2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-14
Days to Go
17
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Reviewed
Story focusing exercise.
Total time: 15 minutes
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the Fender Roland-Ready Strat
Grace
City Practice
Oh Come Emmanuel
You Are Good
Silent Night
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Revelation Song
God is Faithful
It Is Well With My Soul
Total time: 90 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Active
rest
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Grace
City Sunday Set List work (MojoCaster)
Oh Come Emmanuel
You Are Good
Silent Night
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Revelation Song
God is Faithful
It Is Well With My Soul
Rig
check and pack
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Notes: Fourteen days and counting.
What Caddyshack
Teaches About Life
Ty
Webb: Oh, Judge, I don't keep score.
Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?
Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?
Ty
Webb: By height.
I
have friends that quote “Caddyshack” from memory. They always look for ways to inject dialogue
from the movie into everyday conversation.
For us it’s an inside joke because most of the people we’re around
either have not seen the movie or are too young to relate. I will not browbeat you with all the reasons
why “Caddyshack” is such a great movie.
Either you like it or you don’t.
Besides all the great Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray lines, the
exchange above between Chevy Chase and Ted Knight offers some real life
lessons.
At
first blush, you could dismiss those lines as typical Chevy Chase wiseacre
humor (it is). Dig deeper into the
question, “Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?” is an
excellent question. How do YOU measure
yourself with other _______________? How
you measure yourself connects to how you feel about yourself. Taken further, Judge Smails’ question leads
to a deeper question, “Should you measure yourself against others?”
Ty
Webb’s comment he doesn’t keep score and his answer that he measures himself
with other golfers by height is a nice bit of psychological judo. Realizing Judge Smails is not concerned about
how Ty measures himself with other golfers, but is more concerned about how he
measures himself against other golfers. The
judge’s need to validate himself by comparing himself to other golfers makes
him a desperate character. Since Ty
doesn’t keep score, Judge Smails has no frame of reference to determine if he
is a better or worse golfer than Ty. Judge
Smails is desperate to find out how he measures up against Ty, so he asks him
how he measures himself against other golfers.
The
lesson here is when you measure yourself with others, no matter how good you
are, at some point you will come up short.
I am not advocating some Stuart Smalley-type anti-competition where
everyone gets a trophy, I am advocating not being too wrapped up in the
measurement. When you define yourself by
your score (golf handicap, salary, status, height, etc.), you abrogate your
ability to define yourself. You are not
that score. Even if it’s a really good
score, who you are is so much more than that.
You are so much more that focusing on the score blinds you (and others)
to the myriad gifts, attributes and blessings you have, you might never reach
your potential because you are not fully aware of it.
So,
how do you measure yourself with others?
Should you?
