dream Team. Described by basketball historians as “the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet,” it included Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, Christian Laettner, and Charles Barkley. To no one’s surprise, Team USA crushed its opponents by an average of 44 points per game to win the Olympic gold.
Those players reached the pinnacle of their abilities by striving for excellence year after year. As we move into the new year, I’m resolving to make 2025 my Year of the Dream Team. I hope to assemble all the people and elements I need to help me grow my business and my youth basketball program to a level I have never achieved before.
Building your own personal Dream Team requires first identifying your goals. That goal was the gold medal for the U.S. basketball team in 1992. For an individual, it may be improved health and well-being or greater financial freedom. For young adults in their early 20s, a Dream Team might include their mom, dad, uncle, or others who can help them achieve their dreams.
“AsthegreatcoachJohnWoodensaid, ‘It takes time to create excellence. If it were easy, more people would do it.’”
One of my objectives is to build an even more successful practice.
To accomplish that, I want to identify all the areas where things aren’t moving as fast as they should. To achieve our goal of helping people get better faster, I am considering whether we need to bring in additional staff. The new Dream Team member might be another physical therapist, enabling us to see more patients. They might be an assistant who can help us bring patients in for treatment more quickly. Perhaps the new member would be someone who can reach out to past patients we haven’t seen in a while to see if they have problems or pain we could help them resolve.
For my youth basketball program, Flint’s Finest, I want to build an even more successful program, so I intend to identify the staff positions that will help me accomplish that. I may need additional coaches to work with the kids or administrative staff to handle other tasks.
The next step is identifying the players you want on your Dream Team. A common saying is that it takes a village to raise a child. Finding your Dream Team is really all about finding yourvillage. A person with health issues may want to enlist the right physician to help. A person struggling with back pain may need to find a good general practitioner, a physical therapist, or a neurologist, depending on the cause of their pain. Someone with a neurological disorder such as multiple sclerosis may need to seek out a primary care physician, a neurologist, a physical therapist, a specialist in orthotics, or a physiatrist who treats nervous system and skeletal disorders.
If your goal is greater personal and professional development, consider contacting a personal development consultant or coach who can guide you toward improved performance and greater satisfaction. As readers of this newsletter know, I have been striving to achieve and expand my professional and personal development goals for years. I am not done yet! As the great coach John Wooden said, “It takes time to create excellence. If it were easy, more people would do it.”
Why not make 2025 youryear of the Dream Team? What assets do you need to assemble, and whom do you need to engage to help you build the most successful year possible? As you consider your resolutions this new year, I hope these questions will help!
