When Babe Ruth was 19, Jack Dunn, owner and manager of the Baltimore Orioles (a Boston Red Sox minor league team at the time), recognized his talent and signed him to a contract. After only five months with that team, the Boston Red Sox purchased Babe’s contract, and he became a Major Leaguer still at the age of 19.

At that time, he has been a pitcher. This is the guy, who throws the ball, whereas the hitter tries to hit it - ideally in a way that none of the players can catch it. And he was a GOOD pitcher. In his first World Series game for Boston in 1916, Babe set a record that still stands today. He settled down to pitch 13 scoreless innings for the 2-1 win. The 14-inning gem stands as the longest complete game in World Series history.

At one point he made the decision to stop pitching and to focus on batting.

What a move!

Try to imagine: he was already good in what he was doing, a famous and successful pitcher, but something told him - or "he thought" -, he could do even better in batting. Something pushed him further.

So now he was a hitter and he took a lot of heat for his decision but stuck with it because he knew he had the motivation to be a GREAT batter and he could imagine it.

During a 22-year professional career, Babe Ruth cemented his name as the most prolific home run hitter of his time. He may no longer be the home run king, but his record .690 lifetime slugging percentage may never be topped!

Maybe the most famous moment in baseball history, and certainly of his career, came during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs: he slammed what is believed to be the longest home run ever hit out of Wrigley Field, directly above the spot where he had pointed.

At that point, he was GREAT in what he was doing. That's why he had such tremendous success. Often the difference between being good and being great is making adjustments that allow you to spend more of your time developing your greatest strengths.

You have to find what you really love to do and have the faith that you will be able to do it. Thus you will allow yourself to be the great person that you already are on another level.

Many people give up on the way to becoming great because of various reasons. Most believe, that becoming great must go easily and that on the right road, no doubt, no struggle, no failure appears. All crap! IT DOES NOT! That's why being GREAT is not for everyone.

There is something you have to pay for it, a pay price to action and you have to honestly ask yourself, if you are willing to do whatever it takes to realize your GREATness, your vision or dream. Becoming great or achieving great success, comes out of struggle, out of doing things wrong and accepting failure.

Napoleon Hill once said that "Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. Don't worry if you fail once" - as Martin Luther King jr. expressed it, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

It does not matter in what you want to be GREAT. Your intuition will lead you the way. It could start with being a GREAT person. From there, have the faith and courage to have a dream or vision and then go for it - no matter what it takes. BE a great person, DO your best and "act as if There are NO Limits to Your Abilities", as one of my business mentors says and you will HAVE made the transition from a good life to a GREAT life.

With that in mind, you can achieve everything. Everything is possible, just do it!

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