WisPolitics Budget Blog

Mike Sherman writes final column

...How we respond to adversity and the difficulties we face are a healthy part of our lives. We should view them and respond to them as challenges, rather than obstacles or failures.

Sometimes good things happen. Sometimes bad things happen — and ironically, in the end, you realize the good wasn’t so good and the bad wasn’t so bad. You often don’t have control over what happens. You do, however, have control over how you respond and your attitude as each challenge presents itself.

You have control over how you handle your success, as well as your failures, and what you take from each. You have control over your willingness to adapt to life as it unfolds itself to you.

...We must make sure our life doesn't just happen to us but rather we make our life happen for us. It's our choice, we must choose wisely.

Mike Sherman was, and is, a class act. Having been fired from a job I truly loved, I wish I had these words to read 10+ years ago.

When Mike Sherman returns to Lambeau sometime in the future -- and he will someday stand on the opposite sidelines -- I hope he delivers a huge, colossal, stinging loss to Ted Thompson's staff, albeit the one loss for the Packers amidst a 15-1 season.

He deserves that much.