You don’t need me to convince you that practice is key to improvement. We’ve all been through enough sports or enough music or enough hobbies to know that is true. So here’s the question of the day: what are you practicing these days? Not just what are you doing, but what are you consciously, carefully practicing?
Everyday, you have chances to practice things like:
- communication
- people skills
- thinking ahead
- questioning everything
- dreaming or visioning
- learning from others
- planning
Of course, practice works best when you focus. So pick one item to improve. Focus on it and practice it all week long. Rate your performance. Track your progress. You can’t practice what you don’t pay attention to.
[small biz] [rural] [practice] [Becky McCray]
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- Survey of Rural Challenges 2023 results - May 8, 2023
- Rural and small town ideas from the OU Placemaking Conference IQC 2023 - April 5, 2023
- Rural tourism trends say small towns are still cool - March 27, 2023
- Move Your Money and Bank Local - March 22, 2023
- Using a building as a warehouse or storage in a small town? Put up a sign - March 13, 2023
- How to get customers in the door of small town and rural retail stores - February 19, 2023
- Check your small business website for outdated pandemic changes, missing info - January 31, 2023
- Rural Tourism Trend: electric vehicle chargers can drive visitors - January 15, 2023
- 2023 trends for rural and small town businesses - December 26, 2022
It just goes back to the old “use it or lose it.”
A couple of years ago my dyslexia had worsened with advancing age and I had failed to notice.
When I finally noticed (at the beginning of tax season), I was forced to sit and read an hour or two a day until I had retrained my brain for this time at least.
We all must keep up our skills. In the words of that old Chinese philosopher, “I’d rather wear out than rust out.”