How you practice is more important than how often you practice. Starting at the age of 12, I sang in the shower. I would imagine myself to be a top singer mimicking the voices of my favorite female singers. My voice did never came close to them. Actually, that is not true. Family would cringe …
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The Practice Rule: Practice Alone Is Not Enough
How you practice is more important than how often you practice. “If you want to achieve mastery, you must learn to practice deliberately.” — Ken Sterling There was once a woman who went to another city for an urgent work leaving her two teenage boys with an assignment: To take care of her garden. She had been taking …
People Are Successful When They Are Disciplined
If you ever wonder how to be successful. How it is that people bridge who they are now to who they want to be, the answer is discipline. I repeat the basics of many things in my life. Healthy living. Effective communication. Writing. Teaching what I know to my colleagues. Learning from others,. Preparing great …
How To Use The 80/20 Law To Be Super Productive
Instead of improving everything (urgh, much effort), try to improve the tiny things that have a disproportionate impact. How many shoes do you have? 20% of your pairs will be worn 80% of the time. Want to work more efficiently? 20% of your time at work generates 80% of the value. Want more claps? 20% …
A Law Of Change That We Usually Forget
Change doesn’t happen in grand gestures. You change by making ordinary that which you once thought was impossible. And that is a slow ride. It is progress. The journey is not a 100 meters sprint. It is a marathon. It takes time for change to materialize in your life. There is a saying I like: …
Relying On Motivation For Your Work Is Like Relying On An Unfaithful Partner
Action begets motivation — not the other way around. “Show up for yourself, for your work, for your dreams, for your goals every day.” — Shaunta Grimes Hector Quintanilla, in an article he wrote about how to be motivated, says that motivation is like an unfaithful partner. You would not depend on such a person, would you? You have got …
How I Develop Daily Habits (A Guideline To Developing Daily Habits)
“I’m on a diet,” my friend said to me over lunch the other day. She is going to consciously choose what she is going to put inside her body from now on and she is going to make that her daily habit. And I thought of our habits, our daily habits per se. You know, …
Start Letting The Little Things Go (Inspirational Story)
In a classroom full of students, a professor asks: If you had $86, 400.00 and someone stole $10.00 from you, would you throw away the $86, 390.00 you still have to try and get your $10.00 back? Or would you just let it go? They all said they would let it go. Then he told …
Daily habits
Hi there, Hope you are having a great Saturday. For your weekend, I’ve an article on habits. Start implementing some of them and see how your life changes. Here are 20 daily habits that will yield exponentially in years to come.
One Priceless Lesson We Often Forget About Emptying Our Cup
There is a common story in Buddhism about a scholar who went to talk to a Zen master. The scholar spends most of the time talking over the master, basically showing off. The master eventually starts pouring tea for the scholar but doesn’t stop pouring. When the tea fills the cup and starts to overflow …