A Successful Journey
Our Game was written not only to encourage girls and young women to follow their dreams of playing professional baseball, but also to show how the main character Maria, was able to sow and grow her own seeds of success.
What is success? How do we know it when we see it — when we feel it? Is it fleeting? Is it long lasting? Is it permanent?
Is the person who spends their entire life meditating on a mountaintop any more or less successful than a world leader? A self-made billionaire? A baseball player?
Success is, of course, however you define it. It can be as simple as getting your driver’s license or getting into your number one college choice, to playing baseball through high school, college and beyond.
But defining success; now that’s the thing. What does success mean to you? Where do you start?
How do you transition a dream into reality? By answering one question – What do you want?
To learn how to answer that question, let’s go back to our friend Maria. What’s the one thing that Maria wants more than anything else in life? To play major league baseball.
However, for most of us, we don’t realize our life’s dream while playing T-ball at 5 years old.
What Maria latched on to at a young age was a tool that is available to all of us, which is, definiteness of purpose. Our raison d’etre.
Remember the question about what constitutes success? For some people it’s a balanced life filled with a multitude of wonderful goals. For others it is a single laser-like focus.
Consider the following:
Defining success for oneself is like editing a book. Keep at it. Again, and again, and again, and again, until your mind, heart and soul all agree that you have reached praxis. Until you have reached definiteness of purpose. When you get there, will you still have thoughts of doubt? Of course, you will. But, like Maria, you will control doubt, doubt won’t control you.
Definiteness of purpose occurs when you decide to leave the on-deck circle, step into the batter’s box, and swing for the fences.