Practice makes perfect is another one of those lies we were told as kids. I practiced golf like crazy growing up and yet my game, especially my swing, is miles from perfect. Here’s why…I practiced swinging a club that was too heavy and too long. I practiced dropping the club at the top of my swing, and letting my weight transfer beyond the inside of my right foot. I practiced bad habits with such commitment that they became engrained in my muscle memory. I got really good at grooving some really bad swing disciplines. Here’s the real truth…perfect practice makes perfect.
Perfect practice make perfect. Now I get it. We are made to be perfectionists. We are made to exhaust ourselves trying to live mistake free, perfect lives. Or…are we made for a purpose? And as we make our CORE purposes our focus we gain energy to keep going, and going and going.
Purpose practice is a tidy little village with lots of activity and hustle yet all the while calm and peaceful. I believe, purpose practice leads to our dream. When you and I practice with a purpose, and that purpose aligns with our CORE we get pretty fired up! Now practice has meaning…something I’ve been searching for all along. As we leave perfect practice for the village next door, we find ourselves calm and peaceful while at the same time focused and even a bit intense. We are ready to go to work and get better. We are ready to produce results that we didn’t think possible. For the first time we are starting to understand that “done so” isn’t just bad English, it’s a recipe to move us in the direction of our dreams. Building sustainable results will take hard work in large doses. Hard opus we can sustain while we perspire, hard labor we will disdain, as we tire. Slow down and reflect.
If you want to better understand done so – check out Blood and Thunder, by Hampton Sides.
BUILT TO LEAD 