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If You Want To Get Better At What You Are Doing, Don’t Ignore These Quotes

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

You will get better at what you are doing if you are willing to practice every day, If you are willing to do the work.

Remember, to get the prize, you must first do the work.

Start where you are. Do not make it too hard for yourself. Getting better at something is not about making it too hard. It is about paying attention to it.

Makt it simple. According to Dr. Eric Maisel, ‘Simple doesn’t mean static. Simple doesn’t mean doing exactly the same thing each day. Simple means doing the thing appropriate to that day’s practice.’

‘One kind of playfulness? Improv! Maybe that’s what your practice needs today, some improvisation!’

‘The content of your practice needs to be, not some simulation, substitute, or likeness.’

‘There is no ‘way’ to practice. There is only honesty and intention. Let your practice honestly and intentionally serve your desire to live your life purposes.’

‘You decide. Who else should?’

‘You must decide on the contours of our practice. And you must decide to actually practice. You can’t begin to practice without deciding to practice.’

‘You can spend an intense hour. Or an intense minute. Either way, make it intense!’

‘Kneading the dough? That requires your presence. Cutting the onions? That requires your presence. Whatever your presence is, be present.’

‘Is your daily practice a private one? It could be. But it doesn’t have to be. Practice in public, if that’s what your heart desires. Trust yourself to understand what your practice requires!

‘Inspiration may come. Let’s hope so! But perspiration first.’

‘Should you read yet another business book? Or actually spend time every day building your business?’

‘We may not be able to do a lot, but we can do what we can every day.’

‘Can you run away from all that chaos and noise? Wouldn’t it be better to stop and create some silence?

Do not just read these quotes. Use them to change how you do your work.

As always, you are more, not less!

Further Reading:

Eric Maisel, PhD (2020). The Power of Daily Practice: How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals

How To Make Things Work For You, Not Against You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Talking about what you want, what you are going to do, it is not enough. It is not going to take you to where you want to go. Talk is cheap. But it doesn’t have what you are looking for. It can’t give you growth. It can’t help you get better. It can’t lift you up.

If you just talk, then you are going to remain where you are. But if you take action, you are a moving boat. You are a ‘sailboat.’ You are not ‘a stationary sailboat.’ You are moving closer to your dream. You are challenging yourself. You know what you want. And you are working to make it happen.

You know that no one is going to make it work for you. You are not waiting for people to give you permission. You are already on your way to where you want to be. You do not have time to waste anymore. You are already making a difference with people who are changing the world, who are changing their lives.

If you want growth to come to you, you must do what growth wants. Because growth is not going to happen if you don’t want to work. If you want to work, growth will come to you. But if you do not want to work for what you want, you are just wasting your time.

Don’t do that to yourself. You have what it takes to change your life, to change your world. But if you don’t put yourself to work, nothing is going to work for you. Remember that ‘faith that isn’t experiencing by doing what it has learned is a boat tied to the dock.’

You are not ‘tied to the dock!’