Practice Makes Perfect!
The more you practice, the more proficient you become.
Just like everything else in life, the more you practice toward results, the more proficient you become.
At first, the practice is a royal pain in the behind, and you experience a healthy dose of frustration when you don’t see immediate results that you had hoped for.
You must practice the basic fundamentals of achieving results if you want your goal to be achieved.
Low achievers have a kind of blasé, laissez-faire attitude, when it comes to preparation. While high achievers prepare well and practice in advance to perform at their very best, low achievers are satisfied with being second-rate. They have forgotten or may not know what a first-rate result is and that it consists of hours of preparation and practice.
The practice range is where your skills are refined, honed, dissembled and eventually reassembled.
Tags: Everything Counts, Gary Ryan Blair, high achievers, perfectionist, practice
5 Responses to “Practice Makes Perfect!”
David Corbin July 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Green and Growing or Ripe and Rotting…. and we’re never standing still. Gary, you’re spot on. True joy and happiness comes from feeling that our actions are in synch with our goals. That’s where your first book comes in… where you have the reader take a virtual ‘tour’ of their own life goals. Then, with these goals in mind, we take inventory of where we’re at in our actions toward these goals- scale of 1-10 (mastery). Accentuating the positive (those over 7) and Illuminating the negative (4 and below) and closing the gaps. Not rocket science.
Thanks for doing what you do GB. Keep it real! DMC.
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Caroline August 10th, 2009 at 9:53 am
You are so right – practice, or deliberate practice, does make perfect. Fab site, with lots of deeply inspirational stuff. Many thanks – I’ll be back!
jonathan figaro August 18th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Practice can only create perfection. Without practice, laziness, insecurity, and low self esteem begins to arouse. Excuses become the norm, mixed with blame and anger. Taking action consistently will lead any individual to the success they deserve.
David | ilcantone.com September 25th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Yes, practice is essential to improve our skills but to become great in what we do we need to work towards excellence. This is the key, work hard towards excellence.
Great post with a powerful message: practice to become better at what you do.
Jen of Smart Goals October 6th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Very inspiring, thanks for posting this. In addition, practice makes us more “human”. We practice because we fail; we don’t always get it right the first time. This makes us more aware of our strengths and weaknesses.