Finishers Seek Stress

The great Seth Godin wrote a post about stress the other day. He inspires me even in his "worth thinking about" moments.

HERE is the post entitled Stressed.

This is great stuff to think about if you are a marketer ... what is the language we use and how does it color our approach to what we do.

I also think that Seth's post is very applicable in the Finisher's Qualities arena...

Great Finishers seek out stress. If you can't turn stress to your advantage...if you can't take the stress that will come when you "put yourself out there" or when you find yourself in a stressful situation... then you will not finish.

The movie "Miracle" was on this weekend...it is the story of one of the great jobs of Finishing in sports history.

The 1980 USA men's hockey team grew and learned how to finish.

10 days before they defeated the USSR 4 to 3...they had lost to them 10 - 3.

Herb Brooks had put his team into a very stressful situation BEFORE the Olympics started so that when the tournament started...they had already gone through it.

Great Finishers seek out stress, fail, and then seek it out some more.

Thank you Seth for helping me with my blog this morning! I was stressed about what I was going to write about!