Defining Points, Popeye Moments and Entrepreneurs
I’d like to point you to a piece I’ve just written titled, “Entrepreneurs and Defining Points: Have You Had Your Popeye Moment?” At some point in everyone’s life – you reach a defining moment. Take, for instance, the examples below:
“In the fifth game of the 1986 World Series, Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner flubs the game’s final grounder, igniting a Mets comeback that not only wins the game but ultimately the Series. From that moment on, Buckner is forever branded as the goat of the game.
In the epic play Les Miserables, the hero Jean Valjean, confesses to his pursuer, Inspector Javert, and then saves his foe’s life. This selfless gesture of grace lifts Valjean up from his life’s fate but drives his captor to question his very purpose and ultimately to suicide.”
Have you reached your defining moment? That moment in time when you’re summoning up the strength to overcome what seems like insurmountable odds? Much like Popeye proclaiming, “That’s all I can takes, because I can’t takes no more!” Have YOU cracked open YOUR can of spinach?
*NOTE: This article is originally published at American Express OPEN Forum*
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