Yesterday, we talked about the importance of hiring professionals instead of amateurs.
The same principle applies to your own performance.
How do you know if you’re acting like an amateur?
Performance and sports science will help shed some light on this topic.
The ranks of amateur athletes are filled with individuals who develop a promising new technique, practice it for a few weeks, find it doesn’t pay off during the competition, and then go back to the drawing board to make modifications.
They do this repeatedly and go nowhere.
By contrast, high-performing professionals tend to construct a good plan and stick to it.
And then, they just execute.
They forget about everything else that they can’t control, don’t take detours, and just keep following the plan.
Take for example the inspiring story of Katrin Tanja DavidsdĂłttir who competed in CrossFit’s world championship from Iceland.
The first year she didn’t place in the competition but felt like she had a good plan and was making incremental progress.
She stuck with her plan, executed better than her competitors, and four years later became CrossFit’s “Fittest Woman on Earth.”
Be like Katrin–stick to your plan, and out-execute everyone else.
