Go the Distance!

“Field of Dreams” is one of my favorite movies. What’s not to love – baseball, fatherhood, reconciliation, ghosts in the cornfield…

I know, I know. The movie has its problems. Shoeless Joe Jackson was from South Carolina and batted lefty, so why would a right-handed actor with a New York accent play him? And, would a father and son really stop talking because the son dissed his dad’s baseball hero from more than 50 years ago?

Still, it gets me. Or, I get it.

For me, it’s the three messages Ray hears:

“If you build it, he will come.”

“Ease his pain.”

“Go the distance.”

Any big transformation starts with believing the future can be different from the present; that the past isn’t prologue or doomed to repeat itself.

But, just believing isn’t enough (remember Ray Kinsella looking out over his snow-covered ballfield?).

It takes action.

It takes solving problems.

What “pain” are you going to ease? Is it bringing efficiency to an outdated business process? Fulfilling your own dream of entrepreneurship? Recapturing your own professional spark and engagement?

Finally, it takes resilience. Nothing is going to keep you from your goal, from the future that you’re designing. You’ll deal with setbacks and the unexpected and come through this transformation successfully and powerfully.

So, what’s that little voice telling you to build?