What Can Cricket Teach You About Life?
Cricket is an incredible game. In fact, it’s more than a game and is a microcosm of life. The game teaches us lessons that help us prepare for life’s challenges. Let’s examine some of these things:
- Team Game - you can achieve so much more when you work together as a team.
- Leadership - to succeed you need good leaders – look, listen and learn from them.
- Passion - is infectious and binds a team together.
- Education - every game is different and you’ll learn something by watching others including your competitors.
- Complacency - there’s no place for it! Never underestimate your competition.
- Prepare - have a game plan because failing to plan is planning to fail. A new bowler is a new challenge. Be prepared for the unexpected.
- Stay Calm - the game of cricket (and life) is full of pressure moments. Stay calm and execute your skills. When everyone else is losing their head, keep yours.
- Consistent practice produces consistent performances. Work on your weaknesses.
- Hard Work produces results. The harder you work, the luckier you get. Skill will only get you so far so make sacrifices and reap the rewards.
- If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Never give up!
- Age is no barrier - cricket is a game of strategy and learn from the crafty old foxes!
- Rules exist for a reason and operate within them. Ethics and sportsmanship matter.
- Discipline - you get punished for bowling wides and not following the team rules
- Have fun! Follow your dreams
- Success builds self-confidence.
- Be Humble - celebrate the peaks but there will be plenty of troughs
- Take it One Ball at a time - don’t get ahead of yourself in cricket or life
- Sport and exercise help build fitness that can help with mental health
- A coach can make a big difference in Cricket and in Business
- Singles can win games and small improvements in a business can produce big returns
- Protection is important. In business, this means adequate and appropriate insurances
- Learn from your mistakes - stop playing that shot that keeps getting you out and in business, stop spending your money on marketing that doesn’t work.
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