Even without financial inheritance, it can be done!

I know that when I wrote that every aspect of life is within reach with confidence derived from intelligence, courage, strength and coordination, there is the possibility that someone would point out that poverty could be a stumbling block.

For that, I wish to draw your attention to a man I know. When I first met him, I knew he was the owner of his own big factory. Seeing his muscular build, I asked how often he frequented the gym. He wondered where the coversation was heading to but told me he had never been to one. His muscles came from bending heated canes to make cane furniture. He was the employee of the shop. And he did the work after school hours.

This man, now aged approximately forty, came from a poor farming family. His education was only up to primary school level but he did not lack intelligence. He worked hard at many jobs to help his parents. He was tough, ready to learn and improved his knowledge and ability in the school of hard knocks. He had the courage to even travel from his homeland to acquire sufficient knowledge and money to start his own factory.

So, with intelligence, courage, strength and coordination, one can gather the necessary knowledge, expertise, and money to achieve one’s goal in life.

Without strength and coordination, he might not have been able to do cane-bending well enough to earn his first pay-check and realize the importance of money in big projects in life.

Without the intelligence, he would not have realized that the boss gets the bigger share of it. He would not have realized it would require a lot of tough work to gain money and make the difference to his family’s total income. He would not have realised he had to find the expertise and knowledge to start his own business.

Certainly, he must have confidence to venture wherever it takes to gain the essential knowledge and ability to start a factory. Knowing the importance of money, he must have saved most of whatever he earned to be financially capable to think of a factory.

This is the story of a self-made man; one with the strength and coordination to take on many jobs, one with the confidence and courage to venture far from his poor beginning. Obviously, it was a tough, uphill climb but it could be done.

Of course, not everyone can do it because it needs true intelligence to learn in the school of hard knocks, understand and realize what it takes to make it, to realize effort must be substantial and have the courage to seize the opportunity when it comes.

Training for strength, coordination and confidence.

Without confidence and courage, who would dare to do this?

This vault needs flexiblity too.

This somersault needs lots of strength and coordination as well as courage.All the above must be learned through a good, vigilant coach.
All the pictures in black and white were taken at a time when coloured photos were not available; in 1968.

Our lives depend upon it!

Imagine watching a car hurtling towards you at breakneck speed, your mind perceiving the danger heading your way and shrieking for action to avoid imminent death. If you manage to remain calm, with excellent coordination of the various parts of the body and the mind, the response merely takes a few seconds to dash out of the way of the speeding vehicle. Without good coordination, the reaction will be slower by just a few seconds and death can be the only outcome! So, assess for yourself how important coordination is.

Children need toys and games which are essential to the development of their coordination, strength, imagination and creativity.

Coordination of the eyes, the ears, the mind and the various parts of our body is necessary for the accomplishment of every successful act in our lives. Without coordination, even the person who has lots of strength will be clumsy.

How good a person is at any activity in life depends upon the degree of coordination of the necessarily involved parts of the body. Take typing as an example. Some people have such wonderful coordination, and with a little practice, fingers fly over the letters on the keyboard to type that very second, whatever their eyes encounter on the paper beside the keyboard.

So, there is a need to train and develop coordination. To achieve this, parents should make available toys and games which help develop coordination.
To develop coordination, babies could be encouraged to hold our fingers as we hold them in front of them. Using just our fingers or the movement of our face, we can get the child to look towards the left or the right and reach out for our fingers or objects held in our hands.

Encouraging babies to crawl and walk is important as these actions need coordination too.

Toy cars and balls, which can be rolled, pushed or moved or thrown from one person to another, are excellent toys for learning coordination. It helps the child to look and focus on the object, watch its movement and be ready with the hands to catch it as it approaches. Later, the ball can also be thrown in the air towards the child for him/her to catch. The ball can also be kicked, where there is a need to coordinate the eyes with the legs and the information of the position of the ball from the mind.

Obviously, every move we make needs coordination for the move to be effective.