The whole concept of growth is that it is uncomfortable. Growth sounds cool on paper – “I get older, I drive a car, I make money, I get stronger, I buy a house, I do work, I get a promotion”. But to accomplish all those things, you have to do the uncomfortable work in between to make it happen – practicing to drive, working with employers, saving money, working out, saving for that big purchase,…
If you’re good with failing, you’ll be great with succeeding. But if you’re only good at succeeding, failure will come awfully hard if you’re not ready for it. Failure is what makes the path to success great and that much more enjoyable. If only you can see it that way if only you can be comfortable with the miss-steps and screwups that happen along the way.
When we get stressed, we forget what it was that made us a success. We go back to what is easy, and what doesn’t require effort. We go back to the things that might have worked a long time ago but don’t work now. The only way to break through is to not rely on what you did before but to set a new default of what you are trying to get better at, what…
Oh yeah, completely wrong, you could have everything going wrong around you and still make something happen. But don’t confuse that with skill in execution, it’s all your practice, repetition, and focus that made something good happen at that moment where it was wrong and you pushed the needle in your favour.
You never know when the timing is right, it just happens. The more you practice, the better your timing gets (hence the same 1,000 kicks vs 1,000 different kicks). Timing is about repetition practice and most importantly focus. The more focused you are, the better you are at getting to your end goal (whatever that might be). But without those things, the timing will never be right – because we never know when it actually…