Leave Nothing in the Ring

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you fully gave yourself to something?

If you just did it.

You didn’t question it.

You didn’t second guess yourself.

You didn’t allow yourself to get distracted.

You didn’t allow others to tell you if you were right or wrong in your dream, you just did it.

And what if you did it with such abandonment, such glee, such a sense of joy and expectation that even if it didn’t work out the way you envisioned, the journey was so exhilarating, the endeavor so worth it that the experience itself made you a better person.

Have you ever played a ball game, a match and got to the locker room, you have lost, and you sit there with your head down and you are thinking to yourself….man I really didn’t give it my best?

You play back the scenes, the shots, the plays and you know in your “knower” that you were holding back or distracted or lazy…and you regret it.

Or conversely…

Have you ever got to the locker room absolutely hammered, you still lost, but you know you gave it everything, you played full out and you left nothing on the field?

Life is like that.

I don’t want to step from this ring and have anything left.

I want to have lived it to the max. Done everything I can to have become all that I could have…

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  • James Fuller posted: 20 Jan at 6:41 am

    That’s the only way to play - it all or nothing! And Jesus is our model - what did he leave undone, what did hold back. He gave it all and looked what happened!

  • Joe graham posted: 21 Jan at 7:23 pm

    All or nothing I would rather be the best failer giving my all then an average winner