Sometimes we can get so caught up in how things look that we actually forget about the thing. These are the times that we need to learn how to simply take the win.
I heard a pro golfer say once that the difference between the pros and the amateurs is the ability to recover from bad shots.
[Tweet “The difference between the pros and the amateurs is the ability to recover from bad shots.”]There is so much wisdom and peace in that statement. I think that most of us feel like the win is never hitting a bad shot or having a bad day or experiencing a run that sucks.
True story: in my running log, there are several entries labeled RTS because some runs aren’t easy or tempos or intervals. Sometimes a run just sucks.
The question we need to ask ourselves is how will we process those bad shots, runs, and days? I want to encourage you to allow yourself to take the win, even if it was ugly.
There will be nights that we lay in bed and feel the sting of how we could have — and maybe even should have — handled things better. But they were handled. Take the win.
As a pastor, I know that there will be Mondays when I feel like the message could have been communicated more clearly. But it was communicated. Take the win.
Again this morning there was a run that left me wondering just how it’s possible for me to have run so much and still struggle at times to run a couple of miles. It was truly a run that sucked, but it was a run. I’m going to take the win.
Don’t let the fact that you struggled to do something cause you to miss the fact that you did something through the struggle.
[Tweet “Don’t let the fact that you struggled to do something cause you to miss the fact that you did something through the struggle.”]All champions celebrate because they won, not necessarily for how pretty they looked as they won, and if you’ve made progress — even ugly, sweaty, grueling progress — then take the win.
If it helps, you’ve got my permission to throw some confetti.
