Motivational and Time Management Practice

Swami Vivekananda said Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. We never understand these things until we experience them. We will have to see and feel them for ourselves. Simply listening to explanations and theories will not do.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. What makes Sachin Tendulkar or Tiger Woods or Muhammad Ali or Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others., so awesomely, amazingly, world-class excellent. It is through practice, practice and practice. The Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, his coach Shri Ramakant Achrekar would put a one-rupee coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Tendulkar considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions. Tiger Woods was introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father. Before turning seven, Tiger Woods won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition. Both father and son attribute Tiger Woods success not to talent but to hard work and deliberate practice. Muhammad Ali was known for exclaiming, "I am the greatest!" How was this possible? It was his deliberate practice. I have mentioned about his practice in earlier article. He was once asked how many sit ups did he do daily to which Ali said that I dont count my sit ups. I only start them counting when it stars hurting, when I start feeling the pain. That is when it really matters No Practice-No Pain-No Gain. Ali is the only boxer to win the heavyweight title three times. He was even the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title (a record which was later broken by Mike Tyson). Shiv Khera, in his book You Can Win has cited an example of a violinist which I feel would summarize the points which are mentioned above. Fritz Kreisler, the great violinist, was once asked, "How do you play so well? Are you lucky?" He replied, "It is practice. If I don't practice for a month, the audience can tell the difference. If I don't

practice for a week, my wife can tell the difference. If I don't practice for a day, I can tell the difference Needless to say the amount of practice Milkha Singh put in though Farhan Akhtar has tried to bring out the real life of Milkha Singh in the Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Well, we saw the practice but we need to know what else. Milkha Singh is the only Indian Male Athlete to win an individual athletics gold medal at Commonwealth games. We might have seen in the movie that he lost in 1960 Olympic Games. Even though he lost in 1960 Olympic Games 4th place time of 45.73 became Indias National Record for almost 40 years. Attitude Most of the times there are talks around the word attitude. We find it written of T shirts, paper pads calendars etc. and we often strive to find out what attitude is. When we are with our friends doesnt some of the friend in the group mention Arrre yaar.Usko dekho hokya attitude haisahi attitude hai boss. Then most of the time we think that maybe he is lucky; maybe he is talented, so he people say that Kya Attitude hai. Talent vs Attitude Harsha Bhogle, cricket commentator and journalist while delivering a lecture at IIM Ahmedabad mentioned that work ethics and attitude counts far more that talent. He had cited examples mentioning that major part of excellence has nothing to do with talent. He mentioned that in course of time, ability or talent is the most useless virtue to possess. Its what you do with your talent that matters. Beyond a point, it is attitude that counts more than talent because talent breeds an ego. Talent never solves problems beyond a point. Harsha cited the example of young cricketer extremely talented, who the moment faced a road block did not know what to do. They never had to struggled to succeed. They used their talent to succeed. When India was playing a test match against West Indies in 1994, Courtney Walsh bounced to Vinod Kambli who was then 22 years old then. After Walsh bounced to him, he did not know how to play the bouncing ball and most strikingly he did not play a test match after that. He played his last test match in 1994 when he was 22 years old. It was only that Talent had solved the problems which led to bigger problem. In the Australian Army when they are building an elite core team, they look at the career track record of the people who come for joining the Army. During the recruitment, they do not pick people who have never failed because they say that in case if this mans experience is failure will he know what will he do or will he know what he needs to do. Instead they pick people who have failed and bounced back. And that is where your attitude comes from i.e. Failing and Bouncing Back.

It is our attitude towards life & work that makes our life 100% I would mention something which we keep on reading either in sms or in mails. We keep on reading and it is mentioned that if we arrange all the alphabets by given them numbers according to their position then Skills make up 82, Knowledge makes up 96, Hard Work accounts 98 but Attitude counts to 100. So we see that it is our attitude towards life & work that makes our life 100%. Tendulkar: Talent or work ethics, attitude and passion to perform We have been dazzled by talent a great deal. Tendulkar is a prime example where most often you hear people say that Tendulkar means Talent. But its not so, as a 14 year old kid, Tendulkar played 55 games without a break. Tendulkar practiced for 2 hrs. then played a game, practiced for 2 hrs. and then fall asleep on the dining table and that he did for 55 days continuously. Tendulkar was not born as a cricketer. It was not written that he would be scoring 100 100s. It is his work ethics, attitude and passion to perform which made Tendulkar hold the title "God of Cricket" among his fans.

The example of sports has been taken to make the concepts of developing self motivation through Practice and developing right attitude clearer. This can be applied to any field wherever you are. If you are preparing for Civil Services or anything else just experiment the concept of practice in studies and just see what does this article tries to bring out. You must practice, and see whether these things happen or not. Just as you would take up any other science, exactly in the same manner you should take up this science for study (Swami Vivekanada).
Ramanjeet Gupta