The road to success is not a freeway. It’s always under construction, full of setbacks and holes to fall into. And the paradox is you never really get there, especially in this silly game we play called sporting clays.
This brings out the best in some of us as well as the worst in some of us. It’s because the journey is neither short nor easy – and it’s full of failure. The way you handle the failures -not the successes – determines in great measure the heights of your achievements. And your attitude about how long you will be doing this has even more to do with the speed of your development than just about any other thing.
We are in the beginning stages of launching a program on our Knowledge Vault web site that outlines what shooters must learn at different stages of their shooting career in order to optimize their time spent trying to improve. We have openly shared with all shooters worldwide what we have seen and experienced, first as competitors at the top of the game and then as professional coaches through our columns, our 12 books, and hundreds of videos.
Some of our shooters took our advice and advanced from E class to Master in as little as 12 to 14 months. And others made the same journey in as many as six to eight years. We have recently interviewed many of them for this project and many common threads emerged. The order of events seemed eerily the same in almost all instances.
As I mentioned above, your attitude about how long you’ll be doing this has a lot to do with how long it will take you to develop the skills necessary to excel at this game – or any other circumstance in life itself, for that matter.
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