Cricket
The New Zealand v South Africa semi final was truly one of the great ODI matches, I don't believe that the South Africans choked they just lost a great game of cricket, the biggest irony was the fact that it was a South African that effectively won the game for the kiwis.
On a personal level I am starting to play cricket again with 2 appearances so far in the nets, the bowling came back reasonably easy the batting was a different matter, I was struggling to get over the natural instinct to get out of the away of a hard object being thrown at me from 22 yards.
The other continuing cricket story is Kevin Pietersen, last week there was an excellent/excruciating interview by Pat Murphy with James Whittaker where it was obvious he would rather stick pins in his eyes than pick KP for England.
Now Pietersen has signed for Surrey hopefully the talking will now stop and he can get on with scoring some runs, he is going to have to score a lot of hundreds to get in the team, but fair play to him he has given up a huge IPL salary to play 2nd division cricket for Surrey.
Random acts of kindness
I have read many times that a random act of kindness makes you feel far better about yourself, and I do try it, it is surprising just letting some one out in busy traffic and getting a sign of gratitude does give you a boost.
List of achievements
On the theme of reading the same thing many times, I have also read that Harvard did a study and students who wrote down their aspirations were far more likely to become achievers in life than those who didn't, I am still not sure writing a list will guarantee success and if it does why don't Harvard mandate it for all their students. That said I am going to try and document a list for next week.
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