{"id":1312,"date":"2009-10-06T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:34:41","slug":"passion-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/passion-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion &#038; Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played golf with a friend the other day and it reminded me of how passionate I used to be about anything that had to do with the game of golf. I played every chance I got, I worked at a golf store, I researched, tested and bought new clubs. While many of my peers seemed to have a modest interest in the game, looking back I feel that it consumed me in both good and bad ways.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my belief that you have to forget about a lot of things to excel at one thing. There is a metaphor for success that involves a stove top with four burners. To excel in any one area, one must shut off two of their burners.  The burners, which represent different areas of one&#8217;s life, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work<\/li>\n<li>Health<\/li>\n<li>Family<\/li>\n<li>Friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking back at certain times in my life, I&#8217;ve turned off or turned down different burners at different times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High School Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice: Golf being work, I turned down friends and family. Friends by choosing to hit golf balls on summer afternoons instead of beaching it with them. Family by creating a vacuum around me &#8211; time at the dinner table discussing my play, money spent on travel, lost work time, and mental anguish as I plodded my way around each course.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: Being great takes hard work, time, and sacrifices by those around you. I had a tremendous amount of support that I took for granted. Thinking about this now, I have a greater appreciation for the endurance required to be a parent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruckus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice: I turned off health. That&#8217;s really all I can admit to turning down, although, for the first time in my life, I was living in another state from my family and probably could have called\/written\/whatever more often. But this was a health sacrifice. I worked myself into the ground after five months, ended up with mononucleosis, and gained weight.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: It took until my second year in law school to give in to working out regularly and eating well (or at least better). Now when I overeat or eat too much junk, it pisses me off because I know I&#8217;m not doing what is right for my body. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve all heard this before &#8211; that our bodies are holy sacred places. Who wants fast food in a place so dear?<\/p>\n<p>The point of all of this is that we make different sacrifices at different times in our lives. It&#8217;s healthy to recognize where we are lacking and that it&#8217;s impossible to keep four burners on high year after year. I&#8217;ve never been able to do it. What can be done is to seek moderation in all four areas, and be willing to sacrifice in any one area if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played golf with a friend the other day and it reminded me of how passionate I used to be about anything that had to do with the game of golf. I played every chance I got, I worked at a golf store, I researched, tested and bought new clubs. While many of my peers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-our-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}