Finish Strong

“After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.” -last sentence of A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.” -last sentence of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

“Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” -last sentence of The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

So maybe you’re Act One was just okay.

And Act Two was a disaster.

But hey, you still got time, you can give a dazzling Act Three.

Great teams, athletes and artists all share this in common:

They know how to finish strong.

Run what’s left of the race.

Go all out.

Give it everything you got.

Finish strong.

P.S. – Talk about a closing kick.