What is Your Sweet Spot?

Dear Friend,   Portions of this week's newsletter are taken from The Emerging Woman.   All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered: the point is to discover them. ~Galileo Galilei   A sweet spot in baseball is when the ball and bat connect in just the right place. And the ball goes flying, unstoppable. The same is true for golf. It describes the moment when the golf club and the golf ball meet in just the right place to launch the ball far into the distance. Tiger Woods understands "sweet spot" though he may have another word for it. A sweet spot is the place where time ceases to exist and all else around you bypasses reality, and meets or exceeds expectation.   Author Max Lucado in Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot, offers inspiration on finding our sweet spot in life. He suggests that what engineers and technology gurus have done for sports equipment Goad has provided for each of us. We each have a special sweet spot specifically fitted for our strengths, gifts, and talents.   Make It Happen   This week ponder when and where you are in your sweet spot. To do so, start by identifying five activities when you find yourself totally and completely immersed, when you forget time and lose track of what is going on around you. Once you find these five activities look to identify two or three common themes. A theme might be working outdoors, being with people, facing a mental or physical challenge. Take this week and see if you can zone in on your sweet spot. Once you get close, test it out. Ask yourself, when doing "your sweet spot" are you lost in time and space enjoying yourself? If not, keep searching. Once you identify and verbalize your sweet spot take the next step and deliberately weave these elements into your day. See how you can incorporate more of "your sweet spot" into your day, your week, and your month. Don't be afraid to get creative! The result of course is that you will get to work less and be more.

Blessings to you, Margaret.