If at first you don't succeed, try again. Popular phrase, made even more popular by late R&B singer/songstress Aaliyah. This phrase has stood the test of time. Why? Because the phrase is true. Or as they say now, Big Facts. But this phrase is more powerful than most of us even realize. See this repetition applies for not only when things do not work out for you but also for when things work out exactly how you want. Repetition is the foundation of creating habits. This is where the Broken Record Repetition comes to play. This is the next step.
In every step there is a required amount of perseverance needed, and in every step there is learning required. Step 1 required patience to let things unfold and to learn how to take the broken pieces, or the fragments of incomplete projects, of old and view them in a new light. View them as one, to let things start coming together. The repetition needed here is to continue refreshing your mind to different possibilities when things do not appear to go as planned.
In Step 2 the perseverance required was to continue. To continue working, harder and harder than the previous time. The repetition required here is to repeat putting in the hard work. Repeating the hard work builds almost like a layer of callous that the tasks that were hard before will become almost the norm. This helps when newer larger obstacles appear in your way, as you now have some resistance built up. You have previous track records of getting past obstacles by putting in the hard work. So logically you will simply need to put in the hard work again, to get past the newest challenge.
Step 3 follows the same concepts as the previous two steps. In step 3 you are creating your own path and to this requires more patience and perseverance than ever before. You are putting in the work that will become the bricks used to create that path. But you must be able to persevere knowing you may be in the middle of no where, by yourself. The repetition that occurs in Step 3 is MAJOR. Why? Because not only does this repetition lead to more and more of these pieces of the path being filled in but it also leads you directly into Step 4.
Creating/ Finding your purpose, this is Step 4. This is the big kahuna. In your perseverance you will be rewarded with your purpose. But you have to look at those actions from the previous step/s to decipher the code. Once deciphered the repetition required here is to keep those actions going. Keep the actions coming, even after you think the path may already be completed.
This is why we must function similar to that of a broken record now. Because even though we have persevered and repeated through all steps in the past we must continue to do so. Not only now but in the later steps, in life. Our improvement is dependent on how well we can do these two things. So hit the rinse cycle. Clean yourself up, and get ready. I say this because many get bored of repeating themselves that they try to move on to do something else before perfecting the right steps. They advance when they still have work to go to MASTER where they are now.
So go out and repeat yourself. Don't leave the gym til you make 1000 of the same shots. And then once you have, I look forward to seeing where all the work went to.
-jae