My Approach

My approach could be off. This is the first thought I had as I came over to begin to work on the post today. The word approach makes me think about a golfer coming up to the ball and preparing to sink a putt.

The mental condition, the focus needed to look at the ball, and the mental energy needed to tap it to go where the golfer wants it to go. The hole is where the golfer wants the ball to go. The goal is the hardest place to get to. It would be easy to not hit the ball into the hole. It doesn’t take the effort of skill to miss the hole.

I can travel to Augusta, Georgia, and stand on the 18th hole and miss a putt.

If your goal is to miss putts, then you won’t grow into a great golfer.

You will be just someone who heads out to the range and misses putts.

This is your choice.

You will have to ask yourself, at some point, why am I on a golf course playing golf if all I want to do is miss putts all day long?

Either you will be playing with someone eager to take your money, or you will end up playing by yourself.

So, in that case, I would need to change my approach from a person who just putts to someone who is putting into making sure that the ball eventually lands in the hole.

This takes a bit more effort, practice, and failure, but eventually, if you persist, the ball will go into the hole, and you will become a person who knows how to make putts.

It comes from changing your approach. I am a person who shows up, applies a bit of focus, and accomplishes what I set out to do.

My approach, how I show up to each event in my day. With focus and with intent. The time to change, to do better, to be successful. This is how I approach each day, each event. With the hope and expectation to make things better. A little better for each person around me.

This is my approach. I can approach each day, not knowing if my efforts paid off, but aware that if I decide to approach each day with the focus to help, my approach could be just right.