Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Inspiration
Don't you just love it when you see someone doing well? Or do you react the other way and immediately think, "I can't do that." or "I wish that was me." or "I'm no good." Which is it for you?
For me, I don't compare myself to others in that way; I just get a thrill from seeing (or hearing) someone perform so exceptionally well that they are in a class of their own. They are an inspiration, a role-model and even an icon, although I don't put them on a pedestal. I just admire them. I can say the same whether it's someone like Itzhak Perlman the 61 year old violinist who had polio as a child so he comes onto the platform with crutches (I see him perform at the Barbican in 2 weeks time! :-) ) or young Lewis Hamilton, the hugely successful 22 year old Formula One racing driver who was just pipped to the Driver's Championship by Raikkonen this season.
Lewis Hamilton
Hamilton appears to come out of nowhere; it's his first Formula One season and he almost got the Driver's Championship title. Although, without many of us knowing, he's been working himself up from Karting since he was a child and then through F2 until this season. He has had a huge effect on the popularity of F1 sport; at last we have a British driver capable of winning the championship, probably several times in his young career.
Now I hear in the news today that Hamilton may well have a negative effect on the sport as audiences turn away because of the predictability of his win; it's the Schumacher effect over again.
So here we have an interesting situation where we 'will' someone to win, and we 'like' to see such phenomenal skill, but when they become so good that they leave the competition standing; we do not have a competition, but a mere parade around the F1 circuit from the beginning of the race to the end.
People are saying about Hamilton...."How can we slow him down?" What is this at all! Yes we like a competition, but surely we should be asking "How can we speed the others up a bit?" One minute we're wanting them to drive faster, then the next we want them to go slower. We don't know one bit of our anatomy from another, if you ask me.
"Lewis, you do it for me! Good luck next season." As for slowing him down,...... Well, I say pooh, pooh to that! Let's get positive. Thanks for the inspiration!
I just love seeing people being successful! :-)
