They Couldn't Pay Him to Stop Playing ...
What would you do if you were offered $1 million but accepting it meant you could never do what you loved most again?
That's what baseball player R.A. Dickey had to decide when a routine physical revealed he was missing a ligament in his right arm.
He'd been drafted by the Texas Rangers and was looking at an $825k contract - until a standard medical test revealed he had no ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. They dropped their offer to $75k. It was a crushing turn of events, but all was not lost. Dickey had taken out a million dollar insurance policy on his pitching arm as a sophomore in college.
His choice: take the insurance payout and never play professional baseball again. Or pass on the money and accept the $75k deal.
How much do YOU love what you do for a living? Enough to walk away from a million dollars in order to keep doing it?
You KNOW you're living your passion when you leave that kind of money behind in order to keep doing it.
And deliberate creators know that when we have that much love for what we're doing, that kind of joy attracts more things to be happy about. Case in point - R.A. Dickey's salary this year alone was 5 million dollars with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Not that it's all about money. He's also one of the top knuckleballers of all time. He says, “I'm gonna pitch my butt off until someone takes it away.” Not a surprise coming from a guy whose childhood prayers were to play in the big leagues.
Do you love what you're doing that much? If you're not yet, I don't believe it's ever too late to orient our lives around what we love most.
Conscious creators have an enormous advantage in doing that, because we know anything is possible that we can imagine. (Since it's from our imagination that everything is sourced.) We know it's our focus and conscious attention that determine what we experience.
What are you creating with your powerful imagination these days?
R.A. Dickey is now known as one of the greatest success stories in baseball. And it didn't happen exactly as planned. If you'd like to hear an inspiring story about how things work out not just despite, but because of the contrast we bump into, check out the Knuckleball movie. (Check your cable listings for a replay, too.)
I am doing one of the things I love most in writing this newsletter to you. Talking about LOA with fellow manifesters is my idea of heaven. And it's what I got to do with the fabulous Debra Poneman at Life Without Limits this week. She's actually doing a bunch of cool interviews – not just me – so check out that free series if you haven't already.
(Big thanks to everyone whose written how much they enjoyed that call! I had fun, too!)
Jeannette Maw is the Good Vibe Coach and founder of Good Vibe University. Find more of her manifesting inspiration at Good Vibe Blog