Practice

 

Practice

 

Malcolm Gladwell stated that to become an expert, you need to have 10,000 hours invested.  Those 10,000 hours are repeated acts of practicing a craft.  Thomas Edison tried 2,000 times before he perfected the filament in an incandescent bulb.  Failed attempts at something are merely practices for that victory. 

 

Look at a baby taking her first step.  Wobbly legs and lack of balance coupled with lots of falls.  That baby is determined to walk.  There is an innate desire to walk.  An insatiable desire to walk.  She practices holding on to tables, chairs, anything to stabilize as she moves about and then finally she takes that first step only to fall back onto her bottom.  She gets up and tries again.  Many days and weeks and even months pass and then she picks up the pace and turns those steps into runs.  Have you observed a toddler running for the first time?  He usually stumbles over his feet and loses his balance and falls again.  And gets up and tries it over and over.  Some take it to the next level and run as sport and then run professionally.  

 

Take running a marathon as an example.  You can’t get up one day and say you’re going to run a marathon this weekend without training for it.  Your body will shut down early on depending on your physical capabilities.  Marathon runners train for weeks and weeks on end slowly building up their stamina and distance in preparation for the big day.  They practice. They practice a lot!

 

Look at your goals. Look at your passion and purpose in life.  Are you practicing for that victory?  Are you working every day to achieve that life you desire?  Are you focused on the end goal?

 

Success is met with a lot of failures.  Those who succeed persevered through the failures continually practicing for that success.  Look at your life and write down those acts that you perform on a daily basis and have or are in the process of perfecting.  This could be forgiveness, your profession, a hobby, guilt, love, whatever it may be – look at those things you do on a regular basis and then look at your purpose, vision and goals in life and see if they match up.  If not, then make a conscientious change today to practice what is going to move you to your goals.

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Persistence

Persistance:

If you knew what 500 of the world’s wealthiest people knew - would you do as they do? 

 Napoleon Hill dedicates an entire chapter to Persistence. Your paradigms will shift when you consistently feed your mind with repetitive information. Hill describes the four steps that lead to the habit of persistence as:

 1) A definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment. 

 2) A definite plan, expressed in continuous action. 

3) A mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends and acquaintances. 
 

4)A friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose. 
 

These four steps will also lead to the mastery of fear, discouragement and indifference. Persistence is one of the common threads in the 500 wealthiest people’s repertoire - make it part of your daily practice.

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Perfection

 

 Perfection

Perfection is defined as a state of completeness and flawlessness.  Have you ever experienced perfection?  Does it exist?  Is it egotistical to think that we can achieve perfection? Is perfection a perceived concept and does it mean something different to others?  Most importantly, does it matter? In the grand scheme of life, does it matter if you achieve perfection and does it matter if you perceive something as having achieved perfection while someone else may disagree?

 

I ate a chocolate chip cookie the other day. In my opinion, the baker achieved perfection.  There was nothing wrong in my mind with that cookie.  It brought my taste buds to nirvana.  It was delicious and it made me so happy to eat it.  What a cookie!  Have you ever experienced that before?  That total feeling of perfection?

 

What keeps us from thinking or feeling that when we create something ourselves?  Most of us create something and then begin to tear it down mentally – which in turn tears down our confidence.  Is this innate in humans or just those of us lucky enough to think we aren’t good enough to ever achieve perfection.

This in itself is flawed thinking.  Our minds are perfect. How we perceive things is what becomes fuzzy.  We have experiences that cloud what is really there and what we perceive to be there.  Know that our minds are miracles and are perfect. Know that we are capable of incredible things. Urban legend says we only use 10% of our brain. Although physically we use all of our brain what we really are using is a small portion of our potential.  This keeps us from accepting and achieving perfection because we hold back a lot of our potential out of fear.

 

Perfection is not something that many people can accept – but is so worth the effort of exploring and understanding because it helps raise your awareness of what you truly are capable of and how you alone hold yourself back from reaching that level.

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Patience

 

 Patience

 

In our current times, we are surrounded by lightening fast technology, decision making, expectations, life…  Practicing patience in an era where it seems no one has any patience may feel counter-intuitive but patience allows us to slow down, calm our minds, show compassion, love and be loved. 

 

Being able to tolerate delays without feeling angry or frustrated is a necessary quality for our greater good. Easing our minds mentally also allows our bodies to physically function in a stress-reduced state, lowering our blood pressure, staving off illnesses and not compromising our immune systems.

 

So how does one practice patience when all things point in a different direction?

 

·   Persistence – the ability to keep moving forward even if you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Having faith that you are moving in the right direction without distraction brings a sense of inner peace.

·   Acceptance – believe that everything happens for a reason and even if the reason is illogical, it will be revealed at a later time when and if it is necessary. Whatever is happening now is the way it is.

·   Peace – having a sense of serenity and knowing that whatever distraction is happening, it will pass, as the now is what is meant to be.

 

Practicing patience alleviates the need for anger.  When we are impatient, we go through a gamut of emotions from irritation to impatience to anger and then rage.  Not only does patience help us achieve that which we desire, it helps us keep our anger in check.

 

The easiest way to practice patience is to count to 10 or take 10 deep breaths.  This creates space between an impulse reaction and an actual action step.  Practicing patience with others allows us to slow down and enjoy life with a new viewpoint.

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Plan

 

Imagine taking a trip without a map. Imagine building a structure without blueprints. Imagine going through life without a plan…

 

Do you drift through life letting life happen to you?  Does it give you angst when you know you have a higher purpose but don’t know where to start? 

 

Let’s get out of that existential funk and begin to craft the life we want to live.

 

Crafting a life plan is not a simple task and will not take an hour to complete.  You will need to commit to writing, meditating, contemplating and soul searching and expect this to take time.  If you have the ability, go somewhere for a weekend alone and work on this – camping, hotel, man cave… however you can be alone to work on your life’s plan.

 

Begin to define who you are. List out your roles – husband/wife, boss, worker, sister/brother, volunteer, citizen, friend, etc.

 

Prioritize these roles to determine which are most important.  Identify which roles cause the most stress and which are the roles you want to explore or give highest priority to.  By identifying these roles you will uncover patterns and those roles you want to eliminate.

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Organization

What does your closet look like?  Is it all tidy and colour coordinated and arranged by season?

 

If so, move on… And for the rest of us who have closets full of clothes from ten years ago that we will fit into one of these days – or that style will surely come back – or this is a classic – it will go with everything… You know who you are… or maybe you can’t even close your closet because the shoes are spilling out onto the floor…

 

Life is like a closet.  We hold onto past thoughts and emotions and we think if we hold on to it long enough and tight enough something will change – it will fit now – it will be all right – or we hold on because we can’t let go of the pain.  As one of my mentors says – let the dead bury the dead.

 

It is time to clean the closet and let go of all that dead weight. It is time to organize and compartmentalize all those things in that closet – put the shoes here, the belts there, the ties or purses in their spot and let’s now get rid of our high school prom dress.  It is time to make room for all the new things that we will acquire.  Make room…

 

When you organize anything, a closet, a drawer, a thought, a process, you suddenly find you have room.  Room for something new.  If you hold onto all that old stuff, there is no room for anything new.  No new relationships or job opportunities, or whatever it is you desire because you don’t have room.  You don’t have the bandwidth to take on anymore until you clear out all the old. 

 

We can’t change the past so why hold onto it?  Get out the duster and boxes and let’s release all that which we no longer need or want and let’s make room for all that which we desire.

Organize your life as you would a closet.  Remove the old and make room for the new.

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Multiple Sources of Income

 

Most of us earn income by trading time for money.  In other words we go to a job, work a set number of hours and are compensated for those hours.  So we trade our time for money.  Keep in mind everyone has the same number of hours in a day so if you work harder or longer, you can only work up to 24 hours a day as that is all there is.  So there is a limit to how much time you can trade for money.

 

Some of us earn income by trading money for money. An example would be investments that generate income through dividends and interest.  We are no longer trading our time for money because it is working for us while we do other things.

 

Few of us earn income through multiple sources.  This is how most people who have wealth build it. Multiple sources of income is having income coming in from different avenues that do not require trading time for money or trading money for money but a combination of many different ways to generate income.

 

The advantages to having multiple sources is that if one slows down, there are others to pick up the slack so it isn’t as painful as losing a job or losing on the stock market.  Another advantage to having multiple sources is that there is no longer a dependence on trading time for money, which is the slowest and most difficult way to build wealth. 

A third advantage is that new options become available to serve and do good work which is what most of us want.  No one lies on their deathbed and wishes they had spent more time in the office.  We all want more time with loved ones and to do those things that bring our souls pleasure such as giving and serving others. 

 

Creating multiple sources of income is not as hard as it sounds.  Start small – take out a piece of paper and draw a circle with a dollar sign in the middle representing your income.  Then draw a few circles around the page.  In one, put your job if you are employed.  In another put your investments like 401(k), then in a third think about how you can generate more income.  Are you in any affiliate programs?  Do you have a blog?  Do you give seminars on the weekends?  Do you sell products on the side?  Do you have a hobby? This is a place to start. 

 

You will find that as you begin to think about what you love to do, your creative mind will open doors to new thoughts and ideas.  Write all of these down.  Some will turn into viable income generators and others won’t.  If you don’t try, then you give up on the opportunities that are

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