Have you ever played Galaga (the video game)?
I LOVE that game. Haven’t played in years.
This weekend, I went to a resort in the Smoky Mountains that had the vintage game Galaga! YAY! I was so happy.
I started playing. I was having a blast. Playing and playing and then…something interesting happened.
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I started approaching the HIGH SCORE! YAY! I was going to beat that high score. WOW! The first time EVER I was going to be on the screen for being the HIGH SCORE.
So, what did I do? I started playing the game with an eye on the score…and GUESS WHAT!
GAME OVER at 10 POINTS UNDER the high score. Aaaaargh!
Isn’t that just how it goes? You are playing like a winner and THEN you look at the score and GAME OVER.
I played another game after that and came nowhere near my first score. Then, I just turned the game off.
The lesson? Keep your eye on playing. Let the score INFORM you, but keep your eye on the game.
When I am being my best and doing everything I know to make my customer happy, game on! When I calculate against what someone else has done or the “score” I am hoping to achieve…it comes to a DEAD STOP!
Love the game UP!
The Irreverent Sales Girl
There’s got to be a balance. You’ve gotta know the score, but when the score overshadows everything else … oh no!
One reason I deleted my Klout account was I started blogging, commenting and tweeting like water gushing from a fire hydrant … spraying out crap just to get my Klout score higher. That score was like a mirror that was feeding narcissism. No thanks.
Time to be back in the game.