Want To Be A Tiger? Work Like A Dog!
Tiger Woods is in town. He’ll be taking his annual stroll through my backyard this week. I live in Grand Blanc, MI and on Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club where the Buick Open is played.
He has the smoothest, most powerful stroke of any player I have ever seen. The calm he exhibits must come from Buddhist lessons taught to him by his mother. He approaches each and every shot like it is his last and like there wasn’t another just a few minutes before. But, we know all this. We see it on
television every week. What you may not know is what is shown on television is just a tidbit of what Tiger does during a tournament week. And, what he does can only be described as Work! With the capital ‘W’!
During tournament week the course gets buzzing well before the sun comes up. There are fairways and greens to be mowed, sand traps to be raked and a hundred other things to be taken care of before the crowd starts to gather. But golf course attendants do this work.
If you look over at the driving range, or the practice green, you’ll see golf pros doing their work. And, always, Tiger Woods Working on his game.
It doesn’t matter that he just won the British Open. It doesn’t matter that he has the smoothest, most powerful stroke. It doesn’t matter that he makes more money than the guy swinging a club next to him. It doesn’t matter that he will draw an estimated 70,000 more people to the tournament than if he didn’t show up.
What matters is the Work!
Before his round, after his round. Rain or shine. Putting in the Work to be the most successful golfer in the history of the game. As you might be able to tell, I admire the man. He is, in every sense of the word, a true professional.
Most business people I encounter could learn a thing or two from Tiger. They could work on their business instead of treating their business like they are always on the course. If attracting an extra 70,000 prospects, in a week, to your game was the result, would you do the work?
It’s fashionable for people to tout how easy it can be to grow a business. The “programs, secrets and systems” are all over the internet. I strongly disagree. I’ll take my cues from Tiger
If you want to be a Tiger, work like a dog!
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I agree. It’s interesting that the truly, truly great ones never forget that key ingredient; work!
Just like Tiger Woods does today in his sport, it’s said that Michael Jordan and Larry Bird “never stopped practicing.” And, I remember hearing that Carl Yastrzemski (The Hall of Famer with the Boston Red Sox) would take batting practice until his hands had so many blisters that “his blisters had blisters.” Story has it that one of the more average players on the team saw him doing this and said, “That’s crazy. I’d never spend that kind of time taking batting practice.” Sort of says it all, doesn’t it?
Great article again, Sean!
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