Sheriff Buford T. Justice & Goals
Recently during a cold and rainy Saturday afternoon while working, I turned the T.V. on for background noise. Since I was tired of my music library, my thought process was that the T.V could provide something to tune out while I worked. See mom, I still do that; it worked in high school and it works now! Well, for the most part; read on to see what I mean.
After a couple of minutes of bouncing around on various channels, I settled on Smokey & The Bandit on one of the movie channels. Talk about a classic movie! Well, classic for my generation, not classic like Gone With The Wind or something of that nature. Other than watching a few scenes, I mostly worked while reciting famous lines from memory; most of them compliments of Jackie Gleason's character, Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Also laughed at myself for remembering a lot of the lines.
Watching and listening to the movie sparked thoughts of goals and how Sheriff Justice was a master at goal setting and goal pursuit, even if he never reached his goal; catching Smokey.
Think about it:
- He had one single goal in mind; catching and arresting Smokey.
- Nothing kept him from pursuing his goal; not being out of his legal jurisdiction (comfort zone); not dealing with unexpected circumstances like losing the top of his car (roadblocks), nor having his not so smart son with him (dealing with others).
- He never lost focus of his goal, catching Smokey; not matter what happened along the way or what roadblocks he encountered.
How may times do we stop pursuing a goal because we are out of our comfort zone, we have roadblocks or we struggle with others?
Those are my thoughts on how a hilarious movie character reminded us that we need to keep pursuing goals, no matter what. Your thoughts?
