Do you recall dot to dot coloring books? Did you have them when you were young? I did. I loved the adventure of turning the book open with anticipation. I was looking to find just the right one… with lots of dots. Once I found the one that really appealed to me… the one that got me really excited, I would find just the right color crayon and off I would go on my journey. Excited about reaching the conclusion….

Recently, I was having a discussion with a new acquaintance. I was sharing with her a presentation I had just completed. In the presentation, I was talking about how I remembered going out for the baseball team when I was a kid, I was not very talented. But I had an ace in the hole. The coach guaranteed me a spot on the team. Back in the day, that was unheard of….. Today, it’s not farfetched. I really didn’t deserve to make that team.

A few years later, I tried out for the freshman basketball team. I worked hard, but in the end I got cut. It was a huge disappointment. So, I figured that if I worked harder, maybe just maybe I could make the sophomore team. And at the end of the day, I did make the team. It was a great day for me… and a huge lesson emerged as a result.

I was guaranteed a spot on the team…… but I didn’t pay attention to the fact that I wasn’t good enough, and I missed the lesson. Work hard, achieve and your success will be yours. Had someone cared enough to be honest and not submit to such a breach of trust? I may have learned the lesson sooner. However I wasn’t paying attention. I only cared that I made the team.

Life is often like a dot to dot picture. We find something to focus on. We have a starting point and we focus on the dots. (Each one a end result to an experience in our life) But that’s only part of the experience. In most dot to dot pictures, there were lines, eyes, texture that brought the picture to life. Just like in life, we move from experience to experience…. but did you pay attention to the lesson? Did you recognize it? Did we fully experience the texture and intricacies of the lesson? Were you able to pull apart the various strands of the experience so that you could fully appreciate the lesson? Did you read between the lines?
When you pay attention to the lessons and the event, its then that you can fully embrace the complete picture of your life!
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