The Ordinary Impact

Today, the United States of America celebrates 241 years as an independent country. Our founding fathers did not want to be ruled with an iron fist. They did not want to be dictated to and looked down upon. They desired independence. Freedom. Every year we celebrate that freedom, as we remember the struggle of our founding fathers who were revolutionaries and rebels. We celebrate and remember the loyalty and bravery of so many men and women who fought to defend freedom around the world. We honor the many soldiers who put the lives of others above their own. On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty - designed by Frederic August Bartholdi’s and built by Gustave Eiffel - was dedicated in New York Harbor. Seventeen years later, “ The New Colossus ” poem, written by Emma Lazarus was cast onto the bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level as a reminder of the liberty offered in the United States of America. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yea...

We’ve all heard the phrase “ never put off until tomorrow what you can do today ,” yet all of us are guilty of, at least a little, procrastination.  We can even find excuses to procrastinate: “We’re just waiting for the right moment.” “You cannot rush creativity.” “Huh? I didn’t know I was supposed to do that. You meant today?” (Said by every teenager at some point, right?) The point of this post is not to bash procrastination. (I’m sure it can be useful, at times.) This post is focused specifically on the downside of one of the biggest procrastination blunders in Major League Baseball history and how we can learn from it. Please permit some baseball history: On December 2, 1991, the New York Mets made Bobby Bonilla the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball, when he signed a five-year, $29 million contract. His production began to fade so he was traded, in 1995, and in the following years bounced to a couple more teams before being tr...