Keep swinging for the fences

By the time he retired, Henry Aaron had broken baseball’s home run record. After 23 seasons, he had smashed 755 round trippers. Despite this success, he was keenly aware that failure was a more constant companion.

After all, his lifetime batting average of .305 was good compared to others, but it still translated into a 70 percent failure rate. But his motto was to never quit.

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“Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging,” he said.

Things don’t always go our way. But there is still something to be said about pushing forward. We cannot retreat. We cannot give up.
We cannot let our disappointments in life or in our business consume us.

The best fix is to zero in and go on the offensive again.

We are best when we sit down on the bench, study what just happened, and then come out swinging for the fences again.

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