{"id":179,"date":"2009-03-13T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:29:42","slug":"what-is-your-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/what-is-your-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Your Gift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Tiger Woods play golf in person at the World Golf Championships here at Doral. When he birdied the 15th hole, I was about 20 feet away from the greens.<\/p>\n<p>Then I (along with what seemed all of Miami) followed him to the 14th tee. When he walked up to the tee box, I was so close to him that I literally could have patted him on the back. As the fans shouted their well wishes (&#8220;Welcome Back Tiger, &#8220;Put It In the hole&#8221; and &#8220;You da man&#8221;), I couldn&#8217;t help but feel a funny sense of divinity out there.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not saying that Tiger Woods is God. (Or Is he?) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I asked myself the question, what is it about Tiger that brings joy to so many people?<\/p>\n<p>This thought stuck with me as I watched him hit the ball straighter and 50 yards past the other two people in his group.<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me.. &#8220;He&#8217;s sharing his gift with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So from a few hours of watching a few ordinary men do some extraordinary things on the golf course I found some inspirational mojo.<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired and there lies the divinity in it all.<\/p>\n<p>When we share our gifts with each other, no matter how large or small, we bring joy and inspiration to the world.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to experiencing your gift one day.<\/p>\n<p>Much Chi&#8230;<br \/>\nT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Tiger Woods play golf in person at the World Golf Championships here at Doral. When he birdied the 15th hole, I was about 20 feet away from the greens. Then I (along with what seemed all of Miami) followed him to the 14th tee. When he walked up to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pearls-of-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}