Striking Out is Part of the Game

Never ever surrender your spirit to anyone or any ideal. They both will change and no longer fully serve you - and you will change and no longer serve them.

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I often have heard and have often said myself: “How lucky can you/I get?” These are the words of a person who believes that fortune is a happenstance event unrelated to our thoughts and actions.

Luck really turns on whether you are willing to fail often enough in order to carve out your success.

Buying an established franchise or marketing a product that is hot in the marketplace, for instance, does not insure your success.

Nor does thinking positive thoughts and having boatloads’ of capital to spend on a “Can’t miss!” business.

The real determinant is whether you are willing to fail most of the time in order to hit pay dirt.

A major league baseball player is unlikely to get a hit more than one out of three chances (and usually somewhat less), yet still makes a cool million dollars or more per season.

But they are swinging. They know the odds. They play the odds. And they get paid because they stay in the game even though they keep striking out until that magic moment when they get their inevitable one hit out of three or four at bats.  In the game of life we must shoot and then aim. A famous Internet marketer, Mike Litman, says it eloquently:

“Don’t get it right, just get it going.”

The competitive world we live in requires us to keep plugging away while others wave a flag of surrender and encourage us to do likewise.
Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear the gentle grating of a bore worm. Just an insignificant worm, you say? What can that measly worm hope to do with that monster tree?

Grate, grate, grate! For years that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust lifts its towering branches in fancied security.

Finally, a storm comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but behold, its strength is undermined. Its vitals are eaten away, and it falls — victim to the tiny worm.

Thus is the spirit of a success warrior when he steps to the plate one more time to get his one out of three hits. His or her determination can and will steadily eat away the sturdiest and most formidable of locust trees standing between us and our dreams.

Ready? Batter up.

TAKE THE TEST AND BECOME YOUR BEST!