Business, Golf and Bagger Vance
December 5, 2007
What do God, Golf and Bagger Vance have in common. First of all, Everything. But now, let me break it down a little bit. In Both Golf and Business, people on the outside don’t get it. They don’t get that in each of these endeavors we are constantly called upon to reach deep inside ourselves - usually when no body is looking, like when the ball is in the rough or the woods or on the other side of the fairway – and asks, “whach-ya-gonna-do-now, huh?” and then we can do the right thing or the wrong thing. The thing about golf, and the thing about business, is that when we do the right thing – regardless of outcome – the result is joy. It just feels so good to do it Right – oh yeah!! Joy, joy, joy is the spirit of God. God could give a rat’s a…, err uh, God could care less about Business or Golf. But God – and just for the record, I don’t care who or what your God is – God cares ALOT about reaching deep, doing the right thing and feeling it, feeling that joy. Am I ready for Sunday morning TV or what! at Coach Chuck’s Church of the 1st Tee … I’ll see you at the clubhouse.
There is no book that captures the spirit of golf like The Legend of Bagger Vance. Golf is a game of mind, it is a game of our integrity, of our past, of what everyone thinks of us. And ultimately, is a game that asks, “can we just let go of everything, everything that is, or ever was, and hit the damn ball the way it needs to be hit?” And its not about thinking it. Its just about doing it. The caveat is you go through all the other stuff first, until you find yourself alone with the ball. Its you, yourself and doing the right thing – with nobody looking. What are you going to do? Bagger Vance: the book, the real deal, about the game of golf.
Coach Chuck973-670-7215
March 9, 2009 at 11:10 am
I don’t play golf, but I did appreciate the movie: The Legend of Bagger Vance. As an aspiring entrepreneur myself, I can totally relate to seeing the fairway through the woods when no one else does. That’s what being in business is all about, right? We do the things that others have no clue about so that we can come out on top. We are each faced with many challenges and believing in oneself is just one of the many stages of development for entrepreneurs.
My best friend calls me the money grubbing Puerto Rican. This is supposed to be an affectionate label. My best friend barely makes $40,000 a year and her insistence that I am only concerned with money leads me to believe that she does not know how to make more of it. But friends don’t always undertsand us, so I make do with the one that do.
“A person that lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”