During the camp, we saw a movie called ROCKY 3. Its important while it was an exciting boxing movie, its also crucial for us to learn a thing or two from the movie that we can apply to our lives…
Rocky 3 has many lessons for us to reap from. Watch it if you may. But heres the gist of the story in short. Rocky, the world champion, loses to the a new arrogant rookie Clubber Lang. In addition, Mickey his trainer and mentor, dies. A fallen man, Rocky is short of inspiration and was a shadow of his former self. He turns to a fellow boxer he defeated before to train him for a rematch with Clubber. But he is simply going through the motions and does not put in much to his training, he does not have the heart. Apollo keeps going and does his best…no matter how hopeless the situation feels. The turning point comes when his wife, his rock, comes to confront him and asks him whats wrong and he says, he’s scared. He keeps saying to leave achieving to tommorrow…but his wife says ‘There’s no tommorrow’. After speaking with his heart, he is determined to make a comeback. And what a comeback that was, he changed his attitude, he put in his heart and soul and he shows what is famously known as the ‘Eye of the Tiger’, the will to succeed. Against all odds, he manages to knock out his adversary and reclaim the title.
And in it are some lessons for us…
Who is the Apollo in our lives and how are we responding to him? Or are we playing the Apollo and how can we do to people what Apollo brought out in Rocky?
Like boxing, life will give us a rematch in one way or another. Do we dwell on that championship match we lost or what are we going to put in that rematch?
in the movie, his brother in law, Paulie keeps putting Rocky down. Who is the Paulie in our life and how are we responding to him?
Rocky’s wife speaks to his heart and asks him to express himself and let go of his fears, to let it all out. Speak from the heart. Only when we are able to do so when we confront what is holding us back can we move forward.
Like she said, there is no tommorrow…cos Today is Yesterday’s Tommorrow….
Eye of the Tiger. Do we have that eye of the tiger Rocky displays in the latter part of the movie. For NLP learning, do also compare Rocky’s phsyiology from the earlier part of the clip to the later part….Going back, do we have the eye of the Tiger, the will and hunger to succeed? It far outweighs our talents and skill sets…Remember the mind can take you far … the rest is just your heart…
Last part is when Apollo gives his boxing suit for Rocky to wear out with pride. In this, we discern that sometimes it is the little things that we do, when we put our faith in others, when we plant seeds of confidence that we bring the best in them….and thus ourselves…..
ROCKY brings true reflection to life.
