You Hit Only What You Aim At
To be a success at anything, you must be focused. Yesterday, I was talking with a few friends about young people who work at The Apple Stores. One friend expressed amazement that the staff of young geniuses had such a command of understanding computers. Another friend pointed out that those young people are passionate about computers and work with them all the time.
People who are passionate and do any activity repeatedly develop abilities to perform robotically and make those performances seem so easy: Tiger Woods hitting a golf ball; Michael Phelps breaking a speed record; Barbara Walter conducting an interview; Joel Sherman finding a bingo on his scrabble rack.
You say that you want to become better or great at something?
Do you have what it takes? It requires not just saying that ‘you want it’. It require a demonstration through your actions. It requires a relentless pursuit, even on those days when you want to take a hiatus. It require keeping your nose to the grindstone, feeling all the growing pains, battling through the discouraging times, until you step into the winner’s circle. CAN YOU DO THAT? Do you want it bad enough?
If you want ‘IT’ that badly, you can achieve ‘IT’: earning a college degree; throwing a curveball; speaking in public; mastering your computer; losing those extra pounds; expanding the capabilities of your memory.
You hit only what you aim at.