Professional athletes are some of the most dedicated and committed people in the world. This is why I love to read autobiographies by these people. I find it so interesting to learn about their story, struggle and never ending persistence when pursuing their dream. What is something we could all learn from professional athletes? Performance is impacted by practice; practice needs to be perfect and repeated often. What does this mean? Practice is the preparation you take before taking part in an activity in which you are ultimately trying to gain some desired result. Think about what this means. It is easy enough to see how practice would affect your performance and your results. Ask yourself this: Are you practicing in your life to get better and improve your quality of life?
What is perfect practice? In order to practice perfectly and get the results you desire you must do three things, which are:
1. Plan - Write down a list of things you would like to work on. This list is different for everyone but it basically covers things having to do with personal development. Whether it be confidence, people skills, stopping procrastination, starting a new work out plan or overcoming a fear. Write down what you would like to work on and the action you plan to take in order to change the current results you are getting. Be thorough and look at every aspect of your life.
2. Do - Get into action! Do the things you wrote down in your plan, whether it be getting yourself out there more, making that phone call to a prospect you have, putting yourself into situations you may not be familiar with in order to push yourself to overcome your fears. Maybe you are finally starting out a work out regimen or you have decided to dedicate some time every evening to reading ten pages of a good book. Whatever it is you planned, get into action and do it!
3. Review - Take time to review and reflect back onto the action you took; be observant. Did you get the result you wanted to? Is there something you could have done differently to improve it? It can be very humbling to learn from your mistakes, but also foolish if you choose not to. Learn from your successes as well. Now that you see you are able to get the results you want if you just take the correct preparation, you will become that much more confident and READY to grab ahold of your goals and see them through to completion.
There are some of you reading this who are naturally talented; perhaps you don't have many things that are holding you back. Athletes are not the only people that can be naturally talented. Perhaps you are already confident, professional and proficient in carrying out tasks. What does this mean? Naturally talented people usually spend more time in the "doing" part of this process than planning or reviewing, if they do it at all. Although these people will be able to obtain some success, they are also limiting their success as well. How is this? By just doing you are not learning, which, in turn, causes you to not grow, and affects your progression with the results you would ideally like to get. If you know that you have the talent, intelligence and confidence to reach some of your goals, why stop there? Why don't you accomplish all of your goals? Fulfill all of your dreams and aspirations? If you plan, do, and review, you will surely see that you can have the results you seek and the life you want to lead. Have a wonderful day and remember there isn't anything that is impossible, or out of reach. You can improve your practice and your performance, and today is a great day to start!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
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