TIPS FOR SUCCESS
PRACTICE
“Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” – G.D. Boardman
For a long time, David Beckham had been among the most famous and highly paid footballers in the world. Later in his career, when he played in the USA’s Major League Soccer (MLS), he could still command colossal sums in wages.
Apart from his brand attraction, it has been pinpoint crosses and trademark free kicks from Beckham which had been his biggest assets on the field of play.
He was once asked how he always got his free kicks just about right almost every time, to which he replied, “I stay behind every day after every day’s team training to practice free kicks over 200 times from every conceivable angle.” What a killer schedule.
He even had a goal post installed in the compound of his sprawling mansion. What would you be ready or willing to put yourself through in order to be great or excel in your line of duty?
“When we consistently do the very best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller
Great men all have habits and things they do over and over again and which come to be so much a part of them. Most of what we do; the way we walk, talk, think, spend our money and relate to people is habitual.
Your behavior in all facets of your life rests on an accumulation of all your experiences since childhood. Habit is, indeed, either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Good habits keep on enhancing and enriching your life. Bad ones act as stumbling blocks to your life and happiness.
The good news is that habits are learnt and can be therefore be unlearned and changed by practice. Many people with negative and destructive habits give excuses about them instead of doing what it takes to change them. You can change things if you want to.
Whatever thought or action you repeat long enough becomes a new habit. The key is practice. Which do you think is the most important skill for you and reaching your goals of personal development and career success-public speaking, writing, research, people skills, or information technology capability?
You can become dramatically better at all of these through practice alone.
Begin to do the things which a better man would do, and so earn their possession by practising them. In training yourself for promotion to the good class, by constant fixed times for practice, and times for specific acts, build your program around them.
Decide to become the kind of person you want by disciplining yourself to always act in ways that are consistent with your highest ideals. Key thought: You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. – Mike Murdock.
