We are not judged by how we perform when the sun is shining, the bank
account is full, and the family is happy.
In life, in businesses, in sports, in relationships, we are judged by how we react
and how we perform when we are backed into a corner.
What we do during moments when everyone else would assume we would give
up…that is what truly takes you from being a B+ worker to a A+ plus elite
level performer.
Often times, these stories are the ones that are not told, we go off quietly
into the night.
We give in to the circumstances and break off the relationship that seemed
too damaging to give it a chance for resurrection, we declare bankruptcy when
our financial situations seem too hard to overcome, we surrender and throw in
the towel for the rest of the baseball season when we are down 10.5 games
in late August in a baseball playoff race and when we are down 2 runs and
down to our last pitch multiple times in a game that clearly the other team
had the confidence to beat us.
WAIT!
Not always….
Sometimes in life we fight through and repair those businesses thought to be
sunk, those relationships in life that seemed too bloodied to repair, and the St
Louis Cardinals over the last 60 days have taught us once again
NEVER GIVE UP and when you are backed into a corner don’t cower and
surrender but stand back up and fight back with everything you have.
That is how you will be remembered in life…it shows your toughness…your
resiliency…and most importanly your drive and passion for what you
believe in.
The St Louis Cardinals are a good baseball team this year but talent top to
bottom they are no better than 8th or so in all of baseball.
They were 10 and a half games out of the playoff races with one month to go
and staged one of the largest comebacks and turnarounds in MLB history to
just make the playoffs.
The Cardinals went to the Phillies house in a deciding game 5 series that they
were supposed to lose and beat the favored Phillies in their own house.
Now they have fought back to force a Game 7 after what will go down in history
if they win as one of the greatest baseball stories of ALL TIME!
Twice the Cardinals this morning or last night depending on your time zone
were down two runs and down to their last out and twice they forced the
game into another inning.
When finally they hit a walk off home run to force one final game that may lead
them to another World Series Title tonight.
They were backed into a corner in late August and have been there since
then…they are very close to knocking everyone over who backed them into that
corner and left them for dead very sorry that they didn’t finish them off
when they had the opportunity.
Challenge yourself, overcome hard to topple obstacles, and be judged on how
you react in critical moments of life. That is how we truly become ELITE in
all divisions of life.
Thanks for reading everyone, enjoy game 7 if you choose to watch tonight!
(I won’t lie I don’t really even watch baseball other than the Reds but have
randomly stumbled on this Cardinals team a few different times during this
magical run.)
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