Writing assignment 5

"The team message" and "Core team value "

As everyone knows, teamwork is really important in any organizations. In particular, in case of team sports, teamwork is essential for winning the game. This time again cosidering about my baseball club from three aspects of "Establish a Shared Identity ", "Maintain the Bonds of Communication" and "Keep Everyone Informed, Involved, and Thinking About Solutions."

"Establish a Shared Identity "

In my team, we always sharing common identity. That is "win by team" It means that we win the game with the power of every members. Baseeball is typical team sports. Even if one person in the team give up winning the game, this team undoubtedly lose. In baseball, how work effectively as team is necessary rather than only one person is good at playing. A tiny disharmony between team mate change the outlook of win and loss. Therefore, the concept of "win by team" is essentisl for winning the game and sharing identification.

"Maintain the Bonds of Communications"

Esatablishing the shared identity is first step in creating unity, next, we have to maintain and reinforce this unity. It is impossible to maintain the unity of team without communication even if we could esatablish the shared identity. And so we communicate and encourage each others durning the game. This method is very useful to maintain the unity. When I in a pitcher's mound, my team mate walked to the mound to encourage me through communication such as "You are not alone, we take side with you". This cheering calm down me and be able to focus on batter. Even if a little communication, strength the unity of team.

"Keep Everyone Informed, Involved, And Thinking About Solutions.

To win the game, each member need to understand the role and have the responsibility to their task. As a measure to solve this problem, I think, meeting is realy important. Our team, after the game, is sure to have meeting immediately. This practice is really important to confirm the role. In particular, we focus on and reconsider about difficult judgeing situaition to seek the best solution through the conversation. In the meeting, we can exchange or share the each opinion.

These three aspects is essential for managing the team effectively.

Writing assignment 4

Stamina

I want to focus on "take care of yourself " and "summit fever" from the viewpoint of sports.

Firstly, I will show the imporatnce of managing the condition for keeping stamina. As a sportsman, I always concerning about my stamina. Of course, running and practice is necesarry to keep and gain the stamina. However, keep in good health is also important to maintain the stamina durning the practice or game. I think keeping good condition for a game is also part of practice for sportsman. If a player can't sleep or eat enough before the game, certainly, he can't exercise his competence sufficiently. I even, durning the game, eat something to keep the stamina. And also, immediately after the game, I ingest protein to cure the injured muscle. The player who can't manage condition by oneself is not a good player even if the player has the great competence.

Next, "Summit fever"

"Summit fever" is the psychological phenomenon that mountaineer can only concentrate on reaching the summit and all else fades from consciousness. In this situation, They can completly lose sight of their physical limits. It is very dangerous for our health. This psychological phenonmenon happen in the scene of sports game frequently. For example, the marathon runner, they don't think anything except goal. Even if they realize the limits of their ability, they keep running beyond limitation. It is true that cling to the goal or victory is important for sportsman, but it is too dangerous for our health and future. In fact, my friend lost the sight of limitation durning the baseaball game to win, after the game, he can't throw the ball the pitcher any more. It was pity that ruin his baseball life for one game. Therefore, taking care of oneself is necessary for spotsman.

Writing assignment 3

Optimism and Reality

I think, When we are in the face of adversity, having optimistic thought is important for success. In particular, having this quality is necessary for every organaization. Optimism have the potential to change the discourage adversity.

In fact, my baseball club was helped by introducing this concept. Optimism changed the ominous tide of team.

If I gave opponent a base on balls, our team mate cheerd me by optimistic phrase "It's allright. no problem." This encouragement makes me calm and vigorous. And also, optimism sparking the whole team atmosphere. Only optimistic one phrase can change the outcomes of win and loss. One day in the game, our team were two runs behind the other team in 7 inning. Our team atmosphere was filled with pessimistic thoughts. We were only concerning negatively "We must more than two runs to win." We were so impatient about score. Then, suddenly, someone said that "just two runs!! and we have no less than two innings!! it is easy for us, infact we could get the 3 runs in one inning!!" This thoughts turn negative into positive. And we could come from-behind victory. This is the good example to show effectiveness of optimism.

However, we are not only thinking optimisticlly but also stay in reality. As I said before, we cheer up each other when we are in adversity, but at the same time we dont forget to check the situation of game. We analyze the situstion and consider how to win the game. Just having optimistic view is not enough. Searching practical solutions is necessary for deal with stark reality.

As I mentioned previously, to solve the adversity, we have to acquire the way to look in two directions "optimism and stay in reality" at the same time.

What is my sentence?

This assignment is really diffcult. I' ve never considered deeply about myself.

And I have not clear vision about my future.

For now, my sentence is "He is honest in himself and he lives life as he like."

This is my sentence at now, but sentence will change with my life.

writing assignment 2

When I considered my long-term vision and short-term objectives, I could not imagine and decide my future, ultimate goal of life. Then, I would like to consider about my baseball club.

Long-term vision

At present, ICU baseball club affliates to "New Tokyo college league" and our team long-term vision is promotion to 2A. This goal is very magnificiant and easy to imagine, and we practice everyday to achieve this long-term goal. This big goal motivate us but, at the same time, generate the difference of cognition about long-term vision.

It is true that "promotion to 2A" is good goal but this goal is ambiguous. Therefore, each person understand the meaning of "promotion to 2A" each way of thinking. These different point of view causing the gap of member. For example, the difference of commitment to the club. Some people thinking about club activity is the first priority of campus life, Other people thinking that club activity is just the one-part of campus life. This difference of passion to promotion will appear in the various approaches to the long-term goal, which in turn cause the discord of team.

Short-term objectives

To solve this gap of cognition, short-term objectives are effective. In our case, short-term objectives are different depends on position or the batting order of player. For example, 1st batter need to increase the on-base percentage and catcher analyze the game calmly. If each player fulfill the each short-term objectives, we could win the game and finally we can achieve our long-term goal. Long-term vision is pile of short-term objectives.

Deciding long-term vision is very important. When we decide the long-term goal, being ambiguous is not so good. Therefore, short-term objective is important to fill in the gap of difference of cognition. That is because short-term objectives are very clear and easy to think of process to achivement. However, if we only have short-term objectives, our motivation will disappear. we need two types of goal to motivate ourselves continuously.

In short, Long term goal and short-term objectives is interdepending.

writing assignment 1

When we got into the trouble, I think, the qualities that enabled us to solve the problem is "never give up" and clear-sighted(judging which one is better). These two qualities are very important in emergency. The first time I visited abroad was SEA program in Australia. I've never visited other country by then. Therefore, I was so confused when I got lost on the way home. Then I try to find a way to solve this problem. Firstly, I searched for the people who familiar with local. However, there was no people around there because it have got dark. And then, I changed the approach. Next, I retrned to the station to search the people. Yet again, There was no people who know how to get to my house. Then, I borrowed the telephone from station attendant to call my homestay family. After 30 minutes later, my homestay family picked me up at the station. Finally, I can reach home in safety. We can understand importance of being calm and clear-sighted from these tiny emergency. Even if we couldn't find the good solution, we must never give up searching another solution. And also, judging the situation is important to find the good solution. I think these two elements are necessary to pass through adversity. In particularly, these qualities are very important for the leader who has tken a team or organization. Whether organization working well or not is depends on theses qualities of leader.