Did You Play Your Heart Out ?

Did You Play Your Heart Out ?

Happy Weekend.  What a respite indeed after a week-long work but hey, DON'T get me wrong, I love my work, enjoying every task, every call, every interaction. But to set things straight, this piece is NOT literally about 'hearts' but it's all about how we lead life, how we played out in life, in every endeavor, every pursuit we were glued at.  What separates the men from the boys, the performers from the laggards, the cream from the crumbs all boils down to one  variable, and that is, how each one of us played out each game we went into because surely, each of us ended up with varying results but remember we had the same goals ?

You could be a student now locked-in to your online classes, a worker isolated in your room due to this pandemic or you could be the spouse or partner whose day-to-day agenda is the upkeep of your home and of course your kids. Or you and your partner are so insanely locked into gaming. But if there is a commonality amongst you all, it's the tough question you need to answer:  DID YOU PLAY YOUR HEART OUT ?

And if there's a NO-NO, it is a NO-NO to utter that you 'have no idea where i'm going'.  That's a huge setback even before you embark on your journey because you tend to be a rudderless boat ready to sail off to the high seas.  How far can you go from the shore?  I'm worried that your boat may just run around in circles or worst, run aground.  We DON'T want that heartbreaking result, right ?  C'mon, let's figure that out.

At the end of the day, we all owe it to ourselves to ask ourselves, "WHAT'S THE STORY'.  Asking that stomping question just makes sense because it is testimonial and reflective of how you played that game you were in.  As a student, did you aim for 98% or 99% grades ?  As a worker, did you angle to be the TOP PERFORMER ?  As a spouse or partner, can you beat your chest and claim that you did it all and gave it all for your spouse or partner ?

Oh, I got enamored to this poster which says, "DON'T LET THE GAME PLAY YOU, YOU PLAY THE GAME".  What it means is, you gotta steer the game, control the game end-to-end and never just spin off and spin out of orbit because you'll lose the game BIGTIME, whew !  Over in the NBA, the top teams are now battle-ready for the post season playoffs reeling off tomorrow [that's Sunday, Asia time zones]. And to quote Jimmy Butler, Miami Heat's undisputed leader, he is "INSANELY LOCKED IN".  Heart, body, mind and soul, he's all battle-ready to grind and out-grind the competition.  And he won't mince words to 'crack the whip' if any of his teammates don't play their hearts out because that's MEDIOCRITY and plainly unacceptable, under any terms.

There you go, folks.  We're all into our respective games and pursuits in life.  And BTW, we're not into it for the sake of being part of the game.  We're 'IN IT TO WIN' and if that means kicking your ass damn hard, go for it because you gotta out-grind the competition.  And BTW, sometimes that competition is WHO ?  That could be YOU, dude, that part of you whispering you to take things easy while the better part of yourself keeps pushing you to PLAY YOUR HEART OUT.✅✅✅