Mirza Yawar Baig – Success has a price
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The success of sports is a core values for the Galatians, and achieving excellence is crucial for motivation. basketball players like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant have a history of success, including their accomplishments in golfing, basketball, and other sports. The importance of achieving success is emphasized, and the Galatians and church are mentioned as examples of athletes who have achieved success.AI: Transcript ©
My brothers and sisters,
in 1999,
the turn of the century,
there was all kinds of
research
happening, and, people are publishing various kinds of
reports.
And I was here at this time,
So some of these reports I also saw.
1999.
One of those reports had to do with
what they call reaching a level of excellence.
They define reaching a level of excellence as
an Olympic gold medal.
That's standard. Somebody
and they took that standard and they applied
it across the board to all kinds of
things.
The Olympic gold medal have to do sports,
but it's not sports alone
in academics, in,
you know,
surgery, medicine, whatnot, all kinds of things.
So basically, they are saying that if you
want to get the equivalent of an Olympic
gold medal in whichever thing you are doing,
what is the percentage of people who get
there?
And probably not surprisingly
the report said that 2% of people. So
2% of people
reach the level of Olympic gold medal,
98%
of people don't.
Now that does not mean that 98% of
people are all useless. No. They're not at
the goal level.
Different rating or not, but not at that
level. So the first question that I ask
myself and I ask you to ask yourself
is, do you want to be in that
2% or not? That's the first question.
The difference
between
that 2%
and the rest
is astronomical.
It's phenomenal. There's no comparison to that.
Just to give you an idea,
the difference between
the first place and the second place
in the Indy 500 car race
in 2015 or 2016. I forget the exact
date but
20
something, 2015.
The difference between the 1st place and the
second place in terms of time
in the Indy 500 car race
was
0.78
second, which means less than one second.
Right? Between the first and second.
The difference in price money was $1,700,000
between the first and second place.
Less than one second.
Similarly,
many other things.
So the difference between
a gold medal standard
and
the rest is astronomical. So the question first
to ask is
is it worthwhile?
Do I really want to be there? The
reason I'm asking this question is because
to get there is not easy.
If you want to get into that 2%,
can you get there? Yes, absolutely. There's no
doubt about the fact that you can get
into that 2%.
Is it easy? No.
It is very, very, very, very, very difficult.
That's the reason why you need the motivation.
Because without that motivation,
you won't get there.
And that motivation
entirely,
100%
of that motivation has to come from inside.
Nobody
can force you.
Not your parents, not your
whoever, like teachers or anybody. Nobody can force
you.
It's either from inside you or you won't
make it.
Now to give you an idea of
the people who are at that or who
were at that
level and what they did, I did some
research. Let me tell you something.
Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan is considered to be the greatest
basketball player of all time. Number 1 in,
and he led the Chicago Bulls to 6
NBA championships.
He says, my whole life had been always
been about being
the best basketball player that I could possibly
be.
He said I had absolute tunnel vision
like this, can't see anything else.
Everything was channeled towards that
and we have the results
I think
Nike for whom he advertises
alone
paid Michael Jordan 1,600,000,000
dollars
That's just one sponsorship.
Kobe Bryant,
he had
a
pattern, he used to set a goal
of 10 baskets
from every spot that he
scored
on
the court.
So imagine, first of all, he remembers which
spot he scored
and after the game is over, his thing
was
10 baskets from each point and until he
had scored a perfect ten from each point
he would not go.
Second thing is his
he would divide his 6 hours. He used
to have a 6 hour
training session every day.
6
hours.
2 hours of weightlifting,
2 hours of cardio,
high intensity training and high intensity sprints,
and 2 hours of basketball drills.
They say about him
2 things that I recall
reading about him after he passed away.
His teammates, they said
that we would travel somewhere,
we would play a match, we would win
and when we came back,
what do you do after you come back?
You're trying to play, you win the match,
come back, you go home. Right? Not
not Bryant.
He said Kobe Bryant would not go home,
he would go to the court
and there he would practice
the 2
baskets that he missed
in the game. He would have missed, say,
2 baskets.
He said those 2 he would practice until
he was satisfied that he can do it.
Then only he would go home.
Now this is after a game they won,
not after they lose something.
Second thing is
they said that
one day their, coach said to them,
breakfast meeting, 8:30.
So he said all of us were cursing,
this man has got no sense, at 8:30
in the morning he wants us for a
breakfast meeting and so on and so on.
He said when we got there at the
breakfast meeting,
Kobe walks in, he's drenched in sweat from
head to toe.
He said, where were you? He said, I
was on the court from 5:30 in the
morning.
So before that breakfast meeting he has already
done 3 hours of his training.
That is the,
that's the key. Then Tiger Woods,
golf.
There's always this,
debate between Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods, who's
the best player of all time and so
on. And I think Tiger Woods
is was better than Jack Nicholas. With Jack
Nicholas,
what he scored in a certain period of
time, Tiger Woods scored double that in half
the time. So it is kind of big
difference.
His his, routine,
run 4 miles in the morning,
lift weights at the gym, hit balls for
3 hours on the range,
play a round of golf which is 18
holes,
work on the short game
and run another 4 byes.
And then go and play either basketball or
tennis.
And I might say why is a golfer
playing basketball or tennis? Because to get the
ball
eye and hand coordination.
And
he says, of course you always want to
get in that second 4 mile
run before hitting
the tennis or basketball courts.
Sounds crazy,
no? That's life. Michael Flaps. Michael Flaps
is probably the most decorated Olympian
swimmer
of all time.
He got a total of 28 gold medals.
Nobody came even close to that till now.
He also holds the all time records for
Olympic gold medals and Olympic gold medal individual
events with 13 and
Olympic medals individually, but it was 16.
Now
he won 8 gold medals at the 2,008
Beijing games,
and he broke his fellow American
swimmer, Mark Spitz, who's another very famous swimmer,
1972
record of 7
first place finishes
at any single Olympic games
and Flaps did 8.
Now according to Bohmah, Bohmah is the guy
who wrote his, his biography.
He says flaps used to swim 13 kilometers
a day,
7 days a week.
And at least
80,000
meters
every week
even on Sundays and both days.
No
3 65 days.
And he used to spend his training into
2 sessions
of
5 or 6 hours in the pool per
day.
A historical fact.
Of the ordinary
Roman soldier, we are not talking here about
peak athletes
for competing for the Olympics. We are not
talking about people who
are working with the absolute state of the
art equipment, state of the art,
you know, scientific technology.
They've got the best doctors in the world.
They've got the best
sports consultants in the world. Everything, you you
name it. I mean, when you get to
that level,
there's no,
nobody is tilting for anything. They they want
you there. Everything you got But the ordinary
Roman soldier he didn't have any of that
Now look at his level of
The ordinary Roman legionary
marched
20 to 25 miles
every day in 5 hours. Every day 25
miles in 5 hours.
5 miles an hour he's marching.
That's not that's not all. In full gear,
armor,
£30,
helmet, £5,
shield,
which is called a scutum, £15, because it
was a full
body shield,
sword called the Gladius, £3.
He carried 2 pila, which is pilum, the
singular javelins,
£10 each, that's £20.
Other equipment which is cooking parts and rations
and so on.
Total weight
of 100 and £25 which is 56 kilograms.
Carrying 56 kilograms,
£125
the ordinary Roman soldier walked or marched
in
wooden
sandals with,
with nails,
nail bottom, wooden sandals with leather.
He walked 25 miles
every day
in 5 hours.
At the end of that march, he dug
his section of the trench
which surrounded the Roman marching fort
6 feet deep, piled up the earth to
make a battlement and put stakes on top.
Only then was he allowed to pitch his
tent and cook his food.
And then on sentry duty, he went to
work after their meal.
The punishment
of sleeping on sentry duty was death.
You can't say I'm very tired.
You sleep,
you die.
And that's why
the Roman army
almost never lost a battle.
Pure physical fitness,
pure dedication,
and pure complete total discipline.
And the Romans were brutal with it.
Their discipline was incredible but also very, very
brutal.
If you went out of line, you were
in
I mean, you they didn't they didn't have
hospital, but they would have put you in
hospital. That that's the kind of punishment we
got.
So I remind myself I knew that success
is possible.
Nobody in the world can say success is
not possible.
The question is are you and I willing
to do what it takes to succeed?
There's always a price.
What is that price?
Depending on my goal, that's the reason why
the goals are important. What do you want
to do? Because success for you, success for
me is not the same thing.
It depends on your goal. So whatever your
goal is. So for that goal,
what is required,
if you fulfill that requirement, you get success.
If you don't fulfill the requirement, you don't
get it. It's as simple as going into
a shower and buying something. It has a
price. Pay the price, you buy it. You
can't pay the price, you can't buy it.
That's it.
So also in life.
We ask Allah to help us to succeed
in this life and hereafter. That's the beauty
of this religion which is if you practice
this religion the way we should practice it
then you will get success in this life
and the hereafter. It's not one against the
other.
So we ask Allah about success in this
life and the year after.
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