Friday, September 28, 2012

I can't sit down long enough to do this.....

Sitting up late one night I had an epiphany! I realized that repetition is the key to ultimate success. Now before you go thinking I am crazy, please read on 1st,suckers!!!! Think about it like this, when we first take on a task of learning something new, doesn’t it seem boring and uninteresting? Take for example,learning how to speak a foreign language. We have to really think about remembering what letters and sounds add up to. We must slow down and take our time -thus adding to our frustrations on the issue. Heck we live in the microwave society,where getting our Hot Pockets headed up in 22 seconds is not quite fast enough -considering we didn’t have the microwave several years back! Any who, with patience, practice and dedication we start to learn that language and soon something ironic takes place. Our words starts 2 match our minds eye, and we are flowing and getting down with the best of them at the flea market-lol! Before long, this language becomes not only easy but actually fun because we are no longer fighting it but embracing it and allowing our excuses to become stepping stones to mastery. I watched my daughter hate math, but soon get straight A’s in advanced math!!! How did she do it you ask? Well, she started spending more time, thinking about it, not talking about the usual things such as “When am I ever gonna use this” or “why do I have to complete so many of these hard problems”. I was both proud of her and amazed at the simplicity of the lesson she unknowly taught her old man. She showed me even though things are difficult on the onset, consistency will reap benefits if we do not tire out from boredom. In fact, there are many individuals who can’t handle repetition or boredom and they give up and miss out on a life style that never could have imagined. Look at Michael Jordan, he wasnt the best player in High School, because he got cut from the team his Junior year. He wasn’t even the best player in college; he was the 3rd or 4th option to shoot the dang ball. What he did do was, master the basics of shooting correcting (he developed a beautiful jump shot), he grasped the importance or lay up, running and conditioning his body. The result form his hard work was 6 NBA championships, multiple MVP awards and millions of $$$$! But we complain about having to learn Spanish from Rosetta stone… Really people?? Repetition is a bugga wolf to get over but once we do, we can go from crawling to sprinting----from baby talking to singing like Whitney Houston (before the Crack of course). You get me point. I challenge you to quit wasting time and start to use the beautiful mind Jehovah has given you and make it dew what it can do baby….. I am Ward…..

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