Winning by Tim S. Grover

Author:Tim S. Grover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Balance is an unforgiving tug-of-war, with Winning on the other side. The flag is in the middle, right where balance lives. It’s not here or there, it’s not winning or losing. Dead center. Average. If you compete hard enough, you can pull Winning over to your side. If you lose, Winning drags you into the mud. Your objective is to fight like hell with everything you have, capture Winning, and win the war.

Ready?

You manage to pull Winning a little closer to you, and as soon as that flag moves off-center, balance weakens. Good start, but you’re not there yet. You dig in deeper, and realize you’re being pulled in the other direction, not by Winning but by other obligations. Gotta cut them loose. Now you can pull harder, with more determination. You want this so badly, but you’re distracted by other things and realize that for now, you have to block out everything but this competition. Total focus. Balance is completely gone, and now your focus gets sharper, your anger gets stronger, your muscles are burning, the skin is tearing off your hands. You can’t breathe. More. Harder. Another step, pulling until your arms are trembling. It’s just you and Winning now. One more step… almost there… and Winning takes a giant leap backward, laughing, and yanks you back to where you started.

Flag back to the middle. Balance restored.

Yet you can’t let go. You cannot let go. You can’t lose. You’ve come so far and sacrificed so much.

You don’t even realize how filthy you are. You’re oblivious to the mud on your shoes, the bleeding blisters on your hands—you simply don’t care and you won’t stop until you win or Winning makes you quit. And you’re not going to quit.

Then you look around and realize: No baggage. No distractions. It was just you, fighting for yourself and everyone you care about. Fighting for everything.

For that time, you’re not thinking about anything else. You’re 100 percent invested in what you’re doing, and everything else can wait.

There is no balance here.

You pick up that rope again. You get a towel and wipe the blood off your hands, and make sure Winning sees it; that’s its aphrodisiac. And then you keep going. The tug-of-war with Winning continues.

Or, you can stay in the middle, perfectly balanced, and walk away. Back to safety, back to neutral. Not here or there, not forward or back, not up or down. You’re not alone anymore, because everyone else is in the middle with you, where no decisions or commitments are made, and you can stay average forever. It’s nice. It’s calm. But it sure as hell ain’t Winning.

This is your battle, your race to greatness. How you achieve it, and whether you achieve it, relies solely on your “selfish” ability to prioritize without regret.

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