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5. Enjoy the triumphs, but remember to ponder and learn from the disasters
6. Resist letting a particular triumph or disaster label you or define your life - don’t be the one who is known for just that one incident or experience (whether positive or negative)
7. Take the first step in getting closer to more of the people who are important in your life
8. Specifically make friends with your managers, your customers and the key decision makers at your place of work. Jameson took time to make friends with powerful people
9. Make sure your managers and customers know that you are on their side - they will hopefully then be on your side during the good times and the bad times. Again this was Jameson’s experience
10.Finally, strive to always see your successes and failures as just parts of a rich pattern of life experiences that are continually refining you. Experiences that are making you a better person, a better employee, a better family member
People who seem to live a charmed life
Maybe, like me, you have met people who seem to live a charmed life. Only good things happen to them. Maybe you also know people who feel that their lives have been stricken for all time, by
tragedy, by ill health and by pain - Leander Starr Jameson experienced all these things.
In conclusion - I hope we may all come to understand, and that we will help others to understand, that triumphs and disasters really are imposters if we let them persuade us that our lives are blessed or cursed. Rather, I hope that we can see our lives as a journey and on our travels we can take a moment to (1) reflect on our progress and (2) be a blessing to others.
You can join the hundreds of other groundsmen and greenkeepers who have been helped by Pitchcare to become key players in their own organisations.
For more details, including how to book your place on all Pitchcare workshops, visit the website
www.groundsmantraining.co.uk or contact Chris Johnson, Pitchcare’s Training Development Manager at
chris.johnson@
pitchcare.com
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son.
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This means that you may be able to access funding for training your groundstaff, so they can learn how to renovate your pitch and get it in tip-top condition for next season. Courses include:
Cricket Pitch Maintenance Winter Sports Pitch Maintenance Bowls Greens Maintenance Supervisory Essentials
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