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Practice Isn’t Perfect
It’s movement.
This week I started reading Zig Ziglar’s Over the Top.
I bought the book 8 years ago. I had good intentions. I was going to read it before the end of 2013.
I didn’t.
For the first time in my adult life, I have written goals. And not just for one round. I’m in my second round of goals now. And it’s not because I didn’t know better. I just thought I could wing it. I believed I could read all the self-help in the world, store it in my brain, and access it whenever I needed to.
That’s a start, but it won’t carry you far.
It was only when I started setting goals that I truly began to understand their power.
Try has gotten a bad reputation
Tell your parents or your friends you’re trying to do something. Maybe you want to quit smoking, lose weight, or learn to meditate. It doesn’t really matter as long as you’re trying.
Then when you fail, you can always say, “Well, I tried.”
The truth is you can’t do anything without trying. Trying isn’t giving up. Trying is movement. Trying is fed by persistence. So long…
