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“If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very
carefully.”

Cricket – A Winning Recipe

1. Positive Attitude.

Defensive minds are neither creative nor cooperative. Until and unless we only focus on nothing short of winning (and consider a DRAW as a DEFEAT) no planning and preparation, will give us the desired results.

2. Planning.

The team management in particular and players in general must be told that PLANS never fail, rather we fail to PLAN. And for planning, the first and foremost thing is the mind set, totally focused on goal achievement. In order to achieve the impossible, it is precisely imperative, to think the unthinkable.

3. Video Analysis.

All concerned must sit and watch strengths and weaknesses of South African as well as, Pakistani players. This will not only help in overcoming our weaknesses, but will also help in field settings, determining bowling line and length, knowing weakness of opponent players, against fast and spin bowling etc.

4. Infusion of Motivation.

Since, cricket is a mind game, a motivation specialist (NOT psychiatrist) must be attached with the team, and given the task to convert our players, from being simply dynamic persons to a DYNAMITE personality, so that every player must perform, to his peak ability. In my opinion, the best person in the country, for this job is Ms Andleeb Abbas.

5. Team Selection.

(a) The success of any project depends on the right selection of it’s team members. The enemy of the BEST is often the GOOD. In fact, now it is said that the only difference between winning and losing organizations is the quality of it’s people, which includes their character, belief, habits, personal motivation and abilities.

(b) We should not only select players on merit or past performances but, one or two batsmen and bowlers from domestic circuit should also be selected by just anticipating, that given a chance, they can be stars overnight with their sheer fearlessness and big game temperament. Just like as a shrewd jeweler, we should pick a diamond from the rubbles.

(c) Similarly, our wicket keepers on show till now have been just average players. We must find some really outstanding wicket keeper, for which the legend Mr. Wasim Bari should be assigned the task, to find out the person who can be categorized as find of the tour.

6.Team Management.

The team management must be told that business as usual, will not deliver in this most tough series. They should know that management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
professor, author

Avoid Unfriendly Office Competition

There’s one in every office: a hypercompetitive colleague who stops at nothing to get every advantage over his peers. It’s tempting to try to one-up him and put him in his place, but that’s only likely to fuel his ambition further. Instead, don’t participate in the rivalry. Continue to do your best work and expect to be recognized for it. React coolly to any criticism he hurls your way. If he says your report was subpar, for example, don’t take the bait. Ask dispassionately, “What makes you say so?” Invite others to offer their opinion, especially if you know they’ll back you up. If you don’t engage with the competition, it will soon become clear to others that he has some kind of agenda.

Adapted from the HBR Guide to Office Politics.

“The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a
mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that
you have being busy being miserable.”

— Philip DeFranco

“The only people who see the whole picture, are the ones who step outside the frame.

To Stay Stress Free, Mind Your Own Business.

It is not your business to love me, it is mine.
-Byron Katie

One of Byron Katie’s teachings is that in order to stay stress free, we need to stay in our own business. She recognizes that there are only three types of businesses in this universe:
Other’s Business
God’s Business
My Business
Katie observes that most of the stress that we create in our mind is due to mentally doing other people’s business.

Example thoughts of being in “Other’s business”
You need to get a job
I want you to be happy
You should be on time
You need to take better care of yourself
John does not listen to me
Julie did not smile at me
My husband should love me more
My children do not care for me enough
My employer should appreciate me
My mother should understand me
People should be kinder to me
You will see that in all the above examples, the person thinking these thoughts is linking her well being to something someone else should do and should not do, which obviously is not in her control. It is thus the other person’s business to do or not do what they need to do, not ours.

Example thoughts of being in “God’s business”
I’m worried about the possible earthquake in california
I fear that the river will get flooded next year
I fear that that the world will end in 2012
When will it rain this season?
When will I die?

By Byron Katie’s definition, anything that cannot be done by us or others is God’s business. You will see that the circumstances in the thoughts above are outside the control of human beings and is thus God’s business.

If we do not waste our energy in minding other people’s business or God’s business, we can be much more focused on minding our own business, and thus be relatively stress free.

Examples of staying in “My business”
Loving myself
Taking care of my health
Maintaining peace in my mind
Doing what is right for my heart
Giving my 100% in whatever I take up
Taking full responsibility for my life without resorting to blame
Thus the next time we feel stress, the best thing to do is to take a look at whose business we are being in. Chances are that we are doing other’s business or God’s business. We can then laugh at it, let go, and get back to our own business – which is really doing the right thing for ourselves, instead of dwelling on external circumstances that we have no control over and becoming miserable.

Byron Katie

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Not the gun boat diplomacy but the drone attack strategy..!

Since, the US is not heeding to the protests of the Pakistani government against the drone attacks; and it had the audacity to launch another drone attack exactly on the occasion of the departure of the PM, on his visit to China; it is high time that Pakistani government must shift gears from the mere verbal protests to some tangible political and diplomatic assertive actions.

It is all the more necessary, in view of the NEW policy of use of the drones by the US, as a weapon of brow beating the new Pakistani government, by launching drone attacks at specific timings.

Now, there should be no doubt that Pakistan is being subjected to not to the gun boat diplomacy, but drone attack strategy.