Define Your Mission

Define Your Mission

One of my favorite books is The Winds of War by Herman Wouk.  In this book, Mr. Wouk recounts a scene in which General E. J. Tillet, military author and one of the Commanding Generals for England during WWII, is speaking to the main character named Pug Henry.  Tillet is making an observation about Hermann Goering that is applicable to our topic. 

He said this about Goering, “He’s wasted a whole bloody month bombing harbors and pottering about after convoys.  He’s only got till September the fifteenth.  His mission is mastery of the air, not blockade.  Define your mission!  Define your mission and stick to it!” 

Whether you are practicing a golf swing, practicing a difficult piece of music, building an empire, or seeking to marry the person of your choosing, this is applicable.

Define your mission and stick to it.

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration

How Many Failures Does It Take?

How Many Failures Does It Take?

This has been around the block a few times, yet it is still pertinent.  Failures happen. That is a fact.

And yet, perseverance must be exercised for any of our worthwhile goals and improvement strategies.  I hope this refresher helps inspire some reader today.

Abraham Lincoln’s Failures

1832 Defeated for state legislature

1833  Failed in business

1835  Sweetheart died

1836  Had a nervous breakdown

1838 Defeated for Speaker

1843  Defeated for nomination for Congress

1848  Lost re-nomination

1849  Rejected for land officer

1854  Defeated for US Senator

1856  Defeated for nomination for VP

1858  Again defeated for US Senator

1860  Elected President

He suffered eleven defeats ~ ELEVEN ~ before making it as one of our great presidents.

Gotta love that.

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration

To See a New Way

To See a New Way

Now here’s a growth moment.  Seeing things in a new way. 

If you’ve heard the saying – “We’ve always done it this way” then perhaps, it is time for a new way.  Perhaps the old tried and true is worn out.

This is true in a musician’s practice routine.

This is true in a golfer’s swing.

This is true in a writer.

This is true in designing bridges.

Perhaps, a new perspective is needed, a different look at the how and why.

Fresh insights are what is called for.  Don’t abandon the physics of the thing.  Just reconsider the different ways you can use those same physics and create new and better, improved and more sustainable.

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration