Don't Try so Hard Son!

Is it possible to try too hard.  In sport, it is often said, that you need to relax and trust your swing, or your rhythm, or your ability and talent.  But very often, the ones we say this about, are also people that have spent countless hours, preparing for the very moment and have sacrificed so much, to get the opportunity to succeed.  In life, many times, we also work ourselves to a point or place, where we may get the opportunity of a lifetime and we tell ourselves, not to overplay it, or to remain calm before the presentation, or the discussion, only to try too hard and perhaps not deliver the words or message, as we wanted.  But the important thing remains, that we have shown enough discipline and dedication to get to the moment itself and this time and effort cannot be discounted and should not be considered as a waste?  In fact we need to sometimes take a moment to reflect in the effort and be grateful, that we have received the anointing or ability, to be placed in a position or situation in the first place. Sometimes, people do come at the right time and bring an encouraging word, which gives us comfort.  Sometimes a difficult situation gives rise to a new opportunity and a greater season than we expected.  But there is no doubt, that trying the same thing continually sometimes draws us into a bad habit and we end up repeating things for the sake of habit and we never see that the opportunity is slowly slipping away.  We keep "hitting balls" because we think that the more we hit, the better our chance to hit the perfect shot.  But often times it is when we stop repeating the shot over and over and rather grab another club in our hand and hit a different type of shot, or take a risk on a different opportunity, that the breakthrough comes.  In the movie Sex Tape, a couple have always had good sex without trying and yet now years into their marriage, they are confronted with the fact that their trying is getting them nowhere and they decide to make a tape to rekindle their successful past .  It sets off a series of lessons much like we experience in life and business and yet in the end it grants them a breakthrough, that the skills they have learnt over the years, are not lost but able to provide them with foresight and passion to achieve a greater success (love).  So when your 'trying' becomes too 'trying' take a 'moment' to think about the 'moments' gone by and give yourself the 'break' you need to put the 'brakes' on failure and I am sure that the next 'season' of your life will have a rich new 'flavour'.