YOUR B.H.A.G.

                                      BIG-HAIRY-AUDACIOUS-GOAL

                                             By Coach Lorne McAlister

 

"How Bad Do You Want It" was recorded by Tim McGraw on his "Live Like You Were Dying" project.

I can’t get that song out of my head. I’ve been singing it all day.                                             

It might be the tune that wakes me up, tugs me out of bed and  sends me to the shower at some ridiculous hour in the morning. Maybe it’s a song from my commute or a blast from the past. For me it’s usually from the Hymns That Hurt Book or some Country and Western ditty that twangs around in my not so sub-conscious mind, exploding out of my lips as I head down the hall for my fourth cup of coffee.

So here’s a song that I think is worth some hummin’ and strummin’. It takes you to that purpose driven zone where you are being pulled forward by your passion and pushed forward by your magnificent obsession.  When you are ready to live your B.H.A.G. - BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL, that bug-her,  bug-him, of an idea that just won’t let go. It’s that positive possibility, the delicate, dynamic idea  that’s the last think to tip toe out of our brain at night and the first think to sneak back in the morning.

HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT

Jim Collins, Bill Luther

Been out here on this highway, breathin’ diesel smoke
Driving hard for hours, to make that Memphis show.
People always ask me: son what does it take,

To reach out and touch your dreams?

To them I always say:
Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire?
That burns you up inside.

 CHORUS
How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it?
Are you eatin’ sleepin’, dreamin’ with that one thing on your mind?
How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it?
Cause if you want it all you’ve got to lay it all out on the line.

 I get to make my living, doing what I love
Every night I give my heart and soul,
Sometimes that ain’t enough.
Brother if you’re like me, lookin’ down that road
Be careful of that wild wind son, sometimes it don’t let go.
Can you feel it? Can you taste it? Can you hear it?
Knocking at your door.

Download this lyric into your “I-soul”.  

Stop counting the cost and start paying the price.

“Cause if you want it all you’ve got to lay it all out on the line.”

Sometimes some kinds of humming can be of some kind of help.