Today’s Navigate the Chaos question is “How often do you remind yourself that the size of the fight in the dog matters most?”
People who navigate the chaos know all too well Mark Twain’s comment “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Diligence, energy, and commitment matter far more than size when translating dreams into reality.
When he was drafted in the fourth round into the National Hockey League, scouts said that Mark Recchi was too small and too slow to succeed at the professional level.
He would go to play 22 years in the National Hockey League.
Recchi was a member of three Stanley Cup-winning teams, the 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins, the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes and the 2011 Boston Bruins.
In Game Two of the 2011 Finals, he became the oldest player ever to score in a Stanley Cup Finals series. In 2017 he was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
How often do you remind yourself that the size of the fight in the dog matters most?