Courage
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Courage to me is like to convert weakness into ability, obstacles into the stepping stones and disaster into triumph. Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of fear.
- Navjyot Singh Siddhu, Former Cricketer, India
I was looking for videos of Navjyot Singh Siddhu's opinions about Sachin Tendulkar, the God of Cricket on YouTube. I found a video of his inspirational speech which he gave at Discon 2010 arranged by Rotary club of Bombay in Mumbai. He was talking about courage. In a video of around 48 minutes, he had given various examples of his cricket life which supported the topic. Wow, what a man with such amazing thoughts! He began the speech with first two lines which are the beginners of this article too.
Sometimes we are in a life or death situation. Not actually meant to the words, but it involves risk, may be smaller or bigger. Somehow, we are not ready to face the situation by taking risk. "let's continue whatever is going on or look for the easy option to face the situation." is our thought most of the times. Is something bothering us? If yes, then what it is? How can we tackle this to get better outcome?
Fear is a part of life. Being afraid of something is not bad, fear has to be there in life. But, it should not take control of our mind. If it does, we are not ready to face challenges, not ready to look for any options. And yes, we are not ready to choose better option to get better outcome, rather we accept the options which will give us minimal or no results. And we become a losers.
Why to become a loser and think about it rest of the life? Disasters are not in our hands, but we can find better solution to get rid of the situation. the only thing needed is courage. Just stand still and control your mind. Be strong. Control your fear and keep calm. Try to be calm even though conditions are against you. Being at peace gives eternal comfort and helps to be courageous. It helps to find out multiple solutions of a problem. Look for the better option and go with it. "What will they say?" is a killing dialogue. It kills most of the actions which will help you to grow. Remember, you are responsible for your actions. The society will talk in many ways. They will talk good and bad about it. But you have to believe in yourself to achieve something. Like Siddhu said, You got to be a believer first and then you can become an achiever. Never have doubt on your actions, have faith. Because, doubt creates a mountain and faith tunnels through that mountain. it just erases that mountain.
Most importantly, do not expect immediate results. Give relevant time. Edison had tried 1000 times to create a light source. He never said that he failed, rather he said that he found 999 ways of failure and one way of success. Never give up. You never know when the situation will change and you will start walking on path of success instead of failure. Just keep trying, keep trying and keep trying!
Sunit S. Pendse
18th March 2015
sunitpendse.blogspot.com
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Courage to me is like to convert weakness into ability, obstacles into the stepping stones and disaster into triumph. Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of fear.
- Navjyot Singh Siddhu, Former Cricketer, India
I was looking for videos of Navjyot Singh Siddhu's opinions about Sachin Tendulkar, the God of Cricket on YouTube. I found a video of his inspirational speech which he gave at Discon 2010 arranged by Rotary club of Bombay in Mumbai. He was talking about courage. In a video of around 48 minutes, he had given various examples of his cricket life which supported the topic. Wow, what a man with such amazing thoughts! He began the speech with first two lines which are the beginners of this article too.
Sometimes we are in a life or death situation. Not actually meant to the words, but it involves risk, may be smaller or bigger. Somehow, we are not ready to face the situation by taking risk. "let's continue whatever is going on or look for the easy option to face the situation." is our thought most of the times. Is something bothering us? If yes, then what it is? How can we tackle this to get better outcome?
Fear is a part of life. Being afraid of something is not bad, fear has to be there in life. But, it should not take control of our mind. If it does, we are not ready to face challenges, not ready to look for any options. And yes, we are not ready to choose better option to get better outcome, rather we accept the options which will give us minimal or no results. And we become a losers.
Why to become a loser and think about it rest of the life? Disasters are not in our hands, but we can find better solution to get rid of the situation. the only thing needed is courage. Just stand still and control your mind. Be strong. Control your fear and keep calm. Try to be calm even though conditions are against you. Being at peace gives eternal comfort and helps to be courageous. It helps to find out multiple solutions of a problem. Look for the better option and go with it. "What will they say?" is a killing dialogue. It kills most of the actions which will help you to grow. Remember, you are responsible for your actions. The society will talk in many ways. They will talk good and bad about it. But you have to believe in yourself to achieve something. Like Siddhu said, You got to be a believer first and then you can become an achiever. Never have doubt on your actions, have faith. Because, doubt creates a mountain and faith tunnels through that mountain. it just erases that mountain.
Most importantly, do not expect immediate results. Give relevant time. Edison had tried 1000 times to create a light source. He never said that he failed, rather he said that he found 999 ways of failure and one way of success. Never give up. You never know when the situation will change and you will start walking on path of success instead of failure. Just keep trying, keep trying and keep trying!
Sunit S. Pendse
18th March 2015
sunitpendse.blogspot.com
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