I am sure that at some point in everyone’s life, they have an “aha!” moment. I don’t think that this moment is always going to change someone’s life because quite frankly, not everyone will take action on the great idea that they come up with. If fact, I am really no different. I have had great ideas in the past, but I never put them into practice, and as a result nothing really ever came of them. However, just the other day, I felt like I had a huge breakthrough.

I have been wrestling for most of my life. I haven’t had a whole lot of day jobs or work experience like most normal people in our society do. I have learned to work my butt off, and I have learned what it takes to be great at something. The answer obviously is time and effort. However, for years I remember people talking about how wrestling prepares you for life, and how after you have wrestled everything else in life is easy. Most of the people that would say these things were wrestling coaches and they were trying to get their kids to buy into their program or the sport or whatever. I have always been pretty busy looking at how wrestling applies to wrestling, and I haven’t taken a whole lot of time to look at other things in life and think to myself “I think that this wrestling lesson applies to what it is that I am doing.” The other day though I was thinking about the importance of making scoring attempts in wrestling. The more attempts that you make, the more points that you will score, but I had never thought about how that applies to life.

When you make scoring attempts in wrestling you obviously take your lumps if it is a brand new move that you are trying to execute, but as you at least make the attempt you learn how to scramble and recover if for some reason you end up in a bad position. Eventually you learn how to execute and when to execute and things to watch out for. Over time you do the move over and over again, and you become the expert. Then you feel using that technique against the very best people in the world. It isn’t a really complicated process, but it does take time and effort. Then I realized that you can take that same model or idea and apply it to anything in life or business or whatever. You get good by trying to do whatever it is that you want to do. People don’t just start out good at sports, school, business, music, etc… They get good by practicing and everyday trying to do just a little bit more or do a little bit better. If you do this day in and day out, think about how good you will be at it at the end of 5, 10, or even 20 years. So I guess the whole moral of the story is to figure out what you want to be good at and start doing it. Even if you are horrible at it right now, even if people tell you that you are crazy, even though you have no experience or background in that thing, start today. As you make the attempts you will get good at whatever it is that you want to do, and you will be happy that you made the effort because at the end of the day you will have made something of yourself.