If you watched the Australian Rugby League grand final on Sunday October 04, between Melbourne Storm and Parramatta Eels you would have enjoyed a game between two exciting teams, what you may not have noticed was a young man who had stared adversity in the face and turned it into opportunity.
Melbourne 5/8th Brett Finch had been shown the door by Parramatta after just 4 rounds of the competition. Essentially sacked or made redundant.
Just sit back for a second and imagine you had just been sacked from your highly paid job with your company, told your skills were not wanted, that you did not fit the culture. How would you react, what would your mood be?
Now imagine there are only 11 other companies in Australia that could possibly employ you and most of those have just been through an aggressive recruiting campaign.
I imagine you would feel pretty despondent, feeling as if you had been kicked in the guts and the world had turned against you.
Then Melbourne Storm threw young Brett Finch a lifeline and he applied himself as if he was getting paid top dollar. He trained as hard as everyone else, he played as hard as everyone else, and he used every skill he had to help make the team better.
THE RESULT was he got to stand on the dais later on that Sunday, triumphant as a winner, as a victor over the dream stealers, as a champion of believing in yourself and sticking at it, when most of us would have given up, thrown in the towel, called it quits.
Brett Finch is a shining example to others; that they are capable of far more than they imagine.
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