If I have the Time (and maybe also the Money)...

• Enroll again finish my studies and earn a diploma.
• Take a short course in electronics or automotive as an additional skill.
• Take up cooking lessons to learn how to cook my favorite dishes.
• Take up programming lessons
• Take up formal guitar lessons
• Visit my old school and donate something that it needed
• Take up seminar in starting one's own business
• Visit and meet my relatives and old friends
• Write a book about my interests, especially in sports
• Have our own tennis court
• Teach my children how to play tennis
• Enroll my family for a swimming lesson
• Hold a reunion of my family in our old house
• Take my family to a vacation in another province (or country)
• Take a trip or tour to another place on my own
• Take a trip or tour to another place with my son
• Take my wife for our second honeymoon

I listed here most of the things I plan to do once I stop working here. This will be some sort of a checklist and I will create another list of those which I have done later. Some of them really need just the time or the chance but the others would involve some amount of money. I will be adding some more as I come to think of it.

To be In The Zone

In one of our tennis sessions, I can’t believe it myself one time the way I play. I suddenly became so active and play aggressively well and produced some remarkably magnificent shots—running towards every ball and return it perfectly well. Then another friend commented, “He is just in the zone.” I suddenly become curious about the term.

Doing some research here are some definitions I found.

* - Being in the zone generally means being in a state in which your mind and body are working in harmony. You're calm yet energized, challenged yet confident, focused yet instinctive. "The zone really refers to when you're performing automatically,"

* - Being in The Zone is when everything goes right! You feel great! You’re on top of the world. Somehow you’re magically in the right place at the right time and everything is working out just like you want. To be in the flow is to be dialed into your natural state of clarity, presence and personal power. It's being free of tension, worry and draining emotions. It's living with a sense of ease, vitality and deep inner calm.

* - The Zone is the place of feeling good. It goes by many names. On a roll. In the flow. In a groove. Steamin’ Jivin’ Clickin’ Rockin’ or Cookin’. Many different names, one essence, one feeling.

As an athlete I always wanted to be in it. It feels great and the more you exert much effort the more it feels great and just the way they were mentioned above. As a spectator I also want to see an athlete or both competitors in such situation. This makes the game more exciting and could bring the crowd to wild cheers and thunderous applause.

In theory, it is possible that someone can practice and work out ways in order to be in the zone, the same way that some sports strategists also were able to develop ways to break the rhythm or put you out of it. In my opinion I hate it when a competitor use the latter in order to win matches. I always wanted to see athletes bring out the best of himself as well as of his opponent.