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What Golf Can Teach Us About Our Online Businesses
“The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan
Last Friday, a friend and I hit the links. The day began as a conscious decision to peel myself away from the computer to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors, one of our first sub-100 degree days in months. As we hacked our way around the course (and I do mean hacked), I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between a successful golf game and online business success. Just as these 3 attributes are paramount for anybody looking to improve their golf game, the same attributes will also help anyone looking to build their online businesses:
Goal Setting for Dummies Part One – Top Gun Analogy
“I’ll take you right into the Danger Zone.” -Kenny Loggins from the Top Gun soundtrack
We all know the importance of setting goals and establishing priorities. Most successful people will tell you that you have to know where you want to go if you ever want to get there and you have to have a plan to succeed. But, if you are anything like me, you have struggled following through with all of your goals.
Do you set goals which empower and motivate you in the short-term only to lose focus and determination and fail to see them through to completion? Do you set up specific action plans to achieve those goals only to wake up in the morning to a vague sense of anxiety about how productive you need to be and how much shit you need to get done each day to reach those goals? Do you ever feel as though you are spread too thin, that you are pulled in too many directions, that there isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done? And, finally, do you ever stress yourself out to the point of inaction…and then feel guilty or upset that you weren’t as productive as you should have been that day?
Yes? Good! No offense, but it’s comforting to know I am not alone in this. It’s a vicious cycle – setting tons of goals, following through with some but not ALL of them, and then getting down on myself for failing (again) to live up to the personal “rules” and high standards I set for myself…but then I jump right back in there and do it to myself all over again. And it SUCKS! Read the rest of this entry »
Life is a Game of Inches and Hello Football Season
As anybody who knows me can attest, I am a huge football fan (Go Chiefs and Hook ‘Em Horns). With the college season already underway and the NFL season set to kick off next week, I wanted to pay homage to what life is really all about…football 
We all know football is a game of inches. And, if football is life and life is football, it stands to reason that LIFE is a game of inches. Al Pacino does a pretty nice job of summing it all up in one of the better movie pre-game motivational speeches of all-time:
“The inches we need are everywhere around us!” Are you fighing for each inch?
Have a great weekend and THANK GOD FOR FOOTBALL!
