Risk-takers live by three rules: Prepare, Prepare, and Prepare.
By preparing yourself today, you position yourself for an excellent chance for achieving your desired outcomes in life.
“You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born,
to be you must plan to win and prepare to win.
Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win.”
—Zig Ziglar
Type 1 – Immediate Preparation
This is the preparation that you have to make in a short time to get yourself ready for a presentation, an athletic event, meeting a new client, a romantic date or just preparing for dinner for the kids later in the day.
Type 2 – Future Preparation
This preparation takes place over a period of many years. Authors spend years writing a manuscript for a future book publication. Pastors spend years studying the Bible so they can accurately teach spiritual truths to their congregations. Athletes spend years training for the Olympics. Doctors spend years at medical school preparing to care for their patients. Pilots spend years in flight school and in actual flying time before they can become a commercial airplane pilot. Long-term preparation is what will make you an expert.
Type 3 – Daily Preparation
A prepared life is a perpetually growing life. The continued daily pursuit of mental, emotional, and spiritual growth is common to all winners. Every new day provides you an opportunity to prepare for your tomorrow. Gaining more confidence is a process rather than a single event. Whatever level of confidence you have, you can always have more. Therefore, you should have a plan to grow spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially every day of your life.
“A genius is an intelligent person who does his homework.”
—Thomas Edison, prolific inventor including the incandescent lamp
All three of these types of preparation are absolutely necessary for becoming a confident champion in life. Proper preparation will cause you to be a well-balanced person, well able to handle anything that life can throw at you. From the day of your conception, you have been in the incubation chamber of preparation. Everything you have been through up until today is all preparation for tomorrow.
CONFIDENCE COACHING KEY:
Champions are made in the process of preparation.
The desire to win, to be successful, or to do something great in life,
is not enough. The will to prepare to win is the most important thing.
Keep an eye out for Part 2
