“Like with everything else in life, you have to be aware of your center of gravity.”
– Dennis Leary, a Chef in San Francisco, CA in the October 1 Wall Street Journal
Sometimes, the weaker ones can bait us in to their game.
Sometimes, the second guessers and the armchair quarterbacks can capture an audience.
Sometimes, the urge to punch back — to drop to their level — can be pretty tempting.
Still, like with everything else in life, you have to be aware of your center of gravity.
Evolution, improvement, maximizing — all of those things are part of a dynamic career — and personal growth for the Difference Maker is a quest that never ends until they plant us in the ground.
That center of gravity though — figuratively — doesn’t change much. The core ingredients in a Difference Maker — while uniquely blended in each of us — all rest close to our core – our “center of gravity.” When we stray from success or when we get distracted, it’s usually because we’ve allowed someone, or something, to put us out “over our skis.”
When it happens, our instincts are screaming at us.
Better we listen to them, than the weaker ones, the second guessers and the armchair quarterbacks.
Danny says
Beautiful.
Steve Heston’s #SpeakingGreatness!
Jeff Porter says
This message is worth printing out and posting on the wall. Whether it is the temptation to engage fools in their foolishness, or the pull of worldly values and recognition on our decision making, the dissonance one feels when we allow ourselves to sink to a lower standard of behavior is God’s way of telling us we are out of sync with his plan for us. Good stuff Steve.
Colleen says
Wow. There’s a lot packed into these few words. Thanks for sharing such wisdom so succinctly!