Category: Everything else

Disclaimer: If you are not a sport lover, you may not enjoy it as much.. feel free to comment with questions though!

Watching Cristiano Ronaldo in full cry on a football field is quite a sight. He torments defenders with his pace, trickery and aerial strength. Watching Messi is a different experience altogther – we still have pace, trickery but also witness genuine footballing intelligence.

If we had to think of 2 similar figures in tennis, it would be Nadal and Federer. Nadal taking the Ronaldo spot, while Federer taking the Messi..

While I’ve always been a supporter of Ronaldo(he’s ex-Man Utd after all and was made at Carrington), I know that Messi will probably stand the test of time and probably have a longer career than Ronaldo. It’s not because of his arrogance or any such thing, it is just because Ronaldo is a born athlete, Messi is a born football player. And that makes all the difference in the world..

The day will arrive when Ronaldo is 30 and will not be able to summon that lethal pace, while Messi’s intelligence would still be intact. It’s similar with Nadal.. Every fan of Federer has great respect for the man, his fighting spirit is second to none. The day will soon arrive when Nadal won’t be able to summon that dogged determination.. he can’t be a human express train for ever. The cracks are showing..

While in the case of Federer, he would have his lows – he is already no longer invincible, but on his day, he would still be unplayable thanks to his class.

There would be examples like this in every sport. I’m still looking for a life’s lesson – what I’ve understood is that, maybe when we choose a way of life, it should not be something we can just pull off when we are young – there needs to be a balance of short term and long term thinking..

for eg: we could make lots of money with a job that takes 20 hours of our life.. but is it worth being burnt out?

Where can you and I be ‘class’, ageless and timeless..?

Just as an additional note as a Man Utd and Alex Ferguson fan: For all those critics of Dimitar Berbatov of Man Utd, he would still play his languid stylish game when he is 35.. and that is why, at 27, he was worth every one of those millions paid.. :)

Good Morning.. have a nice day! :)

Attitude and positivity often moves in spirals..

When good things happen, they keep spiralling up till a point where we feel we can practically achieve anything. Then, all of a sudden, life hits back and shows us who’s boss and we fall a peg or two. This is generally combined with similar circumstances and suddenly we are staring at the ground all over again..

(Also, reflective of the economy as stocks and shares are based on feeling as well..)

The difference in the attitude of winners is that while there are phases of ‘lows’ per se, they do not let their confidence spiral all the way to the bottom.. Basically, the higher the lowest point of the spiral, the better we are. That’s why Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo in football, Jordan’s and Bryant’s of basketball are where they are.. incredible self belief in picking themselves up.

This fluctuation happens even more so in our teenage when we are susceptible to emotions.. and I guess I’m finding myself in a phase of growing up where I’m learning not to get too high on the highs(even though it is tempting when I feel like I am king of the world.. haha) because I am going to get hit – that’s a fact.. atleast it’ll make the fall softer and the rise easier..

Important to have a base which is right in the middle.. and that base, in my understanding and interpretation, comes from a strong value system..

Again, it’s just a viewpoint.

Enjoying the small joys of university life..

There’s only 3 months left of it..

:D

Advice from Rafiki – the wise baboon.. :)

Have a great day! :)

you never ‘are’ either, are you..

Most of it is the mind playing games.. :)

Again Mark Twain.. :D

Have a great day and week! :)

Check out – http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3570&tag=nl.e713

As Henry Ford II said, “never complain, never explain.” This advice is just as useful as when he first uttered it decades ago. In a world of reality television, Facebook, and blogging, people seem to think it is useful to share every thought and life detail with the world. Bad idea.

First of all, this “sharing” encourages all the amateur psychoanalysis that goes on anyway but needs material to feed on. Second, most of those who want an “explanation” from people like Tiger really don’t deserve one. Fans and even corporate sponsors are not close personal friends and family. Woods needs to explain himself only to his spouse and his family, not to the public at large.

Useful..

http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=5022&tag=nl.e713

Give more money away. “Research shows it really doesn’t make people happy to spend money on themselves,” professor Michael Norton tells Harvard magazine. “It’s not how much you give, it’s that you give…. If you have an extra $20, it’s better to spend it on someone else than on yourself.” In a range of experiments, the researchers found that those who give to others —particularly those who give regularly — report higher levels of happiness.

Avoid regret; indulge occasionally. Yes, we should give more away, but don’t ignore your own desires. People can sometimes live too much for the future, argues professor, Anat Keinan. “We all know that people can be too impulsive and yield to temptation. Our argument is that people can also be too farsighted, or hyperopic. As a result, they have wistful regrets of missing out on life’s pleasures when they look back at how they spent their time.” Read her interview with HBS Working Knowledge.

Go for ‘just enough’. Maximization — striving to become the richest, the brightest, the most talented, the best looking — does not bring lasting happiness. We must also think about limits, professors Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson write in Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life.

“If life were lived in a fixed time frame, where success was measured only in the instant you hit the peak, maximized measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems worthwhile and lasting on all your success targets, you have to give up the standards of maximization.” Read a book excerpt.

I like these three principles, restated as:

Be happier by: using your resources to help others, living a life without regret, and embracing limits as a way to slow down and gauge our life’s progress.

and when you get old, the shoes get right but the feet are already wrong..

For all those who play sports, the importance of the right gear starting with the shoe can never be over-stated. :)

Better not to play a sport than to play with all the wrong equipment. As an old P.T.Teacher Mr.Samkutty from DAV in Chennai used to say, ‘it will seem all okay now when you do it(I was attempting to play shuttle/badminton on a wooden court barefeet), it’ll all come back to you in the form of pain when you are 40 years old!

And this is incremental, so if you are jogging at 40 with the wrong shoes, beware of trouble at 60.. ha ha! :D

So, let’s get the right shoes.. else, its always a case of penny wise, pound foolish!