Awareness and Action

Monday, February 26

I was talking with my oldest son recently about baseball, as their season starts this week. He’s been in practice with the team for a few weeks, and they’ve had several scrimmages. I asked how confident he was in his game right now, where he thinks he needs the most work/improvement, and his plan to improve in that area.

There were several points to the conversation, and questions asked. One is that I want him to have the awareness to know where his strengths and weaknesses are and to have the ability to analyze how he is currently performing without emotion getting involved. I want him to see that while he will always have things to work on, there will always be areas where he excels. He should both look for those strengths and be confident in them.

The more significant part of the conversation was for him to understand that he won’t improve in the areas he needs to improve without a plan of action. If he’s struggling with hitting, he’ll always struggle with hitting unless he does something about it. If he struggles with a particular pitch or a certain play in the field, knowing he struggles won’t fix the issue. Awareness must lead to action.

The same is true for us. Where do you need to improve right now? What is your plan to improve?

If you don’t make a plan and turn that plan into action, you’ll still be sitting here in a month, six months, one year, or more, struggling with the same thing.

If you want to get better at it, you must work at it.
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin