I'm sure you've heard the saying that practice makes perfect, right? Well, I don't believe there's any perfection and instead of shooting for perfection, I'm an advocate of practicing those things you want to make a permanent part of your thinking, behaviour and life style success.

If you want to become better at anything you have to practice it.

When I was a basketball player I loved to shot the layup shot. The rhythm of the shot came relatively easy to me and plus I really enjoyed the flair and the beauty of the shot so I took to it quickly and was quite good at it. I had to put in very little practice to make this shot a permanent part of my basketball behavioral success.

Now the free throw shot didn't come so easily. For some reason it was my most difficult shot. I had to practice and practice that shot hundreds of times to improve. It was a mystery, because the shot seemed to be so simple, but yet I had to practice the rhythm and the steps of the shot along with the required focused thinking over and over again until one day as if by magic, I started to make free throws with fluidity. The rhythm and thinking had become a permanent part of my thinking through practicing them. Obviously this caused my free throw percentage to improve tremendously!

The approach of practice to make it permanent works just as well for changing your mindset and thinking in any given area. This is the principle behind reciting positive affirmations. You have to speak the affirmation and practice it over and over until it becomes a permanent part of your thinking and how you see yourself and your life.

If you've been wasting time aiming for perfection just stop. Instead, to boost your motivation, begin the art of practice makes permanent and be very selective about what you do practice because it will stick with you for life!

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Denise is the creator of the "Dream BIG Motivated Mindset System" and for the past 10 years has been teaching the system that helps women discover success strategies to improve the bottom line in all areas of their lives. She also offers free weekly teleseminars, as well as online courses with a workshop environment.