Taste the Essence of Success

BRAVEHEART - "A Heart brave enough to lead a team with confidence to fight against opponents and taste the essence of success"

I am not sure how many of you watched this famous movie "BRAVEHEART" which received lots of accolades for its cinematography and originality of its direction. It came out in 1995 directed by Mel Gibson. Yep, the same famous Mel who directed "The Passion of the Christ (2004)". BRAVEHEART is a kinda of movie which needs to be seen at least once by everybody and I would recommend it to anybody.

You might wondering why am I telling this in relation with the Indian World Cup Team. May be I am silly to correlate the story of the movie with our Indian team heading towards the WC 2007. But I feel they go very well together.

Let me give a quick synopsis on the movie for the benefit of people who haven't seen the movie so it will help to co-relate easily.

BRAVEHEART is about a man who bravely start to oppose the strong British dictatorship and tried to fight against them with very less man power and very little support as allies. He built a small force with men who has only their work axes to fight. He believed in them and they believed in him. He won the first war against the local dictator which gave the path to build a big organized war front by uniting people with the advise of elders to oppose the king. He could have gone all the way to defeat the king but he got betrayed by his allies and ended up getting caught and hanged. The takeaway from this movie, a leader should be brave enough and should have belief in him. He also should have great confidence about his people who can win any wars without any fear.

Now lets talk about team. Do we have a great lead/good captain who can lead the team ? Yes we do have a good captain who won few series both at home and outside. Is he have the courage and charisma to lead them to the World cup? I think he does.

First he needs to believe that we can win the World cup. He should have great confidence about his teammates and should believe that we all can win the opponents one at a time. Like our Mahatma Gandhi said,

“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”

Once you start believing in you which will provoke the thoughts. Thoughts will become your mantra(words) and mantra become your action to accomplish your destiny.

Next comes the team, we have very good diversified team with good batsmen(Sehwag, Sachin, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Dhoni), bowlers(Zaheer,Seeshanth,Agarkar, Kumble, Harbajan) and a full time wicket keeper(Dhoni). They should believe that our captain can lead the team to great success. They should have confidence in themselves and also should show their full commitment toward wining every step of the game to beat the opponent. They should shine in every match in what they are good at.

Next comes the war field, Leader should be able to judge the war field which is the game field at this instance. In Braveheart, William Wallace(Leader) judges the war field and plan it accordingly and he own without any big weapons. Similarly, if Captain can judge the play field and not taking the opponent for granted and plan to have correct team in hand to fight, we have easily taste the fruit of success.

Next, taking the experienced people advice. Leader shouldn't hesitate to opt for suggestion and advice from the experienced folks. We have Ganguly who is well matured with lots of matches on his cap and lead our team to 2004 WC. He should be capable of giving advices on critical moments. There shouldn't be any ego to request and take the advice.

Finally, Patience and Perseverance can lead any man to success. As a leader he should be patient enough to withstand on any opposition and shouldn't get frustrated to apply his techniques as per the situation. Also he should be great perseverance to keep on what he is doing and never quit until reach the success.

With all the above proper mantra's in hand, we can easily taste the essence of success slowly to win the world cup. One Small step at a time and one match at a time without thinking about the cup should get us closer. I wish all the very best to them.