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I love accuracy!

My friend recently posted a picture on Facebook of his paralleled parked car. It took skill, timing, and accuracy. He was so proud.

I am fascinated at baseball players being able to hit a small hard ball coming at them at 100 mph. Or, the accuracy of a soccer player kicking a ball while twisting in the air and it goes pass the goalie and into the net for a “GOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL” (as announcer Andres Cantor would call it)!

The thought of accuracy took me back to my childhood in Puerto Rico.

My friend Pepe and I came up with a baseball type game that we called ‘chapitas’ (a spanish diminutive for bottle caps). Using caps for baseballs and a broom stick for a bat (above picture) we would spend hours pitching and hitting in front of our homes.

We would go to the neighborhood baseball field and looked for bottle caps of all kinds. Then, back at home, we would take turns pitching the caps (teeth down) and hitting them. For the batter, the caps looked like they would slowly dance through the air like knuckleballs do.

Did we swing and strike out a lot, you wonder? Yes! But we also hit the garbage out of a lot of them. We would hit line drives, pop flies; some caps would go sailing far into the roofs of the homes across the street and beyond into their backyards (those were considered home runs).

By the way, we did play a lot of regular baseball but ‘chapitas’ challenged our accuracy.

I’m writing this blog for no other reason than to challenge you (and myself) to remain skillfully accurate in the pursuit of your hopes and dreams.

We have a tendency to get careless and even indifferent about what we once were passionate about: career, marriage, a dream, a goal, retirement, traveling, making a difference in your society, and many others.

Boredom is often a companion of routine and indifference of a long stretch of time. Stay sharp and focused!

Allow me to borrow some ideas from my ‘chapitas’ game to challenge you to stay accurate about where you are heading and how to get there.

One thing to do is keep your target always in front of you. When playing bottle caps we couldn’t take our eyes off those spinning suckers otherwise we’d lose them in flight.

We Christians have our eyes fixed on meeting the Lord one day and living in the incredible heaven He has prepared for us. We don’t lose sight of that. The apostle Paul wrote,

“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” (Colossians 3:2 NIV)

At the same time, we want to keep our aim on where we are today and where we’re heading, our dreams, goals, and aspirations. The wise man wrote,

“Share your plans with the Lord, and you will succeed.”  (Proverbs 16:3 CEV)

Sharing involves thinking and communicating. Keep your dreams and hopes alive and ever present in your mind and on your tongue. Talk about them with the Lord and with your loved ones.

Also, get creative. That’s what ‘chapitas’ was all about, a new twist to an old game (baseball). There’s something exciting about newness. If you’re tired of the same old same old do what you do in a little different way next time. It may revitalize you. You’re still working towards your desired end but with a new spring in your step.

One more thing, execute. If all I did was swing the broom stick and never hit the cap Pepe hurled at me I would have given up fast. But the feeling of hitting and seeing the little cap zoom past my friend’s head was exhilarating and almost habit forming. I wanted to hit more and more of them.

Execute! Hit (meet/reach) those short term goals to help you keep moving forward. Accuracy is essential for reaching your amazing life destiny.

What’s your thought? Please leave me a comment.