Practice Makes Perfect

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

-- Elbert Hubbard

The following is from Steve Chandler:

One of the things people always tell you growing up is, "practice makes perfect."  Well, practice doesn't make perfect if you're practicing the wrong thing; it just reinforces the wrong way to do it.  

To succeed in business, you need to WAKE UP! Wake up to what works. What works is not a secret! It's not some intangible quality some people have and some people don't. You can learn to be successful in your business. It is teachable and learnable, and there's nothing mysterious about it at all.

That's a vital factor in your deciding to succeed. You must realize that if there are literally millions of millionaires, then the way to do it can't be all that mysterious.

But here's what stops most people: they personalize their failures. The minute their business gets frustrating, they wonder about their personal worth: do I have what it takes? People are soon making up all kinds of wild, untrue things about successful people. They think they have strange, unusual willpower and drive. They think they are lucky and connected. They think things that drive them deeper into low energy and low self-esteem.

Do not make up negative things about yourself if your business is struggling. It is not about you and your qualities. It is about your choices and level of understanding. Once you reach a new level of understanding about how businesses succeed, your business will also succeed. No matter who you are and what your genetics are and how your parents treated you. You can do this. But, you must choose to do it. You must decide to commit to it, and raise your level of consciousness and understanding, or it won't happen.

From Me:

I see it a lot with clients. Too many people have self-limiting beliefs that are not true, expectations that are based on their little world and thus lack the courage to choose the right actions. They spend too much energy and focus on blaming others. You cannot solve problems unless you take ownership of them. There are better ways to do things, but you first have to take action. Choose to not only seek those better ways, but the courage to implement the changes to better your company and your life.  

All the best, 

Rick Wallace