Repetition and Strength

In any business, one of the biggest challenges is to ignore the basic elements which are necessary in your current profession. The foundation of all success should always be applied. Professional athlete’s are under constant pressure to perform, every game,meet or competition the basics must always be in order. Same holds true with and profession, carpenter, electrician, secretary, sales, doctor, lawyer, financial services, all must apply the basics each day to be consistent and successful. The workplace is not the only time we should employ these principals, each of us should apply basics in every day life.

This is an exciting time of year, the Superbowl is here teams compete to find a slot for the championship! Yet when you study how they train for the ultimate game you’ll find each team utilizes the same principles. Yes a game plane with offense and solid defense is a good strategy, out perform the opponent and your chances for success are increased. We hear about the teams practicing and how hard they are training for that game, however there’s always a basic plan each time they play. Keep the basics in order.

It’s been said repetition is the mother of all skill. A weight lifter gets stronger with each rep, a runner develops better time with each run, which makes sense, one challenge with this strategy is what about the mind? Physical strength is developed over time. But how do we develop mental strength? We’ve all heard the phrase mind over matter at some point, however how is that developed?

I was at the gym this week working out and through out my workout all I could hear was a guy telling people what they were doing wrong, at first I didn’t pay attention to what he way telling others, to be honest I never even looked at him, ever ignore something you don’t care about? you know it’s there in the back ground somewhere. You just choose to let it go! Never crossed my mind, however when I did look at him…Well let’s just say he was not in top shape…It caught me off guard, in some sense you’d think if a person was giving advice they’d have success at that which they were telling you.

Not that afternoon, it was quite clear this guy was giving out bad info. What is even more surprising was how many people were listening and following what he was saying. If you watch a professional weight lifter study how they workout, each rep concentrates on a muscle group, the reps are full exercising and concentrating on the form…Make sense. Basics are applied to each rep. Over time the muscle grows larger. Sometimes we get busy and don’t think about how keeping the basics in mind builds strength. It develops mental strength. When we vary from basics we loose our focus, and become scattered. Success is much harder to achieve as we get out of shape. A marksman can only hit his target with practice each day over time is able to stand further and further away as his skill is developed. However if they don’t stay consistent and practice every day the target is harder to hit.

Truth is no matter what you do in life, figure out what the basics are and repeat them over and over, this develops mental strength with each passing day, if you find it’s not working change it, if it fails change it again, the basic foundation for success is to be consistent. Over time you get better. You deserve success and prosperity in life, we were all brought here to live a life of mastery. Best way to achieve greatness is to develop a steady repetition in anything you do in life!