Practice Secrets Revealed - Effective Training Attitude

You Are Only As Good As Your Last Training Session

Don't Let Ego Stand In Your Way Of Success

My Kung Fu teacher shared a story with me about his experience of achieving his black sash many years ago. His Sifu (teacher) at the time asked him a question “How much better will you be after you take this (black sash) grading? How much more of a marital artist will you be? How much will you have improved when you achieve your black sash?”

His answer was quite an astute one (and I would have expected nothing less from him!) “About as good as the length of the training session.”

You see he understood that you are only as good as your last training session and if you believe anything otherwise you are on dangerous territory... the territory of ego!

Ego can be terribly destructive because it can get in the way of self improvement, goal setting and achievement. Once you believe that you have reached a pinnacle or know everything there is to know about something you cease to improve.

Once you cease to improve you stagnate, when you stagnate you quickly start to slide back and get worse. Apart from this article starting to sound like is was written by Yoda I am trying to make a very important point. Ego is not only an unpleasant trait in someone it is also incredibly destructive.

If we are always striving to improve our performance in anything, no matter what that may be from business to hobbies and past times and sport we must make sure that we do not let complacency and ego get in the way and we must remember that we are only as good as our last training session, performance or practice.

Only by observing this principle can we ensure that we give ourselves honest feedback to build upon to achieve our goals and true potential and of course it doesn't stop there. If we follow the principle through to its logical conclusion and we achieve our goals we do not sit back on our laurels and gloat, we use that experience to set new goals and apply the principle again to improve some more and so on, always striving for honest improvement.

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