The one quote from Travis Kelce that will help you when you're not sure what to do next

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is known for his talent on the football field, his loud and outgoing personality, and more recently for dating pop star Taylor Swift. While Swift wrote a song about Kelce with the lyrics, “you know how to ball, I know Aristotle”, that doesn‘t mean Kelce doesn’t know how to impart wisdom as well.

In fact, he may not have even realized this when he said it, but something he once said in an interview can be the key to success for anyone hoping to jumpstart any part of their life.

Travis Kelce’s explanation that can help jumpstart your life

Back in January of 2020, the Chiefs were playing the AFC Championship game against the Houston Texans and had fallen into a 24-0 hole in the first quarter, a larger deficit than they’d ever come back from before.

And yet, that’s exactly what they did. In the second quarter, the Chiefs started a comeback led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Kelce, who caught 10 of his passes for 134 yards and three (of their seven consecutive) touchdowns to eventually come away with a 51-31 victory.

While that alone can be a metaphor for not giving up, defying the odds, ignoring the doubters, and rising to the occasion, it was how Kelce said he achieved those things that really resonates.

“When in doubt, make plays.”

Although it may not sound too profound on the surface, successful English business magnate Sir Richard Branson was once quoted with similar advice: “Screw it, just get on and do it.” The underlying idea is the same.

When things are starting to look hopeless or you don’t know where to go from here, just “make plays”, or in other words, get the ball rolling. Get started. Make one small move that can turn into a bigger move. And then just keep doing that.

If you want to write a book one day but don‘t know where to begin, write one paragraph a week. That “play” can turn into one paragraph a day, and then a chapter, and before you know it, you’ve written hundreds of pages. If you want to run a marathon, but have never even done a 5k, just put your shoes on and go outside. That “play” can go from a walk to a jog to a long-distance run. You get the idea.

What Kelce‘s said, essentially, is - just do something that will make a small impact. When you‘re down and you want to come back up, do something, anything - just don’t do nothing. Eventually, the small impacts become great ones. It’s just about taking that first step - making that play.