Ability..........

Twenty-six small letters and twenty-six capital letters - just fifty-two in all and their combinations. Why suffer from poor handwriting all your life? In a matter of days, we can train our handwriting, knock this weakness off and enjoy the benefits of it for the rest of our lives,” said a handwriting trainer to a group of twelve-year-olds.

How often we meet people who keep cursing their fate for having studied in the regional language as the medium of instruction? With a year's formal training, they can learn the language they want to and knock that weakness off. How often people suffer the inconvenience of the driver not turning up for work!Immobile, despite the fact that an automobile is staring at them from their own garage. With a month's formal training, they can learn driving and knock a weakness off. Fear of public speaking is rated next only to the fear of death. Yet, through formal training, one can master public speaking in a matter of weeks.

When a weakness, a limitation, can be knocked off, why suffer it and let it incapacitate us for the rest of our life? How marvellous - invest some time in training, knock a weakness off and enjoy its benefits for the rest of your life! Life is actually simpler than what we think it is.

Formal, systematic training not only enables us to overcome our weaknesses and limitations, but also helps us to become better at what we are already good at.

Babies will eventually learn to walk, and then run. However, if they have to become athletes, they have to undergo formal, systematic training. Scribbling becomes writing under formal, systematic training.Talking becomes communication under formal, systematic training. Exercise under formal, systematic training becomes a wellness program. If you want to play the game of chess, learn it from anybody; but if you want to become a champion, then you'll need systematic coaching from a trained coach.

Nothing like our grandmother's remedies, yet don't we rush her to a doctor when she is sick? There is no substitute for formal, systematic training. Often, the difference between good, better and the best lies in the quality of training.

Whether it is painting, music, dance or for that matter any other art form that you want to be good at, no matter what your age is, undergo formal training. Yoga, meditation or sports, if it is not meant to be a mere pastime, undergo formal initiation with a trained coach. Take a break from the CEO's chair and take up formal professional education once again - go back to school and then come back to the seat. See the difference.

Ability when subjected to systematic training becomes proficiency. There is no other way to be the best.Nothing like growing in the right hands.