DON'T GET NERVOUS

"It’s been a long time since I’ve been nervous playing this game. It’s what I’ve been doing my whole life. I put all the work in. You do everything you need to do to prepare, and I try not to leave anything to chance. So what’s the point in being nervous? I’ve already done the work. It’s game time. Time to go out there and have fun and execute and let your skills take over." -Cliff Lee on if he was nervous during his first World Series appearance.


I recognize that I'm a couple of months away from when this quote actually took place, but it's had such a profound impact on my life that I just had to write about it. Let me be the first so say that as a Dodger fan *sigh* I wasn't happy that they didn't pull the trigger to get Cliff Lee. The Indians sold him at a discount and the guy is a stud. I'll stop myself before I stray too far from the topic... the point I wanted to make is that there is some very valuable content here in this little nugget of wisdom Cliff provides. In essence if you put in the work and do everything that you can do you are leaving very little to chance. You are controlling your own destiny.

I am in Real Estate and though it's a hard market right now, I've been preparing for this job for the past 5-10 years. Not necessarily this particular job, but my job as a provider. I know what it takes to make sure that I have deals in place to pay for our food, shelter, clothing, etc. so even though the it may be hard to do, I've prepared, I've done all the necessary work before hand and I'm taking very little to chance. I'm not nervous about the future because I know that I've done all that I can do to put myself in a position to be successful.

The part that is left out in the quote is what happens if you haven't prepared. He touches on it, but if you don't prepare you leave much of what happens in your life to chance and there's a reason casinos are as successful as they are, every game they have is left to chance and the house always wins. My suggestion to you would be to prepare as much as possible to succeed in whatever it is you want to do so nothing in your life is left to chance.