Age
- 11 years, summer vacations on
Morning:
4:30
am – Wake up alarm. Sachin used to get up for a fresh morning jog in his
locality. He used to be back home by 5:15 am.
6:00
am - After early morning trot, he used to get ready for the training session
and leave home by 6 o’clock. The training used to go on till 10 am.
After
coming home, he used to take some rest (Actually, rest for him meant playing with his society
comrades and indulging in all sorts of childhood naughtiness,
afterall, Childhood is the most beautiful of all Life’s season. It comes once
in a lifetime and it is the time of fun.)
Afternoon:
3
pm – After taking lunch, he used to march for an afternoon session of training
which used to start by 3 and end up by 7 pm. He
used to practice hours and hours in the net, batting in four nets at one
stretch. Importantly, he used to enjoy it.
End of days play, finally.
That’s how he spend most of his summer vacations. What a jam-packed schedule
it was. (Food for thought: What we guys did or do during our vacation period, I don't know about others but I can tell
about myself, nothing other than fun and sleep)
Also
during his school days, after returning from school in the afternoon, he used
to immediately rush for the practice session at Shivaji Park. To save time travelling
back to his home, he started going to his uncle’s place near his school at
Shivaji Park in Dadar area of Mumbai. Such was the passion for the game and
that, too, at an early age. Incredible!
But,
1 sec, I am forgetting that I am not talking about any common man. He is really
out of this world yet very indigenous.
Simply
determined to chase excellence in any way possible without worrying about the
final outcome. He is so obsessed with the game that the phrase ‘eat cricket,
drink cricket and sleep cricket’ rings true for him. This is Master for you and
his chase for excellence which made him taste success.
It is not enough to just possess a talent, we need to polish it often with a tool named 'Hardwork' to make it shine. That's what Sachin did. Chase
for brilliance, fineness in his batting found him running ahead of success. Don’t think about the result, keep on working with
the thing we love with lots of passion, then see, success is ought to fall in
trap of hardwork set by us. Who thinks of first reward and then work, never
finds one but the one thinking in other direction is sure to hit the bulls-eye.
Two
decades gone by, but still the search, chase for excellence of Master has never
stopped. Still we find him learning, improving on his game, sweating hard in
the nets. He always says, ‘It is very difficult to learn everything about the game,
each day and every new match brings new learning and the learning should never
stop, the search for excellence should never stop. Keep growing with the game.”
He still considers himself as a student of the game. Remember, you are never
too old to learn.
This
is what makes success follow him and not others who themselves chase
success, easy victory. This is just one example of Master which I gave to prove the
very fact of Baba Ranchoddas true. But if you look around, you may find various
people from different fields going strong than their competitors and if you try
to dig in for the secret of their success, you will find nothing different than
what I told. Every great people are alike because they have urge for excellence
which makes success run behind this people.
Baba
Ranchoddas, tusi great ho..!!
