“EVERY ONE – HUNDRETH OF A SECOND TOWARDSSUCCESS DEMANDS PREPARATION”.
ON THE SYRUPY MORNING OF 2008 AT BEIJING OLYMPICS, MILORD CAVIC CAME OUT OF THE READY ROOM IN THE BACK OF THE BEIJING AQUATICS CENTRE – BETTER KNOWN AS WATER CUBE – AND ON THE DECK FOR THE 100METRE BUTTERFLY. CAVIC WENT OUT FAST. FROM THE START, THROUGH THE 50m TURN, THROUGH THE THREE – QUARTER MARK, IT WAS CAVIC OUT AHEAD . AS HE APPROACHED THE WALL, PICKING UP HIS HEAD EVER SO SLIGHTLY AND GLIDING IN FOR THE FINAL TOUCH, HE REALIZED THAT HE HAS GOTTEN HIS LIFELONG GOAL AND WON THE GOLD MEDAL. BUT WHEN THE RESULTS WERE OUT; IT WAS NOT MILO CAVIC WHO WAS DECLRED THE WINNER. ITW AS MICHAEL PELHPS. THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIRTIMESWAS JUST ONE- HUNDREDTH OF A SECOND. IMAGINE IT: ONE – HUNDREDTH OF A SECOND – THE SLIMMEST MARGIN MEASURED IN THE OLYMPICS, SOMETHING AKIN TO A SINGLE FLAP OF A HUMMING BIRD’S WINGS – WAS PLENTY LONG ENOUGH TO ALTER THE HISTORY.
ALAS! HE WAS NOT ABLE TO GRAB GOLD. YOU KNOW WHY? NO DOUBT, HE PREPARED PRETTY WELL FOR EVERY ONE- HUNDREDTH OF SECOND EXCEPT THAT LAST ONE THAT HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE AND HE FAILED.
IT IS NOT ONLY ONE SUCH CASE, HISTORY IS REPLETE WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SUCH INCIDENTS, SINCE IT HAS BEEN STARTED TO RECORD; RANGING FROM NAPOLEAN BONAPARTEE’S DEFEAT IN THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO TO ALEXANDER’S DEFEAT AT THE BATTLE OF HYDAPASES AGAINST KING PORUS AND TO THE KNEELING DOWN OF JAPAN AGAINST AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR 2.
ALL THESE EVENTS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE LIVES PREVENTED THEM TO EMERGE OUT AS HEROS, THE WORLD SEIZER, THE SUPER POWER. THEY WERE PREETY WELL PREPARED IN EVERY ASPECT AND LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED EXCEPT THE MOMENTS THEY LOST.
THUS, SUCCESS DEMANDS PREPARATION AT EVERY STEP AND THE STEP YOU FAIL TO PREPARE, YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO BE FAILED.
LIFE IS EVEN MORE UNCERTAIN AND UNCLEAR THAN THOSE CHANGE MAKING MOMENTS OF BATTLES, GAMES, EVENTS AND SO ON.
DOLY PARTON HAVE VERY NICELY ENCASPULATED THE UNCERTAINITY OF LIFE AS ‘THE WAY I SEE IT, IF WANT THE RAINBOW, YOU GOTTA PUT UP WITH THE RAIN’.
LIFE OFFERS A PLETHORA OF WITH SURPRISE EXAMS AND A SURPRISE QUESTION PAPER WITH QUESTIONS OF CHALLENGES, UPS AND DOWNS, HIGHS AND LOWS, FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES, DEEDS AND MISDEEDS, HAPPINESS AND SADNESS, SELFINESS AND BENEVOLENCE, UNLIKE THE PRE-INFORMED EXAMS AND LIMITED SYLLABUS OF SCHOOLS. AND YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE MOST INTRESTING AND BIZZARE THING ABOUT THESE EXAMS , YOU HAVE TO ANSWER TO ALL THOSE QUESTIONS BY PREPARAING TO MAINTAIN A SHEER BALANCE BETWEEN ALL THE CONTRASTING SITUATIONS. AND IF YOU FAIL TO PREPARE YOUSELF FOR THAT THEN IT WILL TAKE LIFELONG EFFORT TOPASS THOSE EXAMS WIHOUT ASSURED RESULTS. JUST IMAGINE! HOW TEDIOUS AND TENTAIVE LIFE TURNS OUT – LIFE LONG STRUUGLES WITHOUT ASSURED RESULTS JUST BECAUSE YOU FAIL TO PREPARE. NO LESS THAN A HELL.
SUPPOSE, YOU ARE ON THE BOAT OF HAPPINESS SAILING BY CUTTING ACROSS THE WIDE AND VAST OCEAN OF GLOOMINESS. EVERYTHING IS GOING ON IT’S RIGHT PACE BUT SUDDENLY YOU FACE WITH THE EVER- HIGH RISING WAVES OF GLOOMINESS AND IN YOUR IGNORANCE OF EXTREME HAPPINESS, YOU LACK BALANCE AND BOAT TURNS UPSIDE DOWN, DROWING DOWN YOU IN NEVER ENDING TRAP OF SADNESS. THEN IT TAHES LIFE’S EFFORT TO COME BACK.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR EVERY MOMENT, EVERY CHALLENGE, BASICALLY PREPARE YOURSELF TO MAINTAIN A BALANCE THEN ONLY YOUR BOAT OF BLISS CAN TOUCH THE COAST.
AS, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, PREPARATON IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS.
HOW CAN WE PREPARE OURSELVES TO NEVER TO FAIL?
BY DEVELOPING THE AATITUDE AND CONCIOUSNESS FOR MAKING PREPARATIONS IS THE FIRST AND FOREMOST STEP.AS MOST PEOPLE HAVE THE WILL TO WIN, FEW HAVE THE WILL TO PREPARE TO WIN.
SECONDLY, WE SHOULD TRUST OURSELVES, SHOW FAITH, BELIEF AND CONFIDENCE IN OUR OWN ABILITIES, BY INCULCATING THE GUTS TO FACE THE MUSIC AND BY ENABLING OURSELVES TO UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF CIRCUSTANCES AND ACTING IN RIGHT DIRECTION AND AT RIGHT TIME WITH THE SPIRIT TO BOUNCE BACK IN UNFAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.
AND OF COURSE, PLANNING AND STATEGY PLAY A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN PREPARATION.
BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER, PREPARATION IS LIKE A SEED THAT TAKES TIME TO DEVELOP INTO TREE. IT’S NOT A DAY’S TASK BUT A LONG PROCESS.
VICTORY OR DEFEAT IS NOT DETERMINED AT THE MOMENT OF CRISIS, BUT RATHER IN THE LONG AND UNSPECTACULAR PERIOD OF PREPARATION.
SO,
LET’S PREPARE NEVER TO FAIL