According to John Troup, writing in the USA today, “The Average Olympian trains four hours a day at least 310 days a year for six years before succeeding. Getting better begins with working out every day… Given the equal talent, the better-trained athlete can generally outperform the one who did not give a serious effort, and is usually more confident at the starting block. The four years before an Olympics, Greg Louganis probably practiced each of his dives 3,000 times. Kim Zmeskal has probably done every flip in her gymnastics routine at least 20,000 times, and Janet Evans has completed more than 240,000 laps. Training works, but it isn’t easy or simple. Swimmers train an average of 10 miles a day, at speeds of 5 mph in the pool. That might not sound fast, but their heart rates average 160 the entire time. Try running up a flight of stairs, then check your heart rate. Then imagine having to do that for four hours! Marathon runners average 160 miles a week at 10 mph.”
Although most of you reading this will never become Olympic athletes, nor do you want to, you an become world class in whatever you do by putting in the disciplined effort to excel at your chosen trade, craft, of profession. To win at whatever game you choose to play, you need to be willing to pay the price.
Taken from: “The Principles of Success” by Jack Canfield
I have a conflict my dear readers!
Please help me understand! I find myself often meeting people who say they want to succeed, they want to grow, change the world, give their children the best they can, etc, but during the course of the week, and sometimes during the course of the same sentence, they drop something like, “but I just don’t know how that’s going to happen”, or “it is so hard”, or “this Internet thing is not for me…” Does that happen to you? Do you meet people like that? I say this with love, but we either TRAIN or COMPLAIN.
Be WARNED!
My best advice to you is to TRAIN and TRAIN until you become an expert in whatever you want to master. If we all train and work with excellence (especially if we do it as a team), we can be or achieve anything we want! Sound impossible? I am living proof of it. And this applies to our business, school, house work, prayer, cooking… everything.
Did this wake up something inside of you to give ALL your heart to EVERYTHING you do in your life? Dani Johnson taught me that whatever you do, you must do with a spirit of excellence, whether it is being a spouse, a parent, a business owner, an employee, a spiritual leader, a coach, an athlete. You will not be promoted through life if you work half-heartedly or expect the easy way out.
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