Inspirational Message

OVERCOMING PERSONAL CONSTRAINTS


Recently, my son and I decided to play golf at our home in Lake Monticello. As I stepped up to the tee I began to rehearse all the advice I had ever been given on how to hit a golf ball. Although I had not played for a year or so, I consider myself athletic ( a former college football walk on at East Carolina, autographed copies of team picture are available on eBay), so how hard could it be? OK now grip the club this way, bend your knees, keep your head still, eye on the ball, your back straight, your left arm straight, take a deep breath, slow back swing, rotate your hips, swing through the ball… The club contacts the ball and the ball takes flight…straight into the trees! What happened, I knew all the things I was supposed to do?

What happens in golf often happens in this business, we gather head knowledge. We receive great training, good advice from people who are successful, useful business tools, but we forget to make it our own. What personal constraints are keeping you from reaching your potential? Let’s see; I fear rejection, I lack confidence in calling people back, I don’t understand the compensation plan fully, I am not an expert in nutrition, the list goes on. Identify the most problematic and work on that one first. Once you have mastered that move on to the next one.


Don’t try and fix everything at once but don’t wait until everything is fixed.


We have a person in our group who used to be hesitant about talking to people about the business. Not anymore! After she went to Nashville, she began talking to anything that breathes and probably some things that don’t. She overcame the most problematic constraint and now her ”business is growing and she is glowing.” We probably will not hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods, but we can OPC and hit to the best of our ability. We may not be a Dale Carnegie or a Jim Rohn, but if we overcome one personal constraint at a time, we will eventually be all that we can be. Have fun, be yourself, and remember take a deep breath and exhale before you talk to that next person.