Gymnastics seems to be taking over my life.
For awhile I would go to two different gymnastics classes every Monday. Now I only need to go to one. But that class is 2 hours long. I sit there and watch kids a quarter, yes a quarter, of my age doing things that I have never and will never be able to do. (I know we should never say never but even as a kid I could’t move like that. Now that I am considerably older it is not going to happen.)
Anyway, one of the coaches mentioned that gymnasts mess up 95% of the time. They practice so much to train their muscles to do the correct thing the 5% of the time they are in front of the judges.
It amazes me to sit and watch these kids for just a fraction of the amount of time they spend each week practicing. They spend hours doing the same thing over and over again. Why? So they can cut down the 95% failure rate. Because they know the more they practice the less failures they will have. Because they know the more they practice the bigger the 5% of doing things correctly becomes.
This of course made me think of my own life. I start something new and I want to be perfect right away. I don’t want to redo anything or keep trying. To tell you the truth the only time I argued with my mom is when she wanted me to take out stitches when she was teaching me how to sew.
I don’t have the patience to sit and work and work to figure out how to do something. However, I have goals and dreams. So I may not have patience now it is certainly something that I can develop. I choose to start now. Everyday I choose to do one thing that will get me closer to my goal.
Right now that means that I need to learn a lot about the technical side of blogging. I need to learn how to make changes to my website. How to add pages and make the content more interesting to look at.
I need to learn about marketing. How do I use different social media outlets to share my message? How do I make interesting instagram posts? Where do people find the awesome quotes from others? And seriously how do they write such great quotes?
I may keep failing 95%. But when I work everyday it gives me more of a chance to succeed the other 5% because I am doing more.
And these gymnasts that are on team are seriously ripped! I want to be the elite gymnast of supporting others to reach their goals! Do you have an exciting goal you would like help achieving? I would love to help you. Contact me for more information.
