A Lesson In Life From A Sports Coach
When I was twelve my parents bought me a five foot snooker table for my birthday.My friends would regularly come round to my house for a game and when they were not there I would practice on my own.
After a few months a few of us decided to join a snooker club where we could play on full size tables. The club itself was superb and had free coaching for children under the age of sixteen on a Saturday morning. The name of this snooker coach was Glen and he was aged around 30 at the time. He was a real nice guy and a top class snooker player. There were regular tournaments as well as coaching and they gave us free drinks and toast.
The first goal of all of the players was to become the first player to score a break pf twenty. I was extremely determined that it would be me and listened carefully to what I was being taught and tried hard to implement it.
My progress was quite rapid and to my amazement I was the first person to score that elusive twenty break. People around the snooker table I was playing on started to applaud and I was walking around with a beaming smile on my face.
Glen who was on the other side of the room wondered over to find out what all of the noise was about. I thought he would be so proud of me and happy at my achievement, however he stated that if I could score twenty, I could score thirty. He told me to stop messing about and smiling, and to re-concentrate on the job in hand.
Glen had well and truly burst my bubble and I have to say that it made me rather annoyed. This lesson was a very good one for me to learn at such an early age and I eventually went on to have breaks of over one hundred.
I have taken the lesson from this experience into my personal life as well as for my businesses which are in the screw compressors, caught drink driving and Birmingham accountants sectors.
No matter how great we think we may be; there is always room for further improvement.
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