A Life Changing Observation

When we’re in school, we often begin to think that the most important things in life are what we read in our textbooks, or hear in our professor’s lectures, and that getting the best grades are very important. But really, how much of anything you learned in school, do you remember today?

Use It or Lose It

Being a physics major in college, most of what I studied, including the use of a slide rule, are today a very distant memory. Why? Because I don’t use most of what I studied back then, in my daily life today.

When I entered radio sales, I would use Newton’s 3^rd Law of Motion from my physics education:

“For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.”

That simple statement can be found in the Bible expressed this way:

“As you sow, so shall you reap.”

And one of my sales mentor’s, Zig Ziglar, put it this way:

“You can get anything in life you want,

 if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

In sales, I used this universal principle on a daily basis to help my advertising clients grow their business, and later in my career as a market manager of radio station clusters to grow my people.

As a university professor, I not only taught my students this important life principle, but lived it as an example of its power.

Habit & Repetition

The lessons we learn best, are the ones we use daily. Through habit and repetition, we grow confidence in our ability to do whatever we put our minds to accomplishing. Drawing on our experiences better enables us to deal with life’s questions, confusions, and problems, making them less overwhelming.

Growth in your career – and in life – is a gradual process. It takes consistently working at what you want to achieve, day after day.

You form the habits of success through daily repetition, but it’s important that you’re doing the right things, and, doing them correctly.

I had a roller skating coach that put it this way:

Practice doesn’t make perfect.

Perfect practice makes perfect.