Remember those folks in Las Vegas that I helped get back in shape by being their achievement coach? Before we started, I took them aside and started laying out their strategy. "I'm going to tell you something. You've got four months of working out three to four days a week ahead of you, and some of you have not worked out for quite a while. The process that you're about to go through-well, it's going to suck. I'm not going to sit here and try to fool you. You're going to want to give up. It is just natural."
It was crucial that they hear the truth with no sugar coating. I continued, "I'm telling you this right now so that when you experience the discomfort, you already expected it because James told you."
"I do not want you to focus on the process of walking on the treadmill or eating this food over that food. I would like you to focus on the end result-how you are going to feel when you are finished with this program. In the end, maybe you lost a lot of weight or got in better shape, and now you feel better. Whatever end result you envision, that's where your focus should be."
This applies to any achievement. Before you begin striving for your goal, you must first choose your focus. You can focus on how you're going to feel when you achieve it, how you're going to benefit, or even how those around you are going to benefit.
2. Practice Does Not Make Perfect. There is an old myth floating around that I need to dispel right now. It is that practice makes perfect. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. If you practice incorrectly-if you repeat the incorrect actions for anything you're trying to accomplish-you will develop incorrect habits that will ultimately produce incorrect outcomes. Remember this:
Correct Actions = Correct Habits = Correct Outcomes
When I played high school basketball, they were going to integrate the 3-point shot line into the game by my senior year. I wanted to get really good at it, so during my sophomore year, I painted a 3-point line on the basketball court by my house. From that day forward, on any given afternoon you can find me on the court practicing 3-pointers to get my legs and my arms strong and to learn how to shoot from that distance.
I remember the first month or so out there. I was shooting and shooting and shooting, and I was bricking everything. I was throwing up countless bricks you'd have thought I was constructing a house.
My neighbor, Mr. Mason, always sat on the porch swing in his lawn and watched me. One day after my millionth brick in a row, I exploded. "I give up. I cannot do this." I threw the ball down the street, and took my shirt off and threw it down too.
Mr. Mason witnessed my outburst. He walked over and said, "Hey Malinchak, come here. I will tell you why you are missing your shots. I've been watching you for the last month, every day out here. You are working hard, and in theory you are working smart, but you are not working right."
"What do you mean? Mr. Mason were you ever a player?"
"No I never played in my life."
"Were you a coach?"
"No I never coached."
I was thinking to myself, how in the world is this guy who never played or coached going to tell me why I am missing my shots?
It was crucial that they hear the truth with no sugar coating. I continued, "I'm telling you this right now so that when you experience the discomfort, you already expected it because James told you."
"I do not want you to focus on the process of walking on the treadmill or eating this food over that food. I would like you to focus on the end result-how you are going to feel when you are finished with this program. In the end, maybe you lost a lot of weight or got in better shape, and now you feel better. Whatever end result you envision, that's where your focus should be."
This applies to any achievement. Before you begin striving for your goal, you must first choose your focus. You can focus on how you're going to feel when you achieve it, how you're going to benefit, or even how those around you are going to benefit.
2. Practice Does Not Make Perfect. There is an old myth floating around that I need to dispel right now. It is that practice makes perfect. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. If you practice incorrectly-if you repeat the incorrect actions for anything you're trying to accomplish-you will develop incorrect habits that will ultimately produce incorrect outcomes. Remember this:
Correct Actions = Correct Habits = Correct Outcomes
When I played high school basketball, they were going to integrate the 3-point shot line into the game by my senior year. I wanted to get really good at it, so during my sophomore year, I painted a 3-point line on the basketball court by my house. From that day forward, on any given afternoon you can find me on the court practicing 3-pointers to get my legs and my arms strong and to learn how to shoot from that distance.
I remember the first month or so out there. I was shooting and shooting and shooting, and I was bricking everything. I was throwing up countless bricks you'd have thought I was constructing a house.
My neighbor, Mr. Mason, always sat on the porch swing in his lawn and watched me. One day after my millionth brick in a row, I exploded. "I give up. I cannot do this." I threw the ball down the street, and took my shirt off and threw it down too.
Mr. Mason witnessed my outburst. He walked over and said, "Hey Malinchak, come here. I will tell you why you are missing your shots. I've been watching you for the last month, every day out here. You are working hard, and in theory you are working smart, but you are not working right."
"What do you mean? Mr. Mason were you ever a player?"
"No I never played in my life."
"Were you a coach?"
"No I never coached."
I was thinking to myself, how in the world is this guy who never played or coached going to tell me why I am missing my shots?
About the Author:
James Malinchak, Showcased on ABC's Hit TV Program Secret Millionaire, is recognized as by many industry experts as the World's #1 Big Money Speaker Coach and Trainer. For Free Video Trainings concerning how to receive money to speak and the ways to turn into a speaker trainer, visit www.BigMoneySpeaker.com.
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