I
have a question for you.
What are you
willing to do
to be better than you have ever been?
Are you willing to appear the fool? Are you willing to try the seemingly
impossible? Are you willing to follow your gut instincts and chase a whim just to see what can be done?
Then
perhaps, you are on the road to greatness.
Perhaps.
Sometimes,
we must do things that might not work.
That means making choices that in the creative mind seem exciting and
logical and in practical life flop.
I've experienced that in planning musical events.
I nearly botched a job interview tryout once because of a poor
combination of songs.
As
a writer, I have a file with over 25,000-words full of ideas that haven’t quite
jelled into usable blogs for general consumption. I also have countless book ideas that litter my
computer like chips from a Michelangelo sculpting.
And
so I write. Sometimes it is to do a mind
dump. At other times it is to see how
far an idea can be pushed. The quest to
see where an idea leads can be exhilarating in itself. Yet an artist is willing
to chase those kinds of trails.
What
are you willing to do?
Not
all ideas work, yet we continue to create.
Are you willing to follow the thread of an idea just to see where it
leads?
I
love this story of Wayne Gretzky, the ice hockey great. It is said that in practice Wayne would do
all kinds of antics on the ice just to see how far he could push himself. He would contort, twist, turn, bend, fall,
stretch and stretch some more, all in an effort to pursue his limits and push
them further out. He was willing to
appear the fool on the ice in order to perfect his skills. Today, the name Wayne Gretzky is synonymous
with ice hockey greatness.
What
are you willing to do?
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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