Success in Balance

Some thoughts on the NBA . - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com

As a partner, I would rather offer up a topic for discussion and be told Im wrong, or even ignored, then not present my perspective. You never know the impact if you dont communicate. Its usually just a short and simple email from me for someone in the NBA to read and respond to, or not.

As I read this over at Blog Maverick, I could not help but think how this mentality is the reason Mark is so successful. He realizes it is not perfection that is the key, but the constant pursuit to make things better. He does say “Shaq is wrong” but what Shaq is doing is wrong. Totally different focus. Mark gets it. If each and every day we all work to make ourselves better and those around us better, how much better will this world be?

Laziness

A friend told me about this great website called Despair. It is a site devoted to demotivation. Now that might seem silly, but they creators realized that motivation is huge business, but the reality is most people are not motivated and do not really want to be motivated. As I looked through many of the sayings it was simply amazing how many I connected with. This one was on of my favorites, but for different reasons:

Success is a journey is one of my favorite sayings, so at first I was a bit annoyed. But then as I thought about it in the context of Success in Balance with the rest of my life, I started liking it more and more. Often my life is out of balance because I am being driven by urgency instead of importance. I react to situations. I deal with the things that come my way. At times I need to slow down to “smell the roses.” You can’t smell them if you run right by them. So while life is a journey, we need to slow down and enjoy the journey. Funny how a demotivational poster can be so motivating