I had a close call in more ways than one today. Some of those close calls were good news, and some of those close calls prevented really bad news with a minute of corrective action. My point? If we slip and do not fall definitively, it is always a second chance. Getting it right comes down to genuinely understanding what doesn’t work and always doing what really works.

The secret of that carpenter and preacher from the plains of Galilee: “As you believe, so shall you be”, he insinuated. What did he mean by that? Could it have meant a life of cause, effect and getting the genuine and logical measure of his efforts and persistence, no matter what they are? Honestly, I understand that he meant that on the deepest levels when he preached that line. If life defeats us, it is genuinely because we let it, if we win, we also cause it in the sense of understanding where we failed and doing it again the right way later.

In fact, reality comes down to fit and not perfection on the first try. If we always got it right all the time, we would have nothing to gain, do, or live for. Even God is smart enough to make it interesting for God, and existence is an obstacle course of interesting games anyway. Winning won always feels good, but cheating or not winning sure things mostly feels like something is missing. That is the difference that makes the difference. When I think about training and winning for what I really want, I love both the process and the result and it has to be that way if you really want something to mean everything to you in a good way.

I remember this old movie called “Click” about a man played by actor Adam Sandler who used a remote control to skip over the “bad parts” of his life only to finally discover that he missed his whole life. Although it seemed like a “stupid little metaphor” from a movie, now I get the message. For things to mean something to us, we must love the process as much as the result. I get it, and I hope you do too.

I can use the quote “We all love to win, but who loves to train?” much coined by Mark Spitz from the 1972 Olympics in Munich. But, face it, to achieve it all, you have to love the process as much as the results.

Now, I don’t mean to openly strive for perfection, but I do mean that perfection comes from enjoying the process and also enjoying the end achievements of the process, and always doing what you love to do, the “warts” , the challenges and everything else. as well as nice points.