“Good players buy in”
“Great players are locked in”
” Champions are ALL IN”
Tom Crean – Indiana University
“Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it with all your might” Ecclesiastes 9:10
Do you know what it means to live your life to the hilt? According to Webster’s dictionary this phrase means to the very limit or completely. “the farm was mortgaged to the hilt.” A second definition is with nothing lacking; “she played the role to the hilt.”
The word hilt is a noun to refer to a part of a sword or dagger. A sword has three parts but most people can only name two of them: the handle and the blade. You cut things with the blade. You hold the sword with the handle. The part of the sword that protects your hand from the blade is the hilt. When you are on the battlefield, your hands would get sweaty. The blood would also tend to make the handle very slippery. If you were dealing with an extremely sharp sword in the heat of the battle you would need something to prevent your hand from slipping. The part that protects your hand is the hilt.
Picture yourself on the battlefield in a Braveheart type setting. You are fighting for family, home and freedom. Your way of life and your own existence depend on the outcome of that battle.
How would you fight?
Do you think you would daintily stick your enemy?
Would you stick him a couple of inches deep in the shoulder to try to convince him to go home and leave you alone?
Not me. I’ve never been called on to go to a battlefield and fight for the ones I love. (Maybe that’s why I have so much respect for those who have made great sacrifices to keep our country free). But I can only imagine that any enemy that threatens my family is going to face all the force that I can bring to the battlefield. There would be no half measures. I wouldn’t stick or stab them. I’d run them all the way through – TO THE HILT.
John Stuart Mill said,
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only
interests.”
He was close but the truth is one person with commitment is a greater force than ninety-nine who have only interests. Passion, enthusiasm, conviction, fire in your belly – call it what you will – ensures that a person won’t take no for an answer. There are no plan B contingencies.
Check back to read about 3 things which prevent people living life “to the hilt”
Please comment and give me an example of someone you know who exemplifies living life “to the hilt”
-Coach T
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