Article of the Month August 10': The Beatitudes...
Cricket is deemed to be one of the most popular sports in the world. Only the best players are selected to represent their national team due to the significance of this game. However, often it so happens that a talented player arrives on the international arena and yet fails to justify his potential. The reason for this is that cricket, in addition to being a physical sport, is also a mental game. Here, every player finds him self at the disposal of circumstances and fate . In conjunction, they create an ambience of pressure. Under this pressure, even the best players can fail to demonstrate their abilities. For example, if a few wickets fall in quick succession, then even an excellent incoming batsman can get out simply due to the pressure of that situation.
For this reason, the cricketers entering the arena are instructed to stay positive. Being positive in cricket means that a player should demonstrate his abilities with out being affected by the circumstances. He should ignore the pressure situation and play each ball on its merit. He should defend the ball that deserves to be played defensively and hit the one that deserves an aggressive stroke. This remains the key to success in cricket.
The same positive attitude is the key to success in the arena of life. Each human being is endowed with a certain ability and potential however, at the same time, along with it there are many problems in life that create an ambience of pressure and tension in one's life. In these circumstances, if one was to focus solely on the difficulties, problems and pressures, one would never be able to achieve any major success in life. Major success only embraces that person who avails the available opportunities despite the tensions and pressures of the circumstances; that individual who keeps searching for opportunities and on getting one, utilises his true abilities and full potential.
Likewise, failure in any one innings of this life does not mean that one is a complete failure. Such a person should await the next innings and the next opportunity that life sends his way. Nature will surely give him that opportunity in accordance with its own laws. He should await that opportunity with out getting despondent and avail it to the best of his abilities when the opportunity arrives.
The arena of life is not so distinct from cricket, positive thinking and attitude guarantee success in both fields.
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