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"Each man (is) the architect of his own fortune."

Appius Caecus

GOOD TO GREAT

"Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want." Brian Tracy

     Have you ever stop to thing how much work it really takes to more from GOOD TO GREAT in life? Or what is the biggest obstacle that is STOPPING MOSTPEOPLE from transforming their life from GOOD TO GREAT? I can tell you in one word: EXCUSEITES

     Let's look at baseball, and how a player gets paid. If you are GOOD player and you have a batting average of 250 this means that you get a hit 5 time for every 20 times you go to the plate. Now if you can field and do a few other things GOOD, then you can make a real nice living

     Now the GREAT PLAYER with abatting average of 300 not only is paid more then the average Joe, but all kinds of opportunity to make more MONEY comes his way. How big is the number from 250 to 300 well it's not 50....in fact is ONLY 1.

     Yes you read that number right, it is ONLY 1, the GREAT PLAYER get 6 hits out of 20 times at the plate, were the average Joe gets 5 out of 20. I know the next question is why doesn't the average Joe work harder to get 1 more hit.

     Maybe he happy were he at, or he was told that he would never be a 300 hitter, or ..........you put in what you want. What ever the answer is that you or he comes up with, the fact is that he is still a 250 hitter.

     Now my answer is that he has a REALLY BAD CASE OF EXCUSEITES. Did you know that the BABE not only held the record for most home runs, but for the most struck outs?

     Here is a another lesson, the number used in statistics will not change, but it's not the number themselves but how the number were made that tell the real story and most people do not understand this. When a player go to the plate there are only 3 out come, a hit, a walk, or a out, that all he can get.

     Well it is true that a player with 300 average will make more money then one with 250, a player with less then 250 may make more then both player together.

     Now, it you were a own, and I came to you and told you that I had a player (not a pitcher) with a 195 average and has never hit a home rum and as his agent I would not take less then 6 million per year. What would you tell me/or where to go? This is another one of those trick questions.

     Since the object of the game is to get people on bases and move them around until they reach home plate, (why the batting order is so important.) I am telling you that this player would be the best player as your number 1 batter. I can see this is another one of those: What are you talking about Jack, if the idea is to get a person on base and your guy is only batting 195, and he is not a pitcher, who bat last, has never hit a home run, WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?

     My guy is only 3 feet tall and when he come to bat they walk him 15 times out of 20. The other times think that since he has never hit a home run and they do not want to walk him, they throw the ball softly and he gets a hit.

     SINCE HE GETS ON BASE MOST OF THE TIME AND HE IS FOLLOWED BY 3 VERY GOOD PLAYER THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE HIM TO HOME PLATE, THE OBJECT OF THE GAME. I think that 6 million is a fair price for this player.

     Now there are a lot of reasons why there has only been 1 very short player in mlb, and he only played in one game. But if you look at the Dodges in the 80's they won more game then any other team and they did not have super stars.

     Back to how the number are made that is IMPORTANT. The player batting 250 and the one batting 300 both play in the same amount of game and for the same amount of years.

     When both player stand at the plate, the mind set of the players is the differences. The 250 player is looking for the right pitch, and if more often standing with his bat in the ready, as the umpire calls STRICK. Where as the 300 player is SWINGING the bat, when the umpire calls STRICK.

    The more time you swing the bat the better changes you have of hitting the ball. And the more time you swing with BAD INTINTIONS (getting a home run) the more of them you will also get, I think it was MJ that said you miss all the baskets you don't shoot.

     As for EXCUSEITES you can hear them, the pitcher is afraid of me, I had nothing good to look at (that why the umpire call stick when you were looking and not swinging) This was not my day, I just can't get a hit of that guy (maybe if you swag the bat you could).

     At this point I could be asking you what is your batting average? But who cares. You may have only been to bat 1 time and hit a home run and it would be 1000 or 2 times and hit a base hit and it would be 500. Then maybe you don't play ball at all. The point of the story is show you that it only takes a very small amount of effect to make a big different.

     How about if you learn how to use that new program, tool or what ever you work with. How about if you did your and job and a little more. What do you think might happen if you took classes to learn something that you could use on your job. That you turn in your paper work in on time and correct. How about if you return the phone calls when you said you would.

     I don't know your job like you do, but don't you think that if you look at all the things you have to do, that you could not find any ways to do it faster, better in less time.

     Do you really have to do it: "The way it has always been done?" One of the problems in most company is that most of the employees keep saying "It's not my job or they don't pay me to do that."

     I was in a store the other day and I asked a employee for help, I was told it was not his dept and he left the area. I left also. I went to another store and was told the same thing only this time the employee, said But I know who can help you, let me go find him for you PLEASE WAIT HERE. A few minutes later he was back with another employee and that person was able to help me. On the way out I saw the first employee and he took the time to ask me if I was able to get want I wanted and did the other employee help me. Guess what store will get my money?

     I can tell you this, you do not have to worry about any person taking your job who say's 'that is not his job, I am not paid to do this.' If you do, don't worry that company will not be in business very long and you would not have been happy working there.

                                                                                      Jack Boston