Ask An Ambassador: Fall Down, Get Back Up

A saying I read a long time ago:

       Fall down six, get up seven.

The ability to get-up & go again is no accident. Mankind under grace needs this

Good morning,  Bill(and Liz) - each of your quotes you share may be appropriate depending on the situation. My skateboarding "career" was over long ago. Blogging...Hmm there may be hope. 

It's scary to look back at my first posts, or my first listings, or my first photos!  It's all good practice and that's how I view it.  :-)  Thanks for the pep talk!  I'm off to practice more blogging!

Practice certainly makes one better! (Not necessarily perfect, but definitely better!)

Good for that skater for continuing to try and finally landing his trick!

I love failure.  It makes me perfect my game.  Or else!

But I am trying to find childhood analogies here... hmmm. I tried oil painting and that didn't work very well.  I gave up.

I picked up guitar by myself to woo a high school flame: I had motivation in this case and kept playing and playing to learn to be better and better.  It didn't help much.  She fell in love with the New Kid in town.  And he didn't care a whit about her.  He went for the cheerleaders.

But now I play a pretty good guitar!!

There's no question that practice makes perfect.  As long as you're seeing some progress... (and progress is by no means instant).. keep it up.

I make sure I am motivated everyday! As they say, "try and fail, but don't fail to try"

BLiz

Falling down and getting back up is a valuable lesson, in life and in our real estate business. Sometimes there’s more falling down than we would like but if you don’t get back up, well, you’re in a pickle.

Jeff

Bill- great analogy and you're right, both quotes can be considered accurate depending upon your situation. Your practicing of writing patio home posts seems to have paid off for you. 

Good afternoon Bill,

So glad to see this post featured. You present some valuable perceptions about practice makes perfect and  falling down and getting up! Progress is the key! You figured out this blogging thing and business is your measurement for success!

Yes, both quotes are accurate. The trick is for us to know the difference between things we should drop and things we should practice.

I was so lucky that I had an early quick payoff in blogging and that kept me at it and of course it was a slow growing process and heaven knows I made some blogging mistakes.  I wrote one once that had people here telling me... I was nuts for putting it out there.  (it's not out there), but I did take their advice and change the tone of the message and re-write it.  Practice, learning from others, learning from mistakes... it's all part of life and blogging.

Bliz is is a find line between knowing when it's time to 'hang it up' or keep on going on....and that ppplies to every facet of life and business.

This blogging thing doesn't work for everyone, but then maybe they didn't practice enough. I practice everyday and it seems to be working!

Practice makes perfect, however how much pain can one endur to get to perfect? With blogging practice helped, but it was the tips from others that vaulted me forward

this is such a good post in many ways... good inspiration for people starting out blogging and a gentle nudge for those of us who may be slacking off a bit.... or a lot!

That skateboarder slightly tweaked his speed/timing/landing style until he found the right combination. So he wasn't really fitting into the definition of insanity! 

Practicing different ways to do something can definitely result in success!

Oh my gosh, what a great analogy, Bill! You know, I can't imagine falling on concrete over and over and over again...this is SO much easier than that, right?!