GET MOTIVATED WITH DPM PERFORMANCE! blog ed 23

Friday night I had the pleasure of being a guest at the Steve Waugh Medal for the NSW Blues and Breakers player of the year awards.

It was an awesome experience to be in the same room as many past and current legends of cricket - Richie Benaud, Bob Simpson, Mark Taylor to name a few, and my all time favourite player - Steve Waugh.

The awards were scooped by Simon Katich, who if you have been following the domestic cricket season at all, you would probably know that he had his best season ever scoring over 1500 runs in the 4 day version of the game alone.

To put his season into comparison, the bloke that polled 2nd in the medal count failed to score even half the amount of points that Katich did.

Why am I telling you all of this?

If you have no interest at all in cricket, don't drop off to sleep yet, there's a powerful lesson to take out here.

Katich was dumped from the Australian Test team about 3-4 years ago.

People thought he was washed up. Well the so called experts did anyway.

But someone forgot to tell Simon Katich that he was a has been.

He is no spring chicken (in his early 30's, so not long to go in his career) but he refused to give in.

He worked his butt off to have a season like that.

He broke record after record in season 2007-08, even scoring 300+ runs in one innings.

Last week he was rewarded with selection in the Australian team for their overseas tour coming up.

How's that for persistence?

Put in the hard yards, no matter how many people write you off and Simon Katich is living proof that the rewards will eventually come your way.

Powerful lesson indeed.

What's your excuse when you feel like quitting?

Fire UP!