If you happen to be one of the 20 million viewers who watched Deal or No Deal tonight on television, then you are about to receive some extra information you may not know about.
I read in the Macon Telegraph a few days ago that a Macon Georgia man would be appearing on the show. It really got my attention when I read that the contestant would be General Hugh Neisler. Although Hugh and his family live in Macon, he actually grew up in the Reynolds area where I came from . I’ve known him pretty much all my life.
I watched the show (which I had never seen before) on Sunday night from home. He didn’t get finished with his game and it was carried over tonight. I had to go on the internet after the show last night to read the rules to figure out what in the heck was happening on the show.
Tonight I was eating in a Smokey Bones restaurant in Peachtree City, GA and realized it was 8:00PM. There were TV’s all over the restaurant but none were on NBC which carries Deal or No Deal. I had to get the waiter to get the manager to re-program their televisions so we could watch the show. This restaurant even has little speakers on the table so you can listen to whichever TV you are watching. In no time, we had Deal or No Deal going on in the restaurant. People throughout the restaurant were pulling for my hometown friend.
If you have watched this show before you will understand this. If not you won’t. But it turned out that Hugh had the $1 Million in his briefcase which Is very unusual in this game. He actually walked away with $99,000 but after he played it out after cashing in he realized he would have won a million if he had stayed with it.
I cannot blame him for taking the $99,000. I would have probably done the same thing he did.
I was thinking during that game of a principle that I talk about to a lot of folks. If you choose to be a winner, you cannot be afraid to lose. He won the $99,000. After Uncle Sam gets his share it won’t take him long to spend that money if he so chooses. But If he had won the million, it would have changed his life forever.
All he had to do was keep playing.
Of course he could not be sure the million dollars was in that briefcase. It’s easy for us to say that now looking back. He didn’t have that luxury. But the fact remains, he was on the way to winning it all. But he stopped before he got there.
I wonder if one day when our life is over we will be able to look back from above and see where we could have had it all but we stopped before we got there. Sure makes you wonder.
And that thought sure makes you want to keep pressing on.
2 comments:
Mr Goddard,
Don't forget we'll also get the chance to look back and see all those times when we say "Ah! If only I had quit while I was ahead."
There is a fine balance between being risky and foolhardy, cautious and timid. We just have to make our choices as they come along, use our instincts, learn from our experiences, and trust the Lord.
Plus, it wouldn't be any fun to know how everything will come out ahead of time.
You make a great point and you are right. But I think it is much easier to be cautious and timid than it is to relentlessly go for it and get out of our comfort zone. I strongly believe that the only way someone can be a winner is to get to the point where he/she is not afraid to lose. Thanks for your comments.
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