How to live fearlessly while under great pressure.
How can a sports team, or an individual, under the pressure of a big game, even a championship playoff, live with freedom, reckless abandon? You need a healthy-indifference to the outcome: willing to fail, succeed, whatever. The outcome cannot be the focus. Winning is not the goal. Playing with excellence is the goal, and it’s impossible to play with excellence, to play your very best, when you are unwilling to fail, when you MUST win, MUST succeed. A healthy indifference to the outcome, enables you to play with reckless abandon, uninhibited, to play your very best. Only the humble are willing to fail, are unbothered by losing. Only the humble see loss, mistake, failure, as a learning experience. Only the proud are eaten up with failure-avoidance, risk-avoidance, are unwilling to fail and learn from the failure. Only the humble have the patience to take the long road to achieving excellence. The proud wanna win TODAY, are unwilling to fail and learn from the failure. So only the proud get uptight, feel pressure, are prevented from playing their very best.
How can a proud Christian become humble? CONFESS your pride, your dissatisfaction with Jesus and His imputed worthiness, wanting some worthiness of your own. Humility is a fruit of the Spirit’s work, not something I generate. I get zero credit.
— Dave McCarty, GospelFriendships
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