There is an old saying: Champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there. Boxing is good analogy for leadership development because it is all about daily preparation. Even if a person has a natural talent, he has to prepare and train to become successful. One of the most famous quotes of President Theodore Roosevelt uses a boxing analogy: “It is not the critics who counts, not the man points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause.” “ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Corithians 9:25-27 KJV AMEN.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 01:46:11 +0000