I love playing golf with my friends. Often when we play, we pair up as teams or play against each other individually. Believe me when I say that it is VERY competitive. We will usually wager something small to make it interesting.
When we compete like this, we use a way to reset the bet. Let’s say you lose the first few holes, but you are feeling pretty good about starting fresh. We use the term “draw a line” which means that we will start a new bet from that point. The previous bet is not erased, and it continues, but the new bet starts from scratch. It’s a fresh start.
Wouldn’t it be nice to “draw a line” in your life? How about in your career? How about with your team and your company?
In medieval times, there were knights of the guard that protected the king and the realm. Those knights had a commander. He would keep a journal, tracking the history, accomplishments and even the death of the knights in his command. It would start with their history prior to joining the guard and continue until they died or no longer served.
Each knight had a page, and the commander continued that page, line after line, year after year. Every heroic effort, every injury, every happening of note was built into that page.
Our lives are more than words on a page. And if our lives, loves, wins and losses were put to paper, they would be more than a page. We are, each of us, our own authors. And every day we have a chance to start with a fresh page. Yes, there are pages before and after, but we control the pen and the words that will be written on today’s page.
The question is, do you feel good enough about today to draw that line?
Blair Ingle
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