Practising one kick a thousand times
View(s):- Rather than Practising a Thousand Kicks One Time
As a CEO, I get the opportunity to interview certain people and it makes me feel quite sad to see CV’s of people who have done a dozen of things, yet they have been unsuccessful in mastering and completing at least one of them. Your mind does not show much difference in comparison to your eyes. It cannot hold on in one place thus it runs everywhere seeking for pleasure every single minute. As he does so he starts many ventures and gives up on many at the same time. I still find it complicated to understand my mind, as sometimes I do things that I do not like to do and I do not do things I like to do. This is the reason the traditional statement “You are what you think” is becoming extremely debatable in today’s context.
People have read all the religious books and they are certainly aware of what needs to be done, yet they keep on doing things that are paradoxical to what they know is right. This is why taming your thoughts and mastering them are so crucial in order to live a victorious life. Once I spoke to a person who delivers food at the age of thirty-seven. After doing music and launching his own album, he had given up his music career as popularity did not rise overnight. Then he became a chef, yet gave up halfway and later he invested his money on becoming an inflight steward at Sri Lankan airlines, he failed that as well due to the lack of endurance. He could not master any of what he began. Today, he works for a food delivery company alongside the scattered dreams of his innocent mother who is so dear to our family.
Your mind in general will become stubborn the moment you attempt to expand to the next level, as your comfort zone is the place it prefers to reside. We human beings possess two types of steering wheels, the mouth and the mind. If both of them are managed powerfully, it can make a man victorious. Nevertheless, if it is managed poorly it can make a person’s life miserable. When your brain is accustomed to giving up, thereby it discourages the growth of endurance in your brain. Then, it will constantly practice a thousand kicks one time each rather than practicing one kick a thousand times. The world is greatly in need of people who have mastered their skills and it is full of people who are jack of all trades.
There are people who have many children and they believe that they are contributing towards the growth of their race. Undoubtedly it is a great achievement if you could cultivate ten different plots simultaneously with the available resources, provided that all of them bear fruits in abundance. But it will be futile if you are unable to focus on the development of all of them. Having ten children would be of no use if nine of them have gone astray being toxic to the society. The focus of the majority of people are also alike, they strive to do everything believing that doing so would be beneficial to them.
There are people who go out for dinner with their loved ones and chat with their friends during the same time. Both the activities do not receive the supreme attention they ought to receive, as his energy and focus are diverted to both the tasks. There is another category of people who boast that they are good at multitasking, as they can eat, listen to music, read a book and go on the train all at the same time. I am certain that if these were done solely, the maximum pleasure of each task will be greatly felt. If I tell you to watch four different TV channels at the same time, you would say that I am insane, that is exactly what many people are doing. The signal of pleasure your brain transmits will be pure and complete when it is transmitted individually.
Nobody would be interested in reading a book whilst making love to his wife, neither the reading nor making love will receive the fullest attention they ought to have. A man who is driving safely and kissing his girlfriend at the same time does not give the kiss the fullest attention it deserves. This is the reason I say multitasking is ineffective unless it is done in survival modes.
‘Focus’ and ‘Distraction’ envy each other, they will continue to battle with each other until the very last day of your life on earth. Many people feed what they ought to be starving and they starve what they ought to be feeding. Being distracted by all the pleasures that surround you will make you a beggar with few coins of pleasure. Therefore, starve your distractions from their roots and continue to feed what you focus on. Keep on mastering your skills as the world is constantly lifting its bars of expectation. That is why today nobody is interested in purchasing a Walkman or a Betamax cassette tape. What was once the fastest speed recorded by Carl Lewis became obsolete the moment Usain Bolt defined what the fastest speed is.
The expectations of the world would always rise thus, you will always need to raise your maturity bar. Your energy and focus are like the amount of fertiliser a farmer possesses. If he has one hundred kilograms of fertiliser that is sufficient for one acre of land and he decides to use them on hundred acres, not only would he receive an insufficient amount of crops from the new ninety acres but he would also lose the harvest of his primary business which was ten acres. This is what many people are doing in today’s world. Instead of mastering their major skill, they keep running crazily to do ten other things ending up futile in all eleven avenues.
Opportunities come with a lifespan and they sure do expire fast. If you miss out on grabbing the opportunity at the right time and giving it the focus and commitment it requires, you will be unable to reap the potential harvest that the opportunity was bound to produce. While I was working at a famous company in Sri Lanka I witnessed many managers leaving that organisation stating that the job pressure was too much. As for me, I believed that the pressure will mould me towards greatness as I will not grow in the absence of pressure. After six years, I was recognised as one of the best and creative leaders in the industry as I mastered the skill amidst pressure. The outcome of your life is based on what you plant and nurture on the inside of your brain. Recently, I had an experience of getting the opportunity to speak to a person who left that organisation and is now wandering without a stable job
When you apply for a vacancy of a Software Engineer, you cannot say that you have completed an HR Diploma, an accountancy course, a sales management diploma or a tourism diploma. Six fully completed chairs each with four legs are far more valuable than twelve incomplete chairs with only three legs each. Greatness is more powerful than Mediocrity, as you cannot afford to have a whole heap of half cooked meat on your plate. It is better to have one boiled egg rather than a plate full of undercooked meat. Your focus should be on thriving for greatness and not towards a life of mediocrity where you will neither be hot nor cold. Rough roads create opportunities for people with endurance thus they keep moulding your endurance just as you would keep building your physical muscles. It is indeed beneficial to have one fruitful plant than a hundred barren, unfruitful trees
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