Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

[twiney]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho L

Time fi professed "christian" who naw live by the bible start look inna fi them life and leave those who are not of the same faith. I am not suggesting that one doesn't care or approve of everything everyone does but unno need fi take unno self outa the people them bedroom and stop a call down marriage pon them... marriage is not a trivial matter ... marriage in today's society is the major cause of divorce and as one saying goes ...from the beginning it was not so!

[SmoothOperator]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Some people just miss the point. While Bolt is a showman I've never seen him as arrogant compared to some sprinters.

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[Yuriatin]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Yes. And another thing you know Blackstar - ah nuh <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">TI DEH</span></span> Bolt ah run track ... ! All whe yah seem do pan di field ah nuh nothin new.

All these Johnny Come latelies make me laff.

[Yuriatin]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho L



Word.
<span style="font-style: italic">
The day I take advice from a Catholic Priest ... </span>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Twiney</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Time fi professed &quot;christian&quot; who naw live by the bible start look inna fi them life and leave those who are not of the same faith. I am not suggesting that one doesn't care or approve of everything everyone does but unno need fi take unno self outa the people them bedroom and stop a call down marriage pon them... marriage is not a trivial matter ... marriage in today's society is the major cause of divorce and as one saying goes ...from the beginning it was not so! </div></div>

[Wahalla]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

tanks fi dat...

I will watch hit later... (Course I wont if u only meant it for MG!)

Bolt is not a saint. He is a man.. like me.. (faster than me)...

He will make mistakes, just like I make mistakes.

He hasnt done anything wrong or bad.. He choses to have sex... Who can begrudge a man that. I hope he has more than I had at his age!...that is the best blessing I can offer!

[Gen]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

no man anyone can watch it. nice little Q&amp;A he has been dong for the past couple years at the college.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">tanks fi dat...

I will watch hit later... (Course I wont if u only meant it for MG!)

Bolt is not a saint. He is a man.. like me.. (faster than me)...

He will make mistakes, just like I make mistakes.

He hasnt done anything wrong or bad.. He choses to have sex... Who can begrudge a man that. I hope he has more than I had at his age!...that is the best blessing I can offer! </div></div>

[Blackstar*]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Tips for Business Executives from Usain Bolt
An IMD professor summarized these points from Bolt's talk in 6 July 2010. Good stuff.

<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">ARE YOU ACHIEVING YOUR FULL POTENTIAL?</span></span>
Tips from track star Usain Bolt
By Professor John Weeks

Are you achieving your full potential? If you feel the answer is no, be encouraged. The fastest man in the world was also in the same boat at one point in time.

Usain Bolt is a phenomenon. He is far and away the fastest man on earth, having established a number of world records. For the third time, on August 22, 2012, Bolt returns to the IMD campus to share his insights on motivation with a business audience and to speak about the principles to sustained success. The following are 10 tips that can be gleaned from Bolt on how to translate potential into achievement.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">1. Get help</span>
Bolt had shown enormous early promise, but by the time he met his coach he had become an injury prone underachiever. Mills overhauled his training program to improve Bolt’s strength but also to protect a congenital spine defect that was the root cause of his recurring hamstring injuries. Finding the right coach or mentor is critical for anyone who wants to improve. In a Fortune article, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reckoned that the recommendation to ‘hire a coach’ was the best piece of advice he ever received – not because the coach can do it better than you, but because he or she helps you to know yourself, face your weaknesses and decide where to allocate your efforts.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">2. Forget entitlement</span>
Mills helped Bolt to understand that his physical talent was no guarantee for success, unless accompanied by the requisite mental strength and discipline. To reach the top in any field, natural talent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. It is the same for aspiring leaders who assume they will ‘make it’ on the strength of their brains and ambition. We meet too many high potentials who aspire to high leadership, but are used to rewards for being bright and creative. This breeds a sense of entitlement that is incompatible with the need to work on their weaknesses and continue learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">3. Fight deafness</span>
Remain receptive. As successes accumulate, it is easy to get carried away. The fun-loving Bolt chose a trainer renowned as a strict disciplinarian, knowing that Mills would help him stay focused on the task. Bolt understood he needed someone to keep him honest. It’s the same for executives: as they accumulate successes, they can grow hard of hearing or even deaf. Maintain contact with people who will keep asking the awkward questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">4. Learn to lose</span>
Bolt learned the hard way that: ‘You have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win’. That means discarding that crippling fear of failure. As Bolt puts it, once that fear is gone, then you can focus on the positive and you can play to win. Management scholar Chris Argyris noted a similar challenge for fast-trackers in organizations. He found that the psychological make-up of smart people paradoxically made it harder for them to learn. Having rarely experienced failure, they had not properly learned how to deal with the embarrassment and sense of threat that accompanies it. When they encountered failure, it triggered defensive routines that inhibited learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">5. Build resilience</span>
Mills also instilled in Bolt the idea that injuries are part of the game when you are pushing your body to its limits. They are to be expected – and even welcomed as part of your development. Injuries help to build mental resilience. They provide an opportunity to correct weaknesses, but also to reflect on the things you are doing right. Similarly, for executives who are stretching to the limits of their capabilities, it is impossible to avoid setbacks and even the odd derailment. Setbacks can help individuals identify what they truly value and who they truly trust.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">6. Forestall stress</span>
Bolt shows no signs of nerves as he prepares for a race. On the contrary, he likes to entertain the crowd with his antics. The pre-race routine helps to take his mind off stress and to gain a sense of control over his environment. Where anxious rivals see the pressure of expectations from the packed crowd, Bolt sees support. He believes that ‘the crowd is your friend.’ Executive life is replete with potential stressors including difficult relationships, job uncertainty, travel obligations, unrealistic deadlines and sudden changes. To progress, executives have to learn to reframe or shut out those stressors.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">7. Remember the goal</span>
To push himself through punishing training sessions, Bolt keeps his eyes on the long-term objective. But he also knows that come the training session, he won’t want to do it. So he has given Mills the permission to force him to do it. Numerous studies have shown that people are really bad at following through on things that they want to do in the long term, because they tend to discount future benefits so steeply. Like Bolt, ambitious executives must forfeit immediate benefits in the interests of longer term goals. This might mean finding clever ways to save themselves from their own weaknesses – ‘pre-commitments’ that will help them to stick with an objective they might otherwise dodge.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">8. Reboot the dream</span>
After his stunning feats in Beijing, Bolt’s new-found celebrity generated fresh distractions, including interviews, talk shows and celebrity parties. For a while, he lost his motivation to train, until a chance exchange with an old friend made him realize that his real dream was not to smash records but become ‘a legend’. Similarly, there may come a time when executives will have to contemplate what will sustain their motivation, emotional flexibility and intellectual vitality in the future.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">9. Keep it fun</span>
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the ebullient Bolt is his sense of fun. He jokes about the hard work and the amount of effort, pain and discipline involved, but he projects an infectious joy that comes from doing something that he loves to do and having a purpose that he believes in passionately. Even the most routine jobs can be made more interesting by turning them into a game. The trick is to treat the component parts of the job as a series of challenges and then to set small goals. It is a question of identifying something that you want to do a little bit better or a little bit differently, and then working on it incrementally.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">10. Beware of overconfidence</span>
Bolt left it entirely to Mills to decide whether he would double up in the 100m and 200m in Beijing or whether participating in the 100m would jeopardize his chances of gold in his specialist event, the 200m. As world record holder in the 100m, Bolt could have insisted on entering both events, but he realized that overconfidence might cloud his judgment. Executives also have to ‘know their limits’. Typically, there is a stage in your advancement where the next challenge is ‘way beyond’ what you have done before. You need to recognize this discontinuity and not let the excitement of the challenge distort your judgment about the stretch required. The last thing you need is to sign on for ‘mission impossible’.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Lessons from the fast-lane</span>
Running flat-out is something that virtually everyone tries at some time. To be number one in the world, you have to be better than billions of people. Natural talent clearly rules, but at that extreme level of performance, the mental aspect is what makes the difference. It is about the ability to reframe injuries, failures and pressures as stimulants to learning, growth and the pursuit of excellence. Take the example of Bolt’s compatriot, Asafa Powell. Although he has been the top performer in the world for several years – having won more sub-10 second 100m races than any other sprinter ever – he has yet to win a major championship.

[blugiant]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho L

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Twiney</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Time fi professed &quot;christian&quot; who naw live by the bible start look inna fi them life and leave those who are not of the same faith. I am not suggesting that one doesn't care or approve of everything everyone does but unno need fi take unno self outa the people them bedroom and stop a call down marriage pon them... marriage is not a trivial matter ... marriage in today's society is the major cause of divorce and as one saying goes ...from the beginning it was not so! </div></div>

diss mekk mii laff

mrriage is a major cause aff divorce. wow dat profound

y dem funnee cathoolikkk priest inn ja doan gitt xxposed? mii wander y mii doan ear priest ho bunn fiyah pon catholikkks church immoralitee

[Gen]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

first time I read it and saw point # 3, I busted out laughing, sound like something a yardy would seh

&quot;fight deafness&quot;

remember growing up and being asked &quot;yuh deaf&quot;

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tips for Business Executives from Usain Bolt
An IMD professor summarized these points from Bolt's talk in 6 July 2010. Good stuff.

<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">ARE YOU ACHIEVING YOUR FULL POTENTIAL?</span></span>
Tips from track star Usain Bolt
By Professor John Weeks

Are you achieving your full potential? If you feel the answer is no, be encouraged. The fastest man in the world was also in the same boat at one point in time.

Usain Bolt is a phenomenon. He is far and away the fastest man on earth, having established a number of world records. For the third time, on August 22, 2012, Bolt returns to the IMD campus to share his insights on motivation with a business audience and to speak about the principles to sustained success. The following are 10 tips that can be gleaned from Bolt on how to translate potential into achievement.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">1. Get help</span>
Bolt had shown enormous early promise, but by the time he met his coach he had become an injury prone underachiever. Mills overhauled his training program to improve Bolt’s strength but also to protect a congenital spine defect that was the root cause of his recurring hamstring injuries. Finding the right coach or mentor is critical for anyone who wants to improve. In a Fortune article, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reckoned that the recommendation to ‘hire a coach’ was the best piece of advice he ever received – not because the coach can do it better than you, but because he or she helps you to know yourself, face your weaknesses and decide where to allocate your efforts.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">2. Forget entitlement</span>
Mills helped Bolt to understand that his physical talent was no guarantee for success, unless accompanied by the requisite mental strength and discipline. To reach the top in any field, natural talent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. It is the same for aspiring leaders who assume they will ‘make it’ on the strength of their brains and ambition. We meet too many high potentials who aspire to high leadership, but are used to rewards for being bright and creative. This breeds a sense of entitlement that is incompatible with the need to work on their weaknesses and continue learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">3. Fight deafness</span>
Remain receptive. As successes accumulate, it is easy to get carried away. The fun-loving Bolt chose a trainer renowned as a strict disciplinarian, knowing that Mills would help him stay focused on the task. Bolt understood he needed someone to keep him honest. It’s the same for executives: as they accumulate successes, they can grow hard of hearing or even deaf. Maintain contact with people who will keep asking the awkward questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">4. Learn to lose</span>
Bolt learned the hard way that: ‘You have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win’. That means discarding that crippling fear of failure. As Bolt puts it, once that fear is gone, then you can focus on the positive and you can play to win. Management scholar Chris Argyris noted a similar challenge for fast-trackers in organizations. He found that the psychological make-up of smart people paradoxically made it harder for them to learn. Having rarely experienced failure, they had not properly learned how to deal with the embarrassment and sense of threat that accompanies it. When they encountered failure, it triggered defensive routines that inhibited learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">5. Build resilience</span>
Mills also instilled in Bolt the idea that injuries are part of the game when you are pushing your body to its limits. They are to be expected – and even welcomed as part of your development. Injuries help to build mental resilience. They provide an opportunity to correct weaknesses, but also to reflect on the things you are doing right. Similarly, for executives who are stretching to the limits of their capabilities, it is impossible to avoid setbacks and even the odd derailment. Setbacks can help individuals identify what they truly value and who they truly trust.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">6. Forestall stress</span>
Bolt shows no signs of nerves as he prepares for a race. On the contrary, he likes to entertain the crowd with his antics. The pre-race routine helps to take his mind off stress and to gain a sense of control over his environment. Where anxious rivals see the pressure of expectations from the packed crowd, Bolt sees support. He believes that ‘the crowd is your friend.’ Executive life is replete with potential stressors including difficult relationships, job uncertainty, travel obligations, unrealistic deadlines and sudden changes. To progress, executives have to learn to reframe or shut out those stressors.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">7. Remember the goal</span>
To push himself through punishing training sessions, Bolt keeps his eyes on the long-term objective. But he also knows that come the training session, he won’t want to do it. So he has given Mills the permission to force him to do it. Numerous studies have shown that people are really bad at following through on things that they want to do in the long term, because they tend to discount future benefits so steeply. Like Bolt, ambitious executives must forfeit immediate benefits in the interests of longer term goals. This might mean finding clever ways to save themselves from their own weaknesses – ‘pre-commitments’ that will help them to stick with an objective they might otherwise dodge.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">8. Reboot the dream</span>
After his stunning feats in Beijing, Bolt’s new-found celebrity generated fresh distractions, including interviews, talk shows and celebrity parties. For a while, he lost his motivation to train, until a chance exchange with an old friend made him realize that his real dream was not to smash records but become ‘a legend’. Similarly, there may come a time when executives will have to contemplate what will sustain their motivation, emotional flexibility and intellectual vitality in the future.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">9. Keep it fun</span>
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the ebullient Bolt is his sense of fun. He jokes about the hard work and the amount of effort, pain and discipline involved, but he projects an infectious joy that comes from doing something that he loves to do and having a purpose that he believes in passionately. Even the most routine jobs can be made more interesting by turning them into a game. The trick is to treat the component parts of the job as a series of challenges and then to set small goals. It is a question of identifying something that you want to do a little bit better or a little bit differently, and then working on it incrementally.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">10. Beware of overconfidence</span>
Bolt left it entirely to Mills to decide whether he would double up in the 100m and 200m in Beijing or whether participating in the 100m would jeopardize his chances of gold in his specialist event, the 200m. As world record holder in the 100m, Bolt could have insisted on entering both events, but he realized that overconfidence might cloud his judgment. Executives also have to ‘know their limits’. Typically, there is a stage in your advancement where the next challenge is ‘way beyond’ what you have done before. You need to recognize this discontinuity and not let the excitement of the challenge distort your judgment about the stretch required. The last thing you need is to sign on for ‘mission impossible’.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Lessons from the fast-lane</span>
Running flat-out is something that virtually everyone tries at some time. To be number one in the world, you have to be better than billions of people. Natural talent clearly rules, but at that extreme level of performance, the mental aspect is what makes the difference. It is about the ability to reframe injuries, failures and pressures as stimulants to learning, growth and the pursuit of excellence. Take the example of Bolt’s compatriot, Asafa Powell. Although he has been the top performer in the world for several years – having won more sub-10 second 100m races than any other sprinter ever – he has yet to win a major championship. </div></div>

[Blackstar*]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Gen, that video you posted was excellent. Thanks so much for that.

[Gen]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Ms Star if you go on IMD channel, you will see other videos as well and one with coach mills

insight and lots of behind the scenes information from them. never know him don't like/trust the media don't blame him though cause dem always twist up people words fi sell story.

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[Wahalla]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Went to the Gym.. Watched the first video while doing my cardio on the eliptical trainer...

That was a very good interveiw. It emphersised the parts that are of interest to me.. The hard work, the vomiting from effort, his limits.. It was an agnostic aproach.. no mention as yanki atheltes tend to do of thanking god.. I dont care about who Usain sleeps with...

I will make my daughter watch this when I get home..She wants to be an actress...

He made a commet that it is not the winners of champs we should watch... because of the quality of coaching is less in the country... This is the same as the level of educational teaching.. A point that I am constantly harpying on about..
A comment or observation.. note he keeps the professional part of his life seperate from his familiy...

I let me be clear.. was supporting Asafa to win the 100's... Bolt got enough support

[Tropicana]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho L

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">missa chin wey preachinn oyinbo christianitee preachinn pon oww blakk man shood act ann imm nuh see de racism widd dat.

y do peeps aff addar race a try fe tell successful blakk man fe be humble </div></div>

Excuse me....Father Ho Lung is Jamaica and he has been in Jamaica longer than you have been alive.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Fr. Richard Ho Lung is a Jamaican, born to Chinese parents on September 17, 1939 in Richmond, St Mary.</div></div>

He does have a right to speak out about any and everything that concerns Jamaica. If you are saying that because he is Chinese he has no right to speak you sir are the one being racist. What's up with calling him Mr. Chin. He has a name. How would you like it if someone called you Rochester, Bunga, or Buckwheat? How would you like it if someone called your lady Aunt Jemima? You would be the first one on here hollering about racism.

It is absolutely shocking and it speaks volumes that no one else has called you on this.

[Blackstar*]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ms Star if you go on IMD channel, you will see other videos as well and one with coach mills

insight and lots of behind the scenes information from them. never know him don't like/trust the media don't blame him though cause dem always twist up people words fi sell story. </div></div>
Ironic though that the Jamaican economy isn't so great, but business leaders (in Switzerland no less as opposed to down in the dumps Portugal or Greece) are learning from the success of the athletics program in Jamaica.

Bwoy, so much <span style="font-weight: bold">unrealized potential</span> in JA...

[Blackstar*]

Re: Spoiling Usain Bolt - Excellent by Father Ho Lung

Rather than worrying about &quot;morality&quot; and judging others, this biblical tale comes to mind:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Parable of the Talents

14 p“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants1 and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents,2 to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.3 You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast hthe worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’</div></div>
Usain is using his talents but what about the rest of Jamaica?