Nothing in life that is worthwhile just happens. If you want something you have to go out and pursue it. Practice makes perfect and you need to keep working at achieving the things that you want.
This doesn’t mean that they are unattainable it just means you need to be prepared to pay the price. Watch this young man and marvel in what he can do. Practice makes perfect…
Until next time
Chris & Ann
As you probably know, I’m a great fan of Youtube and I find some of the videos of people demonstrating their talent and commitment to their craft quite fantastic.
Watch as Danny McCaskill demonstrates his ability on a bicycle to ride and jump on a huge variety of things around the city of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Here’s to your commitment to your own hopes and dreams and realising them.
Chris
One of the things that I struggle with my kids is when they try something new. The regularly get frustrated that they are not good at it straight away. They are still young and so the concept that “practice makes perfect” is something that doesn’t have a lot of meaning to them. My job is to convince them that they need to keep trying and that if they really want to be good at it they’ll need to keep practicing. To me, this is all about imparting family success.
They have a good excuse…they’re kids. We, as adults, are guilty of giving up ourselves and pretty often its just before we are likely to succeed in our endeavours.
I thought you’d enjoy this news report in the link below to remind you of some of the great people who failed spectacularly before they achieved their dreams. Many of them are now renowned in history for their accomplishments but less well known for the fact that they failed first. But they were different to most of us. They had the courage, and the fortitude to back up, and try again, ultimately succeeding.
News Report - Failures Can Become Success Stories
The lesson is pretty clear…if we want it badly enough we must persist…the darkest hour is the hour before the dawn.
To your persistence in pursuing your own success.
Chris
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Where The Hell is Matt?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008I love seeing people with simple ideas that seem silly on the face of it, succeed by sticking at it and getting it widely accepted over time. My wife Ann recently sent me the link to one such case of this called “Where the Hell is Matt?” This video is gaining heaps of hits on YouTube. I love it because Matt did the one thing over and over again until he got accepted.
There’s a great lesson here for all of us. If you have an idea that you believe in persist, persist, persist! Calvin Coolidge once said “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.“.
So here’s to Matt (who visited 42 countries over 14 months to make this video). Enjoy and here’s to your success.
Until next time!
Chris