MIRI : The 62nd SMK St Columba Annual Sports Meet was held at Miri Open Stadium on Tuesday.
It was declared open by Telang Usan assemblyman Dennis Ngau.
Speaking at the function, Dennis said the involvement of students in sports is very important because it forces them to be self disciplined.
He said was it not for the discipline to train everyday, probably the students would not be able to represent their respective school houses in the championship and eventually other higher level championships.
Dennis pointed out that possession of this character of high discipline brought a lot of benefits to a person specially students, therefore, the reason why self-discipline is the factor that could be possessed by a person.
He said the factors of discipline has the following meanings – determine, responsible, orderly, cooperative, loyal, respect for leaders, wise, law-abiding, self-control, obedient, patient and considerate.
In a survey of 10,000 successful persons in the world, Dennis said, 15% of success is due to technical training and 85% is due to personality and the primary personality trait identified as attitude.
Positive attitude, he said, comes from self-discipline and having high discipline will determine a person attitude. And the greatest day in a person life is when we take responsibility of our attitude and the day they truly grow up.
According to Dennis, where success is measured people are not measure in inches or how much money they have or college degrees or family background, instead they are measured by the size of their thinking.
He said successful people all started by thinking big and how big we think determines the size of our accomplishment.
He also said the progress of a society was often closely associated with the performance in the field of sports.
For example, he said, Malaysia is now known by the world because of the grandeur of Datuk Lee Chong Wei in badminton, Datuk Nicol David in the field of Squash and Pendelela Renong in diving.
