“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
– William Shakespeare
How much effort do we expend to avoid losing?
Hand-in-hand with our “good enough is good enough” concept, is the idea that we can’t lose what we don’t have. Yet our social media fueled, everyone-is-a-critic, armchair quarterback society works tirelessly to instill a fear of losing mentality in much of what we do.
Play to win. That big contract we don’t have yet? We don’t have it yet. Therefore, we can’t lose it. Now, certainly, we shouldn’t do something dopey that jeopardizes all our hard work in getting to “this point,” but we must keep the context.
We ought to make the big bets. We ought to deploy candor in building expectations that set us apart, especially when we deliver on them. We ought to remember that we can’t lose what we don’t have — and then we ought to set out to win it.
The Diff takes a Christmas break after tomorrow’s post on…..wait for it….Christmas.
Until then, make a difference today!
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