TESSY WRITES ON 'YOU CAN CREATE YOUR FUTURE'

 

TESSY REFLECTS ON 'YOU CAN CREATE YOUR FUTURE'

A little bit of this and and a little bit of that.... The team selection happened at the end of June or probably early July.... How does a team gel together before a tournament? How do you plan? How do you gauge your strengths and weakness? How can you work on the weakness of the opponents and how to restrict their strengths? All this needs time and a team that has been together for some time... 

A simple example is how Argentina came back in the 79th minute... Team work needs time and planning... I would like to tell Aaron all this, but I am positive that you will be able to pass it on to him better.... 

I was sharing an incident with Vinaya about my school days with St. Joseph's Boys Hr. Sec. School, Coonoor... We had a great football culture in the school... I played in the defense (full back) and for one match, I was asked to play half back (midfield) and this decision was taken a day before the match... The idea was to stop the opposing team captain who was very fast and I was the 100 mts champ... so there came in the planning part and then the rest of the team understanding the sudden change of plan, worked accordingly... We won that match 3-0.

Now Aaron and his friends need to come back and practice together and start to understand the chemistry of team bonding, and this only will help them form a formidable team and in the process, a team to beat! 

I replied:

Thank you for the wonderful impassionate analysis

And the creative imaginative tackle.

Happy it drew the real sportsman Tessy out into the open.

YOU CAN CREATE YOUR FUTURE

Aaron is our grandson.

Along with his Appa, he visits us on Sundays. They stay with Dr.Rajan Varghese, his maternal grandfather at Paruthippara.

We are happy to have him whenever he presents himself. 

He told us on his visit on the last Sunday of June, that he had to attend the selection trials for the 

nder 17 Basketball Team of his School (St.Thomas Residential School), Mukkola,Trivandrum, the following week. Later we learned he had been selected as a member of the School's Basketball team - under 17. Anoop who came to our residence on Tuesday told us he was on leave on Wednesday for taking Aaron to Loyola School to participate in a Basketball Tournament there. 

Anoop phoned us after the game. St.Thomas had badly lost to Lecole Chempaka. He said they were the better team. But Aaron was devastated as well as depressed on his poor performance.  They had taken him out to Dominos to lift up his spirits.

Here is the message I had sent  to Anoop and Reshma for Aaron. They are Aaron's parents.

Please tell Aaron that losing 33 - 3 to a much better opponent is not something to cry about.

What he has to or his team has to do is, do a SWOT  analysis. It opens up reform.

One thing is certain. They cannot fall any farther than this. They can only improve from there.

If we care to learn from Roger Federer or Virat Kohli or Lionel Messi or many other super heroes , we can see they go back to basics after a scintillating performance or a rout.

They spend hours together practicing - their shots, kicks or serves.

When we are enthralled by those curving grounded or flying shots from Messi you can be certain he has practiced hours together over them. 

When we see Federer's aces chipping the inner edge of the baseline, it is not a magic in operation, but the result of painstaking practice over hours and hours.

And the ease with which  Magic Jordan find the hoop need not astound us. It is his persevering practice that is edging him on.

To put it in a nutshell, efffort+effort=excellence

Speaking on failure, remember,  failures are our finest teachers. Successes  do take us forth. But they don't teach like failures do. Failures make us introspect. Then refine. Then surge ahead with a new found vigour.

It is said, 'fail and fail to win.'

Go back to the drawing board and plan your strategy to make 33-3, 33-66

This is true everywhere. 

There is no easy way out. You will have to sweat it out away from public glare.

Victory beckons you. 

You can create your future.