George Halas

Why Giving Your Best Erases Regret

Finally, Halas’s credo thrives with guardrails. Anders Ericsson’s research on deliberate practice (Peak, 2016) shows that quality beats grind; focused work, feedback, and rest improve performance while preventing burnout. Athletes periodize training to peak and recover (Bompa, 1999), and teams run “pre-mortems” to surface risks in advance (Gary Klein, 2007). Day to day, a controllables scoreboard—effort, preparation, attitude—keeps attention where agency lives. Done this way, giving your best is not reckless overreach; it is disciplined devotion that, win or lose, leaves nothing to regret. [...]