“When you get stuck, ask for help, that’s why you have a coach.” – Glenn K. Seki *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Chapter 7, A Coach and Coaching You really need to have a coach/mentor/teacher/etc. A coach can be a parent, relative, friend, teacher, someone you hire, etc. Tiger Wood’s father introduced him to golf, Venus and Serena Williams’ father introduced them to tennis and coached them in their early years. You can have multiple coaches concurrently and consecutively. Your coaches should have a higher expertise level than you do, although they don’t have to. A friend may help motivate you to keep practicing…
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Focus on the Solution
“When you complain about what’s happened to you, or a call, you take your focus off of the solution. How could we have been better? What are the things that we need to get better at? And ultimately, what are the things that we can control and things that we don’t control?” “I think for young people and for all people, it’s important to identify the differences in both.” – Lance Taylor, Western Michigan Broncos football Head Coach *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Chapter 9, Persistence, Motivation, and More About Your Path A lot will depend on to what you attribute a failure or…
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Practice Means to Perform
“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” – Martha Graham *** About Practice, Persistence, and the Development of Expertise *** An excerpt from How To Become The Best at Anything, Chapter 8, Deliberate Practice and Learning “To become the best takes practice, lots and lots of practice. I have mentioned the 10,000-hour rule. It takes about 10,000 hours of practice to get really good at something and not just any type of practice, but deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is practicing to get better. The classic example…
