Right now, or...?

I'll never forget getting matched up against a taller, faster, more powerful tennis player in a third round match, many years ago.

He was better than I.

He knew it. And I knew it.

Although, somehow I won the first set 6-1 and was up in the second 4-1. Only needing two more games to get into the next round.

Looking back, I'm not quite sure how this happened.

I must have been intensely focused on what I was doing.

You see, at any given time, you can either be focusing on what you are doing right now, whole-heartedly...

or...

You can be focusing on something else.
There are no in-betweens.

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What happened next
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Since I had such a commanding lead, I decided to start thinking about my next match rather than the match I was actually playing. 

Maybe you can relate.  If not in the sport you play, maybe it's in the sales call you are making right now (not the next one, or the one after that), the one you are invested in, at this very moment.

And to make a long story short, my opponent came back, and HE won.

Rather than beat myself up, after losing a commanding lead, this one event became one of the greatest learning experiences of my career, and my life.

It taught me that we really don't have a next.

Only a "right now".

Wishing you the best "right now".

'til next week,

Sam

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