# @winwithmatlin on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BtKSRnDDp3e
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19741612-winwithmatlin-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/fc14f303be.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-01-28T02:01:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Brian Matlin | CO Injury Law 🦁 (@winwithmatlin) — https://gondola.cc/winwithmatlin

## Caption

What does this picture sequence have anything to do with you and your GOALS?

Have you ever thought about what we can learn from dogs?

What happens when you show a dog a tennis ball and bury it deep in the snow? The dog will get that ball.

He has his goal of getting that ball and will engage in RELENTLESS pursuit until the goal is actualized. Performing a medley of “sit” and “shake” and “speak” and “play dead” all before the owner even allows him the attempt to “go get it” . . . of which he will first have to dive nose deep into ice cold snow to actually retrieve the ball that was only inches from him in the first place

Many people today set goals and don’t realize the work that it takes to achieve them. They think the work will be easy and will be quick and they are not willing to put in the endless time and energy it takes to achieve whatever is worthwhile in life. They expect to achieve their goals after a few “shakes” and “sits.” Getting what you want and going where you want will take months at the gym, or  scanning papers/sweeping floors/going on coffee runs, or even YEARS spent developing the software it takes to finally make that one marketing software to finally get that first sale.

Whatever your goals are, you have to know that you will not get anywhere near achieving them if you aren’t willing to have the PATIENCE and DISCIPLINE to keep your “eye on the ball.” If you aren’t RESILIENT enough to overcome all the obstacles that WILL come your way, you WILL NOT make it.

Go watch a dog fetch a ball, no matter how tired he is, he won’t stop running until that ball is his.

Go get your ball.

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