Practice (Progress Cycle 4)

You have prepared yourself with each new cycle, gained more and more perspective, and directed your efforts by prioritizing. Now the only way to move forward is to get better at doing the thing you want to do.

Practice makes you better. Do it right and do it wrong, but do it again and again. Each time better, and each time gathering a more well rounded mastery of skills used in that activity. Skills range from being able to visualize and manipulate things in your imagination to dexterity in your fingers, balance to endurance, strength to flexibility, and grit to empathy.

Skills learned are not only used in that specific instance either, skills are transferrable. If you get really good at throwing a baseball, the body mechanics and understanding of trajectory will help you with activities as different as playing tennis or cracking a bullwhip.

Being good at practicing is also a skill. Knowing that your efforts will bear fruit, and learning the ways that your learn and retain the information most effectively. Practice practice.

Another really cool thing is, once you get good at practice, you have no more need for EXCUSES. If you find something you think you are unable to do, it is an opportunity to practice. If you are practicing and getting better, you don’t need to excuse yourself from anything, because you are gaining the ability.

Activity - Practice something and learn a new skill.

Suggestions

• turn one of your weaknesses into a strength.

• learn to whistle.

• draw a perfect circle.

• walk on your hands.