Lessons from the Olympics
May 7, 2010 at 1:15 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentLesson from the Olympics – taken from newsletter by Leslie Charles
It would be helpful to identify two enduring lessons that can benefit us all. The first involves time: in watching these incredible athletes, we see the results of a LOT of hard work. It helps to remember that behind those incredible performances are hundreds of thousands of hours of concentrated practice. It requires an incredible amount of repetition if you want to take a skill to world class level.
Here’s the other lesson: If you do something every day (from minutes to hours) you build a habit that gets “wired in” and is always there when you need it.
The secret to resilience, mental hardiness, and staying power is the practice of positive thinking. From visualization to positive affirmation and then to application or practice, over and over again, with a few tweaks in between: that’s what it takes. Yes, the discipline is difficult but the skill building endures over time.
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