Dreams

In golf there are many, many tournaments throughout the year. It seems that every other week someone wins who I have never even heard of before, with the exception of the majors. The majors are the four most important tournaments and have the deepest fields. For some reason, it seems that the better players outperform the others even more consistently in majors than in the regular events. Geoff Ogilvy even made the observation once  that majors are almost easier to win because very few players actually show up thinking that they can pull it off. 

Well, to all those that are on the planet, I introduce to you the majors of life: religion, family, career, and happiness. We see it on t.v., we hope for it in our hearts, but how many of us really show up to the most important things believing that we can succeed? Are we excited to pursue the deepest desires of our hearts? Are we ready to fall on our faces a few times? I think I am, but I have a long face, a four thousand calorie diet, and a very close relationship with failure. So I understand that I might not fall under the bell curve in a lot of ways, but I think we should all get on this train and see where we end up and what we run over on the way. 

In fact, let's just take some leaps of faith and jump for the things we value as most important. Much like track, most of us will find that we can't jump, run, or throw nearly as well as we visualize it before we actually do it. We will try to achieve lofty goals, lift millions of lives, and build a perfect home. We will try to love, care for, and treat with respect all people. We will spend countless hours pursuing honorable goals. Day after day, week after week, and year after year we will continue working our hearts out. There will come a day that we will look back and see, through the cruel eye of honesty, that we failed many more times than we succeeded. We will feel incompetent and wonder why we didn't do as well as others. We will want to quit and never try again. I promise, that in that day, many of us will embrace our "failure" with a greater and deeper satisfaction than we could have ever imagined when we first pictured success. In the libraries of our lives, the volumes of accomplishments gather dust, but we will never stop visiting the stories and friendships that were made as we tried to achieve. 

So go and catch your dreams. Live with passion. Be awesome.