There is an approach to life that is based on that which can be measured.
How long? How much? What time? Which place? The quantifiables in life. You know where you stand when it can be quantified. Things like your goals in life should be quantifiable.
Yet, you watch certain things in life take place and people do well for reasons and factors that just cannot be quantified.
Two teams play a sport. One team has the better players, more money, greater support and so to all intents and purposes that team should win. Yet the other team does and there are understandable questions of why. In some cases it could be because the bigger team did not put in the needed performance. There are occasions however, where it is more to do with what that ‘lesser’ team does.
When it’s reviewed certain words come out – greater belief, better team spirit, far more harmony and cohesion. How is that measured? How can you quantify that?
You win once and before you know it you develop a habit of winning to the extent that you’re said to have a winning mentality. What is that? How do you measure a way of thinking? Just based on the outcomes? But there is a clear difference between what is achieved and how it is achieved.
That which cannot be quantified.
We can talk a good talk about technique and tactics. We can study and be well briefed on strategy and resources. We can have stories and manuals telling us how we can do this or that. Yet when it comes to the application, there is that added element.
That which cannot be quantified.
Some want to refer to luck or good fortune. Others want to put it down to hard work and giving 100% at all times. It is their effort to explain that which cannot always be so easily explained if at all.
Whenever I come across what cannot be quantified, I am grateful for it. I am delighted to celebrate it. And though it cannot be quantified, perhaps it can be cultivated through an attitude of gratitude and humility.
Perhaps.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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