{"id":7439,"date":"2013-10-17T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:28:02","slug":"wrestling-one-on-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/10\/17\/wrestling-one-on-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling, One-on-One"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hyatt-Wrestling\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
Young Hyatt (in white) equally matched with life, some time during his high school years.<\/h6>\n

Some years ago I learned a life lesson from my son’s wrestling. I had just moved off from being a high level administrator of a large organization and my heart was newly set toward painting. He, some time earlier, had moved from being on his high school football team to wrestling.<\/p>\n

He went out for football in his freshman year. He worked very hard, putting in extra hours; but when the games came, he sat on the bench.<\/p>\n

Remember, he was a freshman. For good reason the best and most experienced were in the game. Still, the boy had put in a lot of work just to sit and watch his team . . . lose.<\/p>\n

And that, Hyatt thought, was in part because the upperclassmen weren’t really all that disciplined, being too cool for that.<\/p>\n

Not that wrestling was an immediate success. In his whole first year he didn’t win one match.<\/p>\n

In wrestling, your opponent is in your same weight class. In Hyatt’s case, these were almost always older, meaning more experienced, another thing that matters.<\/p>\n

But, unlike with football, he competed at every meet!<\/p>\n

Besides that, he knew the outcome was up to him, how much he worked between meets, etc. Okay, the opponent might be stronger or better, but he could still give it his all.<\/p>\n

I’m limited on space or I’d elaborate on how he went on to win medal after medal, ultimately being the first to represent his school at State Championships.<\/p>\n

But that’s not my point, rather that he chose an endeavor that was one-on-one and where he could personally affect the outcome.<\/p>\n

. \u00a0. \u00a0.<\/p>\n

Back to my story and how it corresponds.<\/p>\n

My tenure in organizational leadership was one of the great periods of my life. I loved it. It stretched me in areas I didn’t know I had to be stretched in. Not that I was always successful. Life’s more complicated than that. Nor, like with the high school football players, was it always easy to get everyone to give it their best.<\/p>\n

How that ended and my new career began is another story, but in time I found myself living a whole other kind of life. Instead of big projections and planning and rallying and encouraging and holding many meetings and speaking everywhere, I was in my studio, painting, by myself.<\/p>\n

And I began to see the comparison between football and wrestling, one a team sport, the other individual . . . both having their place, both to love, but different.<\/p>\n

In painting the opponent is also equally matched. It’s called the blank canvas<\/em>. It challenges me to conquer it, or be defeated.<\/p>\n

It’s up to me, and only up to me. Experience matters. So does effort, discipline, perseverance, good mental attitude and all the rest.<\/p>\n

Besides that, one is always moving into a new weight class. As I grow, so does the challenge.<\/p>\n

In wrestling and in painting and probably everything else, we’re matched up with life equally in our weight class. It’s one-on-one. And\u00a0we rarely sit on the bench.<\/p>\n

What are you wrestling today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re back from Spain. Back in the studio. Here’s a thought for you . . . about how our challenges are equally matched with who we are, and are ultimately met one-on-one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}