Practice

You know Tony Stewart does it.  You know Tiger Woods does it.  You know Lebron and Kobe do it.  How can you get to be the best?  How can you get to be recognized?  How can you get what you want, if you don’t practice?

You know that you can’t.  You know when you don’t, you are settling for less.  And maybe you’re ok with that.  I don’t have time, I have something else to do, I don’t feel like it.

You need to practice, to educate yourself and to study to develop and improve.  You just don’t need to do it in one day.  You don’t need to hit a thousand golf balls or shoot a thousand baskets a day.  But you do need to spend time to develop your passion – even if it is just five minutes per day.

You can carve out five minutes per day, can’t you?  That’s nearly one-half hour per week.  If you blew each day off  you’d have nothing.  Zilch.  Nada.  You can work on figuring out when to study or practice skills, just remember to start small.

The double secret probationary key to making this work, is to approach practice, education and study with the attitude that you will get something out of it, you will learn and it will help you to be the best.

You wanna know something else.  Come here a second, get a little closer.  See that guy over there?  And the one over there?  And all the guys at that company and that company over there?  Those guys aren’t spending five minutes a day.  They have no desire to get better.  Do you think you have a leg up on them?  You bet you do!

You know this.  You know that there aren’t that many people in your profession who are really serious about their career development.  This gives you an edge.  But it also gives you the chance to be an example to others who do want to get better but just need a little encouragement.

Five minutes a day.  Not a thousand baskets.  Five minutes a day.