"People who exhibit single - minded determination understand that it’s often not the fastest or the strongest one that wins the race — it’s the one that stays the course and goes the full distance," from Stefan Swanepoel's character Zachariah, in Surviving your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business and in Life. It's a little of the tortoise and the hare, isn't it? Surviving our Serengeti, meeting our challenge... it's about setting our sights on something and staying the course. It's about being tenacious and determined and making sure we get where we want to be. It's also about being smart and flexible, because the landscape of life and business is in a constant state of change.
I came across the post Surviving your Serengeti: An Active Rain Challange this morning and was immediately intrigued. I watched the video trailer embedded in the post and started taking notes. I couldn't figure out why www.serengettibook.com wouldn't get me to Stefan Swanepoel's book, Surviving the Serengeti. Then I realized the mis-spelling and decided at that moment that it was important to know if spaghetti was spelled the same as Serengeti, so I asked Google that question.
Google gave me the Urban Dictionary and a note that "spagheti isn't defined yet", but there is such a thing as "mom's spaghetti", and the definition goes something like this:
"To choke in a pressure situation. To fail to deliver on expectations when it becomes time to perform, often due to nervousness."
How close I came to failing to deliver. I remember more clearly than I wish the "drought" that nearly extinguished me personally and professionally. I remember when I decided I had to find the light again or die; I remember the meeting with that first unknown prospect and how I was nervous to the point of almost being sick; and I remember that that meeting was the day I began putting one foot in front of the other again. That was five years ago and it has been a slow, uphill climb, but this crocodile is no longer estivating. (Do you want to know what animal you are? Take the "What animal are you?" quiz.)
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