While sports analogies can be overused and leaned on too easily, we can also learn sometimes from the sports world and bring that learning into our businesses. What sports does better than most is measure the production value of players and teams very predicatively towards an ultimate outcome, a well-defined, win or lose. Right now baseball is buzzing about the "long-term deals". These are the 10-year contracts at the time when a player's production values can fall because of age. Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols are exhibits one and two right now. As we age in the business world, we might want to say a thank you that there are not such tangible and easy to see measurements as baseball. We might be very surprised at how we decline with age. But we should measure ourselves and be sure that we are still keeping up, fitting in and staying current. If we are not measuring and watching carefully, we need to know that others are and will make their own decisions for us, without us. Consider what playwright and Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw had to say about the subject:
“The only man who behaves sensibly
is my tailor; he takes my measure anew each time he sees me, while all
the rest go on with their old measurements and expect them to fit me.”
God does not grade us on a curve, nor does He every consider discarding us because of what happens to us with age. But, He does expect that we continue to grow in our faith, regardless of age and circumstance. Some of the most faithful people I know are the oldest and most mature, chronologically and in experience. God meets us where we are. Are we seeing this today as a gift and not taking that gift for granted? Let's do a self-assessment today and be sure that we take a step forward in our faith and dependence on Him. Our faith and sharing of His love and grace adds value to the Kingdom. We can bring glory to God in whatever we do today! Let's do it!
Reference: 1 Samuel 26:24 (New Living Translation)
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