My son came to me one day and asked me to accompany him to the gym. He told me that he wanted to show me something. He was about 11 years old and barely five feet tall. He wanted to show me that he could dunk! I had to see this!
I took him over to the gym and he bounced the ball, approached the goal, and cupped the ball under his hand in preparation. My eleven-year-old son, barely even five feet tall went up and dunked the basketball. It was an amazing sight... until I realized how he did it.
Before we went to the gym, he called and asked the maintenance man to lower the goal. The standard had been lowered. I had the guy raise the standard back to its correct height. I explained to my son that the goal should not be lowered so that he can meet it, but that he continue to work hard to meet the standard.
Wow! How many times do we lower the standard for momentary satisfaction rather than continuing to work hard to meet the ultimate standard? This along with a quote recently posted on Instagram by David Crowder have become my motivation for 2018.
Here's to a year of influencing the world by not settling for the lower standard!
