Repeat the good TIME

Good time is the period when your efforts give you the desired results. Things work your way because of your attitude, right decisions and resultant actions. At times this success or the desired result in the “good time” affects the attitude and then things change; your decisions may go wrong as your perceptions are different because of your attitude. The actions fail to deliver and then one blames the TIME. At this stage one needs to mentally go back to same period that was “good time”. The attitude needs to be realigned for the decisions that might prove right and good times may return. The circumstances that are adverse may not be under our control but what needs to be done in such conditions is certainly in our control. So one needs to rewind, audit good times and take actions.

I admire performance of West Indies in 2016 T20 Cricket World Cup. The team was written off, people were wondering whether they will play the World Cup. Abandoning India tour was disastrous. There were many issues. The team was disrespected by their board, Mark Nicholas described our team as a team with no brains. They lacked the resources. But the team was determined. Darren Sammy wanted to create the history.

Darren Sammy led the team in 2012 when others had deserted. In 2012 he contributed big to the win. When Samuels got out, West Indies were still 108 in the 18th over. They needed a strong finish to keep fighting. And fight Sammy did. He swung and ran like hell, turning three ones into twos in the last over, hitting two fours around those scrambles. He had that attitude; he took the right decisions and actions. West Indies emerged as winners.

In 2016 same Darren Sammy had to go full circle. He had to rewind and get into repeat mode again. In his emotional speech after the victory at Eden’s Garden he said “I got to give credit to the entire team here, it was us in our own little circle”. He also mentioned about the ability to just put all those adversities aside and to come out and play this type of cricket in front of such passionate fans. Had Sammy given up, not got back the same attitude that he had when he won the final against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, the 2016 win would not have been possible. The “good time” for Sammy and his team was because of going back to attitude that they had in “good days” and rework. Results were evident.