The New Foot Smell means total commitment.
How often, when faced with a decision, do we waffle from one choice to the next? Cover our bases, and try to create a fallback position?
We justify this thinking by saying "if we're wrong, we need to minimize the damage". A lack of commitment, however, can often cause more damage.
To have one foot in and one foot out of a relationship rarely leads to a better relationship. Instead it builds mistrust, creates an easy out, and allows one to focus on other things.
If change is necessary, but we always carry a reset button, can we truly commit our financial and emotional resources to the change, or are we always looking for the problem to arise so we can go back to a more comfortable position?
To truly create lasting change, commitment is key. True sacrifice will create transformation. If it doesn't go as planned, eliminating the fallback position doesn't eliminate your safety net - it forces you to create new solutions, propelling you to lasting change and greater creativity, and preventing you from languishing in the status quo.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tiger's Feat
Did you see Tiger Woods 25 foot birdie on the 18th hole to win Arnold Palmer's Tourney yesterday? It was the equivalent of a 60 yard field goal with no time left. A halfcourt heave as the buzzer sounds. A no look, length of the ice goal with .01 seconds left.
On top of that, he tied Ben Hogan with 64 PGA wins - a feat he's accomplished in 11 years vs. Hogan's 21 - and he doesnt play more than 20 times a year.
What is Tiger's New Foot Smell? What could a man with millions of dollars, a supermodel wife, the world at his beck and call be sacrificing?
His practice regimen is fierce. His devotion to his craft unparalleled. But his sacrifice began as a child - when he reached an age of accountability and continued to choose the path his Father had put him on from age 2. He didn't rebel, but embraced the dream, internalizing beyond living up to his father, so he now lives up to himself. A standard higher than any other golfer on tour. A standard that appears higher than .0000001 percent of the world population.
Have you embraced your dream? Do you spend every moment taking action towards it, or do you bring it down to dust off, admire for an afternoon, and then return to the shelf?
Embrace your dream - make an exceptional choice - and enjoy your New Foot Smell!
On top of that, he tied Ben Hogan with 64 PGA wins - a feat he's accomplished in 11 years vs. Hogan's 21 - and he doesnt play more than 20 times a year.
What is Tiger's New Foot Smell? What could a man with millions of dollars, a supermodel wife, the world at his beck and call be sacrificing?
His practice regimen is fierce. His devotion to his craft unparalleled. But his sacrifice began as a child - when he reached an age of accountability and continued to choose the path his Father had put him on from age 2. He didn't rebel, but embraced the dream, internalizing beyond living up to his father, so he now lives up to himself. A standard higher than any other golfer on tour. A standard that appears higher than .0000001 percent of the world population.
Have you embraced your dream? Do you spend every moment taking action towards it, or do you bring it down to dust off, admire for an afternoon, and then return to the shelf?
Embrace your dream - make an exceptional choice - and enjoy your New Foot Smell!
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