Super Bowl champion football coach Pete Carroll did it his way with positive energy and a rah-rah approach to winning.

The “defeated” Denver Broncos coach John Fox was more deliberate but no less competent.

Carroll’s team was a defensive monster. 

Fox’s team an offensive monster.

What a matchup.  But somehow it didn’t turn out that way – at least on the field.

Denver quarterback Peyton Manning bluntly admitted it is tough to forget losing the Super Bowl but he forgot to mention that already won one.

Never forget success – make it an IOU and use it again and again.

Coach Fox should be thinking that he is blessed to be alive after emergency heart surgery just a few months before the big game.

I wrote a book about embracing the advantages of disadvantages because we can’t always win but we can always learn from adversity and win another day in some way.  It doesn’t have to be the same way.

Coach Fox who celebrated his 59^th birthday Super Bowl week had it right when he said, “Setbacks are setups for better things to come”.

Always succeeding is lucky.

Learning from both success and failure is how we make our own good luck.

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