During Christmas holidays a couple of dear friends encouraged me to start writing a book. At least to start with something, small… put down thoughts, consistently. Coincidentally, I had just got started with gardening this blog. I don't know if it counts, because I'm not writing here in my native tongue.
However, languages shouldn't be a problem, "The world is full of means of translation and delivery. One needs first to have something weighty enough to say," I was told. Surely the world has not become complete.
Consider 'translation', in the wide meaning of the word here. Where does the 'weightiness' come from? As many of us in creative branch factually work in the universe of 'translation' business on constant growth – finding that sweet gravity well of weighty weightiness might become an odyssey.
Now, at this point a Prozac regimen was also suggested, but let's try another solution first - call in the business coach!
I've noticed an e-learning company I used to work for in 2001 – now called Tieturi Vision – has recently collaborated with ice hockey trainer and match pundit, coach and executive Juhani Tamminen a.k.a. 'Le Roi Soleil'. I remember him once saying, "Success always calls for discipline".
As I dug a bit deeper into the website I found a slide in 10 Steps to Become a Winner, that I felt elaborated on that stray one-liner:
Confidence is a matter of consistently doing three things:
• be reliable
• commit to excellence
• take care of others
Then, there's a lot of stuff about winning, becoming a winner, winning principles, the culture of winning and so on. I'm not interested in that, but that's not to say my relationship to competitiveness weren't complicated.
Pulled out of context Tami's three bullets don't sound too bad at all: be reliable, commit to excellence, take care of others. Simple and beyond most of the 'leading the right kind of life' chatter. But let's not blow this out of proportion…
In the beginning, I was talking about writing a book. How the matter is to find something reasonably weighty to say. Then, about the (seeming!) ease of translation versus creating the original. This all this might apply, yet I'm not writing a book here. Instead, I'm gardening a blog.
Based on principles originating from ice hockey rink.
