Over-swing

Yes­ter­day I finally took my son to the dri­ving range. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. It’s been too darn cold. But he is pas­sion­ate about golf and couldn’t wait another day. It was a trau­matic expe­ri­ence. He filmed my swing. It was ugly. I grossly over-swing. Way beyond the point of use­ful­ness, well into the realm of bad form and destruc­tive mechan­ics. Big isn’t bet­ter in this case.

Do you over swing? Do you spend a ton of time at work? Do you spend too much energy adapt­ing? Do you spend more time than is help­ful? I know it’s easy pick­ings to say “work smarter not harder” but as easy as that is to say some­times it’s eas­ier to just do the work. To just stay late. To just carry some­one else’s slack. To blow off hav­ing that tough talk and con­tinue to put up with their atti­tude. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not going to be easy to change my golf swing. It’s not going to be easy to do the smart things in your busi­ness or orga­ni­za­tion but if we don’t we’ll only con­tinue to adapt to prob­lems, striv­ing to get back to accept­able instead of push­ing through to excellent.