Sports.

The academic year will start soon. Besides classroom work there will be calls for you to joint various activities. I would strongly recommend participation in sports.
Education encompasses mental and physical activities, both are important. You are at the stage of your life where you are rapidly growing, smarter and stronger. A wholesome life not only requires good academic results, it also requires good education in physical activities. Sports not only train you to be strong and healthy, it also teaches you many lessons.

There are many jobs out there that require good hand-eye coordination, like surgeons, dentists, master craftsmen and engineers among others. Pilots need the coordination of their hands, legs and eyes to fly. These occupations also require multi-tasking. Multi-tasking means to be able to analyze and act simultaneously. Sports train you to perfect this ability.

In sports, you experience winning and losing. As in life we sometimes win and we sometimes lose. We must learn to win and lose graciously. Be humble when you win and be happy to learn lessons when you lose. View every lost as opportunity to emerge richer. Sports also enrich us with the responsibility of leadership and the humility of being led. Good sportsmanship is to respect those worthy of respect and praise those worthy of praise.

As you grow to have a more sophisticated mind and a stronger body, lay life is all about balance - the material and the spiritual, self and others, the mind and the body and work and play. The extreme of any path is unwise.

All the best to the New Year and may you have the wisdom to direct yourself to the right path in this exciting time of your life.

Coach jkhoowc 