To Win Some, you need to loose some - Waugh brothers...
My next
series of blogs is going to be from Prakash Iyer’s book - The Habit of Winning...!! mixed with some of my experience & humor... :)
With the IPL going on, I thought of relating it to Cricket...!!
To have
your child play cricket for the country is a dream come true for most of the parents,
to have your twins play for the country is way special. That's exactly how Mr
and Mrs. Waugh felt.
Steve made
his debut first in Australian cricket team. Parents looked forward to Mark
joining him too.
Ashes team
for the year was announced and Mark was selected. The Waugh family decided to
party. While partying Mrs.Waugh asked Steve; "Son, who did the selectors
drop to make way for Mark?"
Steve very
calmly replied - "ME"
Phew! Life
is like that, Good news comes with the bad. You win some. You loose some.
It reminds
me of K.V.Kamat (Sir), the then head honcho of ICICI bank, as he addressed a
gathering, he said "Work-Life balance is a nice ideal, but not something
he would recommend to young high-performance managers"
You need
to focus on work, slog, make an impact, sweat it out work harder to meet
business goals...& life will take care of itself.
But, if u
try and find the balance right at the start you would be a loser at work, not
much joy in life either.
Want to
climb the corporate ladder? Slog. Work long hours. Forget weekends. As success
sets in, you can discover fancy holiday spots, golf course and your daughters
dance debut. Waugh brothers proved the
same, after the famous debut of Mark, both brothers together went on to win lot
of matches/World cups for Australia.
But
imagine:
If their parents
would have insisted on both starting together?
It’s like:
We want
the best of appraisals AND leave when the clock strikes 6.00pm.
We want to
loose weight AND we want to have 2 bowls of Gajar ka halwa. (Carrot desert)
Bottom Line:
To Win
some, you need to Loose some. To get something, you have got to give up
something.
You must be ready to pay a price.
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