Don’t blink
This moment could become the best part of your story…
And the reason is because you get to choose what you will do. You get to make all the decisions.
This is how it went for me:
During the summer the neighborhood kids would choose sides to play sandlot baseball (or some other game) in the city park. There were two captains — the popular, strongest, most athletic, BOY — and the line-up of the rest.
You sort of knew your rank before the captains started to pick the best players.
The fat kid. Slow kid. Four-eyed geek guaranteed to whiff. The GIRL…we knew we’d be chosen near the end. You could hear the groans of the captains and their near full roster when the fat kid and me parted ways to opposing teams.
“See you on the bench,” he said.
Lucky to be on any team and never a chance of ever being captain.
As an adult you don’t need to wait to be picked in order to become captain. Whether you become a team of one or a team of many, it’s your vision that becomes the driving creative force. You get to pick the players and create your own team.
Many people are comfortable being “players” because then you don’t need to make any choices or decisions. You follow the captain’s orders. Get a hit or draw a walk — just get on base to advance the vision of the captain. Do that and you’re a player. Do that and you won’t warm the bench.
It’s seducing to watch the captains we admire excel at the thing we want to do. It’s also safe, and boring, okay if your goal isn’t to become a captain some day.
But you don’t want to be a bench warmer or a player.
So, when the inkling of opportunity presents itself, that is the moment to put on your courageous jersey. Decide to choose yourself as captain. Then you get to pick your teammates and call the plays.
BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!
Original graphic and quote: Stephanie DelTorchio
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