{"id":1659,"date":"2017-07-24T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:36:49","slug":"engage-success-with-the-federer-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/engage-success-with-the-federer-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Pounce on Federer’s 5 Word Formula for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Failure five years in a row didn\u2019t stop Roger Federer.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Roger
Roger Federer in action against Marin Clic at 2017 Wimbledon\/Lindsey Parnaby\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let it stop you by using Roger\u2019s five-word formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

You might call it the Federer formula for success, which includes the hard-earned skills of enduring back pain, failure,<\/a><\/span> and defeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After five years of losses in major tournaments, he didn\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Doubt
Doubt like a buzzard\/Brian Zeiler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Like an old man reaching for reading glasses, he switched to a bigger racket in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, old Federer didn\u2019t look like peak Federer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubt hovered like a Texas buzzard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubt was everywhere but in his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubters were everywhere but in his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Federer lost the Wimbledon semi-final last year to a man a decade younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, he took six months off while the media wrote him off to the senior circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next step to brightness is closer than you think<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Author Tim Hansel, when asked about his life-altering fall off a glacier peak, used to say that the reward inherent in any setback is the steps you are taking today to respond and not react.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what Roger did for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After not reacting, he responded at the 2017 Australian Open and dispensed his old foe Rafael Nadal in five sets for the Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Federer
Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal at 2017 Australian Open\/Daily Mirror<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That\u2019s the reward found in all our problems when we reflect on them later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we respond and not react?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federer summarized this in five words while hoisting the 2017 Wimbledon trophy to the dark green stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI kept believing and dreaming.\u201d<\/strong>  R. Federer\/2017 Wimbledon Championship<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Just a few words.  All significant.  All important for our struggle through trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you keep believing you can go really far in life.\u201d<\/strong>  R. Federer\/2017 Wimbledon<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The brilliance in his championship interview is simple but profound. Many people give up on their faith after suffering a few defeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when we give up on our faith, we settle for a scanty version of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took Roger Federer five thorny years to win another tennis major championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas up your energy for the darkest moments<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>Sometimes my feelings are freaking like a beagle with pizza!<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Federer
Don’t let feelings take over like a beagle with pizza!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Please!  Just give me a confident faith with firm steps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us are blessed with a capacity to believe in our abilities and some of us do more than others at the worst of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, the person who trusts God has an extra special energy source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFaith . . . is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.  For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes.  I know that by experience.  Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable:  but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. . . . That is why faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods \u201cwhere they get off,\u201d you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion.\u201d<\/strong>  C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Feed off your feelings<\/a> and your faith will starve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feed off your faith<\/a> and you will go farther than imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have you found effective for responding and not reacting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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