{"id":248,"date":"2010-03-27T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-03-27T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T10:04:37","slug":"is-this-a-battle-or-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Am I in a Battle or a Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Do you see the challenges that Life presents to you as a series of fight-to-the-death battles or a series of\u00a0stretch-for-the-finish races?\u00a0Why does it matter which approach you choose?\u00a0After all, each has a winner and a loser. Yes, one wins relative to other – but\u00a0what is the absolute cost for both?\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0doodle illustrates the point\u00a0visually.\u00a0In a Battle you are in opposition and your effort, time and money\u00a0are spent and dissipated against each other.\u00a0 The strong\/angry\/big will prevail over the weak\/timid\/small\u00a0though when the protagnoists are closely matched the outcome takes longer to decide and costs more in absolute terms\u00a0for\u00a0both.\u00a0 One will eventually win while\u00a0both are weakened from the effort, time and money that is spent.\u00a0 Contrast this with the race; the investment on both sides is\u00a0in preparing for the race;\u00a0in learning, training, and improving.\u00a0 On the day\u00a0of the race the more fit\/focussed\/skilled competitor will win\u00a0yet both\u00a0are strengthened from\u00a0the invested\u00a0effort, time and\u00a0money.\u00a0 In\u00a0a race the more closely you are matched the more you both improve and get stronger and the quicker the outcome is decided. Exactly the opposite of the battle. It appears that Life will present us with enough\u00a0new challenges to keep us\u00a0occupied for the forseeable future; and to rise to those challenges will require that we all learn, train, and practice\u00a0so that we have the strength, skills and stamina for the challenges we will encounter\u00a0and cannot yet see.\u00a0\u00a0So,\u00a0it seems to me to be suicidal to\u00a0choose to\u00a0battle with\u00a0each other\u00a0and to waste our limited\u00a0resources of effort, time and money to the point where\u00a0we are all too weak to survive the inevitable\u00a0challenges that are over the horizon.\u00a0\u00a0So how would you know which approach you are using?\u00a0 Well, your feelings are more often\u00a0sadness,\u00a0anger or fear\u00a0then you are probably using the battle metaphor; if in contrast they are feelings of confidence, determination and excitement then you probably see yourself in a race.\u00a0\u00a0The choice is yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you see the challenges that Life presents to you as a series of fight-to-the-death battles or a series of\u00a0stretch-for-the-finish races?\u00a0Why does it matter which approach you choose?\u00a0After all, each has a winner and a loser. Yes, one wins relative to other – but\u00a0what is the absolute cost for both?\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0doodle illustrates the point\u00a0visually.\u00a0In a Battle … <\/p>\n

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