Football is in the air, the whole world is in South Africa with their team, coaches and fans, I also missed the world cup by chance. With various matches features. As a teacher I look for wisdom and opportunities in all event, when I watch the German machine crushing Australia team four zero, it really amazed me. Within ninety minutes given equal opportunities, eleven men each on a side of a dividing line. While will one side thrash the other so mercilessly. That got me thinking and I came up with five reasons why it is so.
1.
Ski Skill
2. Training
3. Coach
4. Opportunity
5. Time
This scenario daily playing out in our life and countries of the world, Why will two people living within the same economy, having the same education one is down, broke and totally grounded. While the other fellow is blossoming, having more than enough for himself and for the people around him.
A country with a population of more than one hundred and fifty million with abundance of natural resources could not afford to feed her population. Though with millions of arable land depend on another country without land and fewer people. It still boils down to the same thing:
SKILL
It is the ability to do thing well, it is gained through training which comes through repetition which is the mother of skill, it come in various form, technical, communication, people, leadership. It is required in all human endeavors. It is indispensable even in the most menial of all human work. It is skill that differentiates between the professional and artisan. It places a premium of our earning capabilities. A skilled cleaner is different from a raw cleaner.
We must strive to acquire the required skill of our craft and thereafter hone the skill daily until we become a master and grandmaster of what we do, be it football, be it teaching like I am doing here. Skills do not fall on people like the anointing neither are we born with skill. It is acquired through a long period of persistence training like all the countries train persistently for the world cup. Some have to relocate to some other nation that has the same weather condition like South Africa. They also get engaged in so many friendly matches to test their skill before the actual match. We must do everything humanly possible to get better on anything we do.
TRANING
When you listen to Bob Marley signing is classical song One love for two minutes fifty seconds you feel exhilarated behind those small minutes are many hours of training, in the night, morning and afternoon. Talent they say is not enough, it is training that turn skills into treasure. It is goals scored during training that get scored in life matches, it is the corner kick, practiced in training that gets converted during matched.
In all of us are bone and muscle, but some of us cannot play any football not because we are incapable but our bodies has not being subjected to enough training that can sustain us as a football star. In all we do, we must make room for training and it must be daily, lest we allow what we have acquired slip out of our hand.
Training brings out the best in people, often time when we confront a challenge and fail, it is not that the opponent is too tough but our training is not enough to match the dexterity of the opponent. We must drill ourselves until we become the best at whatever we do, we must come on top and become the grandmaster and guru of our vocation be it career or business. We must seek daily improvement and light on our job.
COACH
No team can excel without a coach, a coach is somebody who has seen it all, an ex international who know the in and out of the business, be it sport, business, teaching, cleaning, success, prosperity or anything we are driving at. A good coach has seen it all. And he can instruct about the pit fall, what to do what not to do, tactic, ability to read the market and the matches ability to determine the slightest movement of the market, he must be dynamic. A coach must be at the top of his profession. We often erroneously believe that it is only sport that need coaches to come out at best, friend we have leaved in that error for long.
To do well in any field of endeavor require the service of a good coach. We all need mentor or else we will continue to grope in darkness. A coach will cut our learning curve by fifty percent; a coach will save you time and money. He will tell you what work instead of trials and error. You need a good coach to make it in life. If you cannot afford one, select one and buy into their instruction inform of books, tapes and consult them in your mind through questioning. Ask yourself what will my coach will say on this? listen to your mind you will get an answer.
OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity are period when preparation meet with chance, we cried often he wasted the chance that is opportunity and so many of them are wasted because there are no adequate preparation. We imagine if it is Rolnado that got that chance he will score the goal. Why do we think like that, what is the difference between him and our player, it is not farfetched it is what we have being discussing it is skill, it is training, it is the coach. We must be prepared like the Scouting motto for our opportunity, we must utilize our opportunity when they come or else we miss them forever. If we do not see opportunity on our way we can create it as one adage says We will either find way or create one.
TIME
Remember it is just ninety minute with a little extra time any goal that is not scored within that period is gone forever you cannot go back again and scored after the final blow of the whistle. After the cotton of the day is drawn you cannot go back to yesterday and scored the goal again. Friends Nigerian cannot go back to meet Greece again, In this world Cup tournament. Once the month is gone you cannot go back to January to work. What we have is the NOW. We must strive to make now the better. We must put all we are into our day. We must invest every second of our life so that we would not rise up with gray hair regretting our life. Remember the nursery rhyme that end with “what you have to do, do quick”. Let us also mind the details doing the little thing right all the time will also help our esteem don’t dream of conquering the world in a day, have a long time plan and work your plan consistently. Five year plan, ten year plan will go a long way to help you realize much more.
In conclusion let us continue to watch the world cup matches and continue to learn new things daily from the opportunities the world cup offers. Remember the next one will be in the next four year why not have a goal of attending the next one. It is possible
