| How to Get Better May 23rd, 2017 by Bill Boyajian |
The old adage that “practice makes perfect” needs some serious reconsideration. Practice is great if we’re practicing the right things. Unfortunately, most of us keep practicing the wrong things and wonder why things don’t get better. So instead of “practice makes perfect,” we should think in terms of “practice makes permanent.” It’s particularly true in business. We keep doing the same things over and over again somehow believing that things will change. We wonder why business doesn’t improve, why employees don’t get along, and why we fail to make bigger sales. But we don’t analyze why these things occur, and we often do nothing to try to change the outcomes. We also try to maintain the status quo, somehow believing that things won’t change. Things always change, but they seldom change for the better unless we take action. We want to lose weight but we don’t change our eating habits. We want to improve our golf scores, but we do little to improve our swing. We want to read more books, but can’t get started with the one at the top of our stack.
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If this sounds futile, it is because we need to practice those things that make us better, not just permanent, let alone perfect. Practice won’t make us perfect at anything because perfection is an unattainable goal. But practicing the right things in business and in life will make us better. And better is what we want.- Home
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