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When practice is transformed into play, the monotonous daily grind becomes a source of daily joy.
Pushing ourselves through dull and dragging practice sessions cannot develop our skills to the utmost.
The former accomplishes it seamlessly.
With passion around, persistence translates into performance.
OBSESSIVE SLOG
It is true, it takes deliberate practice to achieve greater things. However, when we drill hard we often turn it to an obsessive slog that drives the joy out of the activity.
BURNOUT/ BOREOUT
Burnout is the emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you are overloaded.
Bore out is the emotional deadening you feel when you're under-stimulated.
Advantage of Breaks
1. Time away helps to sustain harmonious passion. Reduces fatigue and raises the level of energy.
2. Unlocks fresh ideas. Boosts creativity. Your interest keeps the problem active in the back of your mind. It incubates unexpected ways of resolution.
3. Deepens learning. Breaks help you recall what you learned faster. Rest is a supply of fuel.
WHO IS IT YOU WANT?
IF IT IS JESUS, WHAT
KIND OF A JESUS YOU WANT?
Do
you want a Jesus who acts within the context of your expectations? Are you
trying to provoke Jesus into a decisive moment to light the spark of your own
glorification? Are you longing for change and liberation from the yoke of
oppression? Are you testing Jesus hoping to compel him to act with force to
garner a worldly fortune?
Jesus’
mission was fundamentally at variance from these questions and expectations. He
embodies a profound calm and grace. Jesus does not run away from issues. He
does not intend to fulfill expectations of a violent uprising or upheaval that
mankind wants him to lead from the front.. He did not come to the world to
establish a kingdom through brute force. We can never provoke him into a
decisive moment to light the spark of a revolution. Jesus is not a
revolutionary messiah whom we can manipulate to achieve our own desires. He
radiates radical love and redemption for those who betray him. Jesus resides in us when we recognize the
complexities and betrayals of our own hearts. He transforms our misunderstandings into
opportunities for deeper faith.
A
simple question, I have.
Where
is the Church now? Does the Church have Jesus with them?
When
spirituality has given way to accumulation of wealth, appropriation of power,
corruption and rampant misappropriation, can we ever perceive Jesus is with the
Church at the current juncture?
Events
that unfurl in quick succession reveal that Jesus apparently has no place in
the Church.
Who
does the Church want?
It
is Jesus and no one else.
Even
if you forget Jesus, he does not forget you. Just as we think Jesus is not
backing us up, he is always there behind the curtains, shielding us. Trust him
even as you think he has forsaken or abandoned the Church.
He
can transform the Church. He will transform the Church.
In Boxing, there is no such thing as flawless performance.
You are going to be hit.
If you want to win, you cannot get stuck in the weeds, hide from your weaknesses or avoid challenges.
There is no need to beat yourself up. Your opponents would do plenty of beating.
If you wish to protect your face and head, you have to leave your body exposed and take some punches.
In boxing, you must risk moving into danger in order to fully take advantage of your skills and eventually win the match.
New projects or ventures require similar mentality. Taking that extra step forward into the unknown is vital.
PERFECTIONISM
When you are a perfectionist, you have to be fastidious about getting every point right. If not, your decision could end up flawed. Yet, to be uncompromising, you have to make compromises. Here, prioritization of objectives comes into sharp focus. You learn, you have to tolerate flaws. It’s part of becoming an expert in your venture. You gradually gain mastery in the job on hand. As you grow, you understand which flaws are acceptable over your own urge to attain perfectionism.
Perfectionism is the desire to be impeccable. The goal is zero defects, no flaws, no failures.
In an increasingly competitive world, kids face growing pressure from parents to be perfect and harsh criticism when they fall short. They learn to judge their worth by the absence of inadequacies. Every flaw is a blow to their self esteem.
Perfectionists excel at solving problems that are straightforward and familiar. They are happy to regurgitate facts they have committed to memory, though they may have no idea about what they actually mean.
When it comes to mastering their tasks, perfectionists are no better than their peers. The average correlation between perfectionism and performance at work had been found to be zero on an analysis and at times the former had been worse off.
It is observed:
1. The skills and inclinations that drive people to the top of their high school or college class may not serve them so well after their graduation.
2. The people who go on to become masters in their own fields often start out with imperfect transcripts in school.
However, perfectionists generally tend to get three things wrong in their quest for flawless results:
1. They obsess about details, that don’t really matter. They are so busy finding the right solution to tiny problems whereas they lack the discipline to find the right problems to solve.
2. They avoid unfamiliar situations and difficult tasks that might lead to failure. It leaves them refining a narrow set of existing skills rather than working to develop new ones.
3. They berate themselves for making mistakes, which makes it harder for them to learn from the mistakes. They fail to realize that the purpose of reviewing your mistakes isn’t to shame your past self. It’s to educate your future self.
Perfectionism traps us in a spiral of tunnel vision and error avoidance. It prevents us from seeing larger problems as they are. Further, it restricts us from developing our own skills.
If perfectionism were a medication, the label that would alert us to common side effects could be stated as, “Warning –may cause stunted growth.”
A perfectionist, on matters or projects important to him may keep revisiting and refining until it’s exactly right. But he can succeed only when he recognizes that perfection is a mirage and that in order to go farther, he has to learn to tolerate the right imperfections. You win when you strive not for perfection but for what could be the perfectly acceptable.
You become a master, when you find beauty in imperfection.
