Do you want to be good at something? Do desire to be the best at your art, profession, sport, or hobby? If so, do you work at perfecting what you do? If not, you won’t achieve your goal.
Even if you possess an inordinate amount of talent, you still need to perfect what you do.
I’ve spent most of this week watching my son perfect his art — dance. He has not been alone in this endeavor. The studios at Broadway Dance Center in New York City have been filled with dancers perfecting their art. They go from class to class and come out drenched with sweat but smiling. While in the studio, they are focused, intent and working hard. Most are working up to their full capacity, drawing on the group’s energy. And this is what they do all day, every day…or as often as they can, whenever they can. You can see them in the hallways rehearsing together. You can hear them discussing dance together. You can watch them choreographing as they listen to their Ipods. For them, perfecting their art form represents a constant endeavor. It’s never far from their consciousness, even when they are doing something unrelated.
How many of us behave the same way, have the same focus or consciousness about what we do or say we want to do? Do I work at pefecting my writing and getting published all day every day? (No.) How many of us come up with excuses? I’m too tired. I don’t have the time. I don’t have the money. I have responsibilities that don’t allow me to perfect what I do…or to do it.
Today, I suggest we all begin not only doing what we say we want to do, but perfecting what we do as well. We should use dancers as our role models and make what we do integral to who we are, work at it hard every day and keep it at the forefront of our minds at all times. Train like a dancer to be the best, to surpass your current level of proficiency, to achieve your dreams.
