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Shoestring success

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Brett in Wrk

I’m just going to say it…

I’m really good at tying my shoes. Really good…

I am a shoelace-tying expert, a guru, a virtuoso, a prodigy. If shoe-tying were a sport, I’d be Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Lebron James all rolled into one mass of talent and expertise.

I could tie my shoelaces anywhere–in a tree, on the space shuttle, on the back of a horse, in Paraguay or Panama, on top of the Eiffel Tower, amidst the din of battle. I could teach classes at Harvard on tying your shoelaces. You could blindfold me, and I’d still be able to tie my shoes. I could travel the world and lecture to huge arenas, pontificating on proper shoe-tying technique.

Though the act itself is a relatively complex combination of twists, turns, and finger gymnastics, I can tie my shoes with virtually no mental energy expended. I can’t recall one time I’ve had to concentrate to tie my shoes. Better yet, I can’t even remember tying my shoes once in the last month. It has become a totally brainless and effortless act, as natural as breathing.

How have I become such an expert on tying shoelaces?

Well by my calculations, I’ve tied my shoes more than 40,000 times in my life.

40,000

There is mounting research that the super-successful among us are simply those who logged thousands and thousands of hours of practice in their field, gaining more experience and outlasting the less determined.

How do you think unbelievable stories like this could be possible?

What dream or goal are you pursuing? You aren’t just going to luck into it. Repetitiveness is good…

So start tying.