How to always be in the right place at the right time

​I had a friend text me before the 49ers and Rams playoff game last night. She asked, "who are you rooting for here?" I told her, I'm really just a spectator in this one. But, I would like to see Matthew Stafford - the Rams quarterback - make it to the Super Bowl after the way he endured the Lions for so many years.

For those who aren't football fans - prior to coming to the Rams at the start of this season - a solid team even before Stafford arrived - Stafford spent 12 years with the Detroit Lions.

The Lions, well let's just say they were not as solid over the course of his time there....

Stafford and the Rams won last night. Stafford is indeed going to the Super Bowl.

As I was getting ready for bed after the game, I realized what a bad choice of words 'endured' was. The truth is, Stafford never saw his time with the Lions as a wrong place wrong time situation - something to survive. He always trained hard - he played hard - he always approached his time there like it was exactly his right place and right time moment.

Last night, as they were interviewing him following the victory, he said the same things I always heard him say after a Lions game - which by the way was NEVER a game sending them to the Super Bowl.

He said, I love my teammates. I love where I am. I'm thankful for the chance to play.

I think we all get to moments in life where we think - surely I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know I do. But maybe that feeling has nothing to do with our place. Maybe it has nothing to do with our time. Maybe it has everything to do with our vision. Our attitude.

I went to sleep last night thinking maybe life is about making every moment the right place and right time. Thinking maybe we're to focus more on what we do with our moments than how we feel about them. Because the truth is, if we get to feeling like we're in the wrong place at the wrong time - chances are we'll start acting like it.

In two weeks, we will see Stafford in the Super Bowl. It will be easy for us to think - good for him after what he endured in those tough Detroit days. But Stafford, he'll run on to the field and do exactly what he did in those tough days. He'll play like he's in the right place at the right time.

It's Monday. It's a good day to reflect on where you are. If you're feeling like maybe I'm waking up in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe the best way to address that feeling is by tackling this day like you are in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

If you do that, then you will be. You'll be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.