Irrefutable Success

There are three ques­tions that you should never ask a woman:

1) How old are you?
2) How much do you weigh?
3) Are you pregnant?

Imag­ine run­ning into some­one you have not seen in a while, and notic­ing that they appear to be sport­ing a tell-tale bump in the belly area. Before you know it, you’ve said it: “Are you pregnant?”

Appalled, the lady replies, “Well, no….do I look like I am pregnant?”

I actu­ally asked this dan­ger­ous ques­tion — and got that very response –while onstage at a recent event! You may be think­ing a lot of not-so-nice things about me right now, so let me tell you the rest of the story…

While speak­ing at the BabyFest event about The CHILD Game Plan — a book I wrote with NFL agent Bruce Toll­ner about cre­at­ing a Game Plan for chil­dren from birth to age 17 — I asked a vol­un­teer to come up on stage with me. By the way I set it up, she knew that, although she clearly wasn’t preg­nant, I would prob­a­bly ask that question.

When she responded, “No, do I look like I am preg­nant?” I emphat­i­cally replied, “Yes, in fact, I believe you are preg­nant with twins.”

You see, we are all preg­nant with twins: Pur­pose and Promise.

The ques­tion is, what will we do with these two?

It is impor­tant to point out that you can be preg­nant, and not be “expect­ing.” It’s pos­si­ble to be preg­nant, but not yet be aware of it. Expect­ing infers that you know you are car­ry­ing the poten­tial for life and pos­si­bil­ity, and you are doing every­thing you can to pre­pare. I believe that some peo­ple are preg­nant with pur­pose and promise, but are cur­rently walk­ing around with no expectations.

In Every Day is Game Day I wrote that “Pur­pose begins to come into focus at the point where desire inter­sects with poten­tial.” Your pur­pose lies some­where in the area where what you want to do (your desire) aligns with what you have the poten­tial to do.

Now that cer­tainly doesn’t mean that every­thing you want to do, and could do, makes up your pur­pose. That could get you in trou­ble. How­ever, your true pur­pose does lie within that area. and you have to dis­ci­pline your­self to find it. In doing this, you must under­stand your “why.”

There is no doubt in my mind that, when you iden­tify your true pur­pose, you will have the poten­tial to bring it to fruition.

Are you liv­ing your life with pur­pose? Are you real­iz­ing your full poten­tial, and liv­ing out your promises to your­self and to other people?

If not, here are some resources to help you get on track:

- Read this blog post by Coach Daniel Harkavy:  “Why?“
– Read this blog post by Coach Steve Scan­lon:  “Start­ing All Over Again“
– Watch this short video blog by Coach Bill Hart:  “Remem­ber the Good Shots“
– Read this blog post by Coach Ray­mond Glea­son:  “In the Game of Life, Armando Galar­raga Hits a Grand Slam”

- If you are a leader, read this post by Coach Jerry Baker:  “Take Action”

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