If a baseball player hits .333 he’s had a great season--but it also means he failed to get a hit close to 70% of the time. I played baseball in college and I learned a lot about the game and about the importance of team work. I also learned that patience and timing are crucial.
That translated into business skills later on. I’m a firm believer that every experience has value if we choose to notice and take the lesson away with us. Not everything we do will be a hit, a home run or a grand slam. It just doesn’t work that way, in games or in life.
Sometimes we have to ask ourselves “what’s the play?” in order to get ahead of ourselves in our thinking. That indicates strategy. There has to be a game plan. To me it’s the responsible, competent approach. If any of you have played sports, recall what you’ve learned and apply it to your school and business life.
I play golf now and I consider it to be a brain game. It requires concentration and assessment as well as skill and technique. It also requires patience and diligence to achieve excellence. It’s a great training ground for success.
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its fact that patients and diligence with persistence bring forth fruit in coming events its all depends on continue struggle keep going on do the jogs then rest on god.
I have just made enquiries to joining the Golf club here in my country, now I am even more resolved to do so, even though I have just been told the high cost of becoming a member.
Will keep you posted. Hope to meet you as I just became a member of the Trump University.
I'm writing from Germany, Europe, and I like your thoughts about accepting faults. As the owner of a record label and coaching agency I sometimes have to make a decision with a more or less big risk. But with accepting faults and a good plan for your business you cannot fail - you always win.
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Alexander Mudrow
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Sincerely,
Brendan Ryan
Essencially these principles of success can be applied everywhere, just on different levels.
Such principles as determination, hard work, balance and belief. Always and everywhere.
Golfing is an exercise in restraint, sometimes less is better. Wacking the ball from the tee like it is your worst enemy's face often lifts the grass and creates a mark that needs to be fixed. I think this is funny too, especially when I am playing golf with my younger brother.
There are so many lessons in life to learn. I appreciate the time I spend golfing just to relax and enjoy the moment. Most of us will never be good enough at scoring to quit our day jobs and only play golf.
Even when people retire and can afford to spend more time golfing they don't have what it takes to beat Tiger Woods on a bad day.
So I just enjoy the game and save the lessons for life in areas where they can make a difference.
I totally agree with. I too am a firm believer that "every experience has value if we choose to notice and take the lesson away with us." We may not know it at the time, but in that experience is great strength, when the time comes, whether the experience is good or bad. Trump, what I find is that some people refuse to take responsibility for an experience if it is bad and they give their power away with an excuse for the experience, like I was drunk, or high, or so-and-so made me do it. Therefore they do not learn from the experience, the bad experience continues to repeat itself, and they continue to remain powerless. There is nothing so bad as a good excuse.
True Trump, it is always good to sit back and consider situations, and have a game plan for the next time it comes around, because good and bad history has a habit of repeating itself. A game plan will make the good history way outnumber the bad history in repetitions. And by all means be a team player, but do not put your light under a bushel. Find a team that can light your fire.
Golf is a great training ground for success. Plus successful people do it, hence it is a great networking game also. And another plus is that it is always positive for the brain to be around beautiful scenic nature areas such as golf courses, especially your golf courses Trump.
Sincerely, your friend and "Revolutionary Entrepreneur"
Nimrod
Dr. Nimrod Erech M. Christ Nimrod, Ph.D.