We all shoot, we all score

I'm not a huge video game person. Oh, I certainly like my video poker, as well as Reversi and Tetris, but I'm not into Halo and violent games, and I've only played on a Wi a couple of times.

But here's some more about Tetris. I've played it off and on for a number of years, and now I play an online version a couple times a week. I've tried different levels, and never quite get too far, usually only about 10,000 points or so. I've nudged up to 17,000 or 18,000 a few times, but could not get past 20,000.

Until a couple weeks ago. I find it best to not look at my score as I play, as it just depresses me and takes my attention away from those rapidly falling myriad shapes. So when that game finally ended and I saw that I was about 23,000 points, I was very surprised, as I never thought I would get there.

Aren't we all like that? Assuming we will never get somewhere, so what's the point of trying? It's like making new year's resolutions. We expect to eventually fail, to not keep up on our exercise programs, or we fall short of being able to document our well-intentioned efforts to be a better person, or to pray more, so we don't even try. What's better than a built-in excuse to anticipate and justify our future failure?

I remember Anthony Robbins commenting how people overestimate what they can get done in a short period of time, but underestimate what they can accoplish over a longer period of time.

Just like me and Tetris.

And maybe just like you and ???