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KEEP YOUR FOCUS
“To the victor goes the spoils,” the well-known saying tells us. But the victory doesn’t always go to the most gifted or skilled person. Sometimes the ability to keep your focus makes the difference between success and failure.
That’s a lesson golfing legend Arnold Palmer learned the hard way in the 1961 Masters tournament. He led by a stroke going into the final hole. All he had to do was put the ball on the green, make par, and victory was his. But he lost his focus.
Walking up to the 18th green, he stopped to say hello to an old friend in the crowd. They shook hands and briefly celebrated Arnold’s certain victory. But as soon as Arnold returned his attention to the course, he realized his ball had landed in a sand trap. He wasn’t expecting such a challenging shot and misplayed it. By the time he sank his final putt, his lead had evaporated, and he lost the tournament. “It was a bad mistake,” he later said. “I had a one-shot lead, but I kind of forgot you have to finish.”
Whether it’s a golf tournament, your marriage, your parenting, or a desire to deepen your faith in God, you have to remember to finish. Nobody runs a race to get to the middle. It’s finishing strong that counts. To do that, you have to keep your focus on the goal that God has placed before you.
For a daily dose of encouragement and perspective, check out Jim Daly’s blog, Daly Focus, at JimDalyBlog.com.
“To the victor goes the spoils,” the well-known saying tells us. But the victory doesn’t always go to the most gifted or skilled person. Sometimes the ability to keep your focus makes the difference between success and failure.
That’s a lesson golfing legend Arnold Palmer learned the hard way in the 1961 Masters tournament. He led by a stroke going into the final hole. All he had to do was put the ball on the green, make par, and victory was his. But he lost his focus.
Walking up to the 18th green, he stopped to say hello to an old friend in the crowd. They shook hands and briefly celebrated Arnold’s certain victory. But as soon as Arnold returned his attention to the course, he realized his ball had landed in a sand trap. He wasn’t expecting such a challenging shot and misplayed it. By the time he sank his final putt, his lead had evaporated, and he lost the tournament. “It was a bad mistake,” he later said. “I had a one-shot lead, but I kind of forgot you have to finish.”
Whether it’s a golf tournament, your marriage, your parenting, or a desire to deepen your faith in God, you have to remember to finish. Nobody runs a race to get to the middle. It’s finishing strong that counts. To do that, you have to keep your focus on the goal that God has placed before you.
For a daily dose of encouragement and perspective, check out Jim Daly’s blog, Daly Focus, at JimDalyBlog.com.
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Think of your favorite song. Boil it down, and it’s really just a collection of single notes. But allow the hands of a master to string those notes together, and they swell into a majestic rhythm. Likewise, a life lived well is a parade of individual days, which only Christ can orchestrate into eternal significance. It’s through this daily walk with the Lord that we learn how to live out the virtues of our Christian faith. It’s a moment by moment journey that transforms us into people of strength, character, and integrity.
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