Wilkinson Wisdom

Although England may have failed to win the Rugby World Cup a second time running, there was much to be learned about leadership, management and the psychology of sport from the tons of media output that left the tournament. Here's something from Jonny Wilkinson writing in The Times just before the final...
"In fact, as good an example of living for the moment, accepting what is happening around me and trying not to worry is the very game itself. I will go out there today stuffed with nerves and the anxiety to do well. But there is a saviour; I find solace in the whistle going because my mind is then living in the moment.
The problem for me has always been worrying about what I did in the past, analysing everything and then concerning myself with what may happen in the future. The course of a rugby match is one of the few times when all this is lost - you are living each second, you are using your brain, but it is so intense. You are working on instinct, you have not got time to think. The mind clears itself. Being in the game is the epitome of living in the moment."

Wise words indeed!