[Time-Management] Arise, awake and take charge!

 

11th April 2011

 

 `Sports do not build character. They reveal it'

John Wooden

Cricket is a good metaphor. In fact we can learn many life skills from sports. We should learn how to develop a killer instinct, we should learn how to focus on the winning strategy, we should learn the ability to handle failure, we should learn the ability to lead a highly disciplined personal life, and we should learn the ability and willingness to work very hard etc. from the sportsmen.

Let's assume that we are the batsman and wanting to score a century and that we want to hit every ball to the fence, either for a boundary or for a six. What will happen? There will be eleven players who want to stop the ball, and if possible, to make us commit a mistake so that we are out.

Our journey to our goal and ambition is also another cricket match and there are eleven `players' who will stop us from scoring a six or a four. They are:

  1. Laziness
  2. Procrastination
  3. Bad habits
  4. Lack of concentration
  5. Lack of training
  6. Negative attitudes
  7. Poor inter personal relationship
  8. Lack of self confidence
  9. Lack of requisite skills
  10. Lack of knowledge, and the `wicket keeper',
  11. Lack of passion and interest;

If we have to win the match, we have to beat these eleven players. They will try to slow down your `run rate'!

Think you are a Sachin Tendulkar or Dhoni and try to improve your game of `life cricket'!

N C Sridharan

www.thetimefoundation.com

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