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Down Goes Frasier, Down Goes Frasier.

I was at the driving range, the other day, swinging at golf balls. Notice I didn’t say hitting golf balls. I learned awhile back that if you want to at least sound like a good golfer you say

“swing at the ball”,

not “hit the ball”. I was recalling some of the various golf lessons I’ve had, and specifically the ones I had with “Jimmy”, one of the Golf pros at Westchester Golf Course in Los Angeles. I was feeling a desire some additional lessons. Then, within a split second, the mind (places that hold worry, guilt and all those other trap doors) kicked in and said. ‘You fool, with this economy, you are thinking about taking golf lessons”? You can’t afford that luxury. My response was, you are right. How can I be thinking about taking golf lessons with things being the way they are? Then I heard the voice of conscience speak.

“So, just because the economy is bad, you are now going to stop acknowledging your desires, just toss in the towel and try to survive. Boy, you’re easy? “

I wrestled with these various thoughts and struggled with writing this particular article for my Blog. I wanted to write about desire and how important it is, especially during these times, but I couldn’t get it started.

My feelings continued to be conflicted until yesterday, while in the shower, the euphoric feeling of warm water caressed my body like life’s nectar and opened up my awareness. I recalled a vintage broadcast by Howard Cosell, the famous Sports Announcer of the Ali and Monday Night Football era. It was as if I was taken back to that fateful Monday night of January 23, 1973, in Kingston Jamaica, when, after Frazier being knocked down by Foreman, Cosel, in a poetic and animated way bellowed out

“Down goes Frazier, Down goes Frazier”.

Upon recalling this night and Cosell’s voice, I had to find the video that went along with it. As I watched the video I saw both a metaphorical and practical application to present day.

I am battling desire against the force of worry. What I admired most in watching the short-lived fight again, was the Frazier didn’t stay down; he kept getting back up and trying to fight. He lost the fight, but demonstrated the power of the human spirit to withstand great stress and still keep fighting. Frazier had the desire to fight, even though his body wouldn’t let him go any further.

Being an entrepreneur who owns several service businesses I am concerned with the first line of cuts individuals and companies tend to make during times like this. Service and training are usually the first to be cut.

Bill Gates on CNN today stressed how important, no matter what the economic climate is like, for us to continue to invest in education. I would take that a step further and say, no matter what the economic climate is like, it is very important for us all to continue to spend on our “Desire. Even if you don’t have the cash in hand, to acknowledge the desire and hold it close to you is spending on the desire.

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