At the core of deep practice is deliberate repetition, which takes discipline, patience and persistence.

It’s easy to fall off the wagon when your practice becomes difficult, and creating a practice schedule that you commit to can help greatly with staying focused and committed.

So take some time now to create your schedule. When will your practice? Where will you practice? With whom will you practice? What skills will you schedule to practice during each session? How many repetitions will you aim for?

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One of the things that has the biggest impact on helping us to get motivated, and to get into a creative, high-functioning “flow” state is if we’re tackling a task that’s just outside of our ability and comfort zone. Once we can do that task, moving the goal posts and increasing the level of difficulty of the task will keep us motivated and in our optimal learning zone.

What’s your current goal post? How will you know when you’re there? And what will be your next goal post once you get there?

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Deep practice is hard work.

How do you feel about hard work? Does it come naturally to you? Are you patient and persistent with repetition and practice? Are you able to enjoy hard work and deep practice?

What’s the self-talk that you’ve got going on when you’re doing deep practice – is it upbeat and positive or negative, critical and whiny? How can you change your self-talk and inject more energy, positive feelings and playfulness into your practice?

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“The best way to build a good circuit is to fire it, attend to the mistakes, then fire it again, over and over. Struggle is not an option. It’s a biological requirement.” – Daniel Coyle

Focused struggle is an important part of skill development. If it’s easy, you’re not learning very efficiently and effectively, so we can be grateful for obstacles because they help us to learn more effectively and efficiently. What obstacles are you grateful for?

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Talent development comes through deliberate deep practice, making mistakes, spotting the mistakes and going back and doing it again. If you’re trying to avoid making mistakes, you’re avoiding learning.

What’s your attitude towards the idea of making mistakes and focusing on your mistakes in order to learn? Notice if you have any resistance or fear about making mistakes and notice what your story is about mistakes and failure that’s causing your resistance and fear.

Is that story true? What evidence in this Bottom-line could offer you a new paradigm on the meaning of mistakes and failure?

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Error-focused learning is at the core of talent development. What will you do to create a system for quickly spotting your errors and fixing them? Will you record yourself and watch it to spot the errors? Will you get a group together and perform in front of each other to help each other find and [...]

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