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Being in the wrong ballpark is a mere scheduling error<\/span>
\nMaybe I need a game changer<\/span><\/p>\n

This simple two-line poem is meant to challenge the reader regarding both the size and nature of change that may be needed to change one’s life, to better one’s life.\u00a0 Being in the wrong ballpark<\/em> is a generally recognized phrase for being in the wrong place to accomplish what you want to accomplish.\u00a0 This poem plants the idea that being in the wrong ballpark may be\u00a0merely a scheduling error, a matter of timing.\u00a0 Of course, timing is often said to be everything, and a timing error or scheduling error itself can be fatal to one’s enterprise.\u00a0 However, in combination with the second line of the poem, the nature of the error committed and the change needed to correct such an error is put forth as potentially a mere distraction.\u00a0 Even the second line, maybe I need a game changer<\/em>, has a double meaning and is more than what it first appears.\u00a0 The typical usage of the phrase game changer<\/em> refers to a significant event that changes the course of the game.\u00a0 However, the second and intended meaning of this phrase refers to changing the game itself, not merely playing the current game better.\u00a0 Self-help gurus and inspirational speakers like to talk about paradigm shifts.\u00a0 The reality of needing a paradigm shift hits home when one finds oneself doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results (which many define as insanity).\u00a0 This usually doesn’t happen all at once, and the incremental nature of getting progressively diminishing returns on one’s investment in an enterprise often leads one with the illusion that if one just works harder, or perhaps even smarter, that one can change the nature of the unsatisfactory results one is getting.\u00a0 Thus, it is often not immediately clear when changing the game itself is needed, when a paradigm shift is needed.\u00a0 The image that comes to mind is a frog in a pot of heating water.\u00a0 If a frog were thrown in a pot of boiling water it would immediately jump out.\u00a0 But, if a frog is placed in a pot of cool water that is slowly heated, the frog will adapt to its changing conditions and desensitize itself to its impending demise, being cooked alive.\u00a0 Do you have something in your life that gives you a warm satisfaction, perhaps even because you have adapted so well to changing and difficult circumstances, but you are seeing red flags of some impending doom?\u00a0 If so, you may want to ponder changing the game.\u00a0 Go ahead, hop to it!\u00a0 Saunas can be nice for limited times but knowing when a change of venue is needed can be life saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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