Goal Tending

Have you ever agreed to play a game, launch a project or complete a task and then found yourself having to deal with unexpected problems and issues that threaten the outcome?

Games are designed fundamentally to include challenges. Every game that you will play will include roadblocks and obstacles, big and small, along the way.

There are times when challenges will appear to be insurmountable and when every step taken will be met with a surprising blow, knocking you two steps backward for every one step that you've taken. And just when you get though the first difficulty, committed to going on no matter what, you find yourself having to deal with something all over again.

Athletes train long and hard to prepare their mind and body to take on every obstacle -- planned and unplanned. They condition themselves to overcome and develop their ability adjust to every possible situations, believing that they will ultimately succeed.

In 1986, French champion Savate martial artist, Gilles le Duigou, broke both his arms in attempting to block a roundhouse kick during a championship match. Despite urges for him to stop the fight, Gilles continued without the use of his arms, and went on to knockout and defeat his opponent with a whip kick.

Years later in a television interview, when asked why he chose to not quit during that fight, he responded:

"My desire and will to win was the most overwhelming thing."

For world class athletes, winning is more important than the obstacles that they must overcome.

Keep your eye on the prize.

That's my two cents (for whatever it's worth),

Auguste Roc
auguste@danaroc.com