Practice Makes Permanent

Your thoughts can be limiting, or they can be empowering. It is up to you to decide which it will be.

It takes practice to self-coach yourself. It takes consistency to self-coach yourself. It takes intention to self-coach yourself.

We can get frustrated because we are coaching ourselves through the same limiting thoughts and beliefs that we were working through last year. Yet sometimes that is just part of life.

It takes intentionality.

It takes work.

It takes effort.

It takes persistence.

It takes consistency.

As Paul wrote in his second letter to the church of Corinth, “We take every thought captive” (2 Cor 10:5).

New, positive thoughts do not just happen on accident.

New, positive thoughts can happen with noticing the negative loop we are beginning to spiral upon, and then interrupting that loop with new positive thoughts.

Everything begins in our head.

I am reminded of my high school geometry teacher, Mr. Rufener.

He was known for his dad jokes before they were called dad jokes!

He would ask us, "Does practice make perfect?"

We would answer, “Yes,” because that is what we had always heard.

He would say, “No. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect.”

Can you see the difference?

Practice makes permanent.

When we repeat the negative mental loop every time we are rejected by a new lead, we could let ourselves feel defeated.

Or...

...we could interrupt that negative thought and correct it with a positive thought that we are one call closer to finding the next sale.

Perfect practice looks like doing things the right way every single time.

How we practice is how we will play in the game.

If we practice at a low level of excellence, then we will play at a low level of excellence because that is how we have trained ourselves.

Yet when we practice at a high level of excellence, we will play at a high level of excellence because that is how we have trained ourselves.

What is your level of training going to show when it is game time?

How are you training?

How are you practicing?