Sunday Story…The Arena

If you look on the wall in the restroom there is a small poster with Teddy Roosevelt’s “the man in the Arena” speech. Here is a link to it in case you’ve never noticed it:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7-it-is-not-the-critic-who-counts-not-the-man

There comes a point where you must step onto the field of play. You can talk about it but talking won’t cut it. Always thinking but never acting holds you back. Planning without action is just mental masturbation. Just imagine if all you ever do is aim but never pull the trigger.

If your goals are important, if you respect yourself enough to create the discipline to do the things required to achieve those goals but you don’t take the ruthless action required to meet those goals how will get where you want to be?

You must step into the arena. You must be willing to risk failing. No one wins every time…the GOAT doesn’t become the GOAT the moment he or she walks on the field. There were highs and lows. There were times when they were defeated…but not beaten. You pull the arrows of self-doubt and criticism out of your armor and step back into the arena.

There is no greater shame than to waste your potential by only thinking and planning but never acting.

Behold the turtle…he can’t go anywhere without sticking his neck out.

John Mariotti

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