On event I've posted video photos of advertisements that I think are cool. Every now and then one comes alongside it's simply hilarious. (For instance, if you haven't seen the new Comcast industrial with Jason Dufner searching like Rip Van Winkle, you surely have to test it out!)
But this commercial just blew me away -- not just because it's ingenious, however because it sums up the importance of your attitude so well:
Sometimes it simply seems like the game is in no way going to "come to you," that you will by no means get the grasp of your swing or knock those wasted strokes off your rating. Like Nathan -- the child within the video -- you just ought to keep putting one foot in front of the other until you attain your purpose.
There's a myth most of us believe that we need to let go of... and the sooner, the better. Success isn't always pretty, folks. Sometimes it's downright ugly. Most of us want more than just a win -- we also want people to ooh and ahh at how simple and elegant we made it look. We manage to make some improvement... then we gripe that it wasn't enough and that "we're better than that," as if we should somehow be so much farther along than we are.
If we get stuck up in that mindset, we sabotage ourselves. Somewhere alongside the road we ought to research a measure of gratitude for what we accomplish. Learning to understand and experience your development -- irrespective of how small you suspect it is able to be -- could make the difference among whether or not you subsequently be triumphant or just self-destruct.
Remember: Success isn't measured from where you think you should be; it's measured from where you actually are. A mindset of gratitude and fun can make it much easier to master this game.
UPDATE: ABC News did a special story about Nathan. He's not from London, England, but London, Ohio. You can read it here.
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