Practice Makes Perfect

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Education, Jesus, Best, Self-improvement, Spiritual, Christianity, Achieve, Grow, Increase, Health & Fitness, Excel, Religion & Spirituality, Goals, Faith

4.9 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I'm sure you've heard our title phrase a thousand times. We usually are talking about daily habits that can help us achieve our goals. And while we will look at some of that today, I primarily want you to think of our phrase in a spiritual way. When it comes to our spiritual activities: both good and bad, how does Practice Make Perfect? I have been wrestling lately with the idea of balancing confidence in hea...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back for Season 2 of the Excel Stillmore podcast.
0:10.1	I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies
0:15.0	to help you deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ.
0:23.1	Thank you for joining. Let's get started.
0:30.9	I am so glad you've tuned in today. Thanks for joining.
0:34.7	Our title today is a term that practically everybody knows. At some point in your
0:40.2	life, maybe a bunch of times you have uttered this phrase, practice makes perfect. It's old.
0:48.2	You don't need to look up the etymology. I did the work for you. But this phrase has been used for like 500 years, and it's
0:57.4	always meant basically the exact same thing. If something is important to you, and you want to get
1:05.4	better at it, you must put in the work. That's where the word practice comes in. Be consistent with it,
1:13.6	be regular with it, make it a part of your normal daily routine, keep at it, because the result
1:20.6	of that kind of commitment, even though there may be stumbles along the way, the result of that is
1:27.4	that it makes you into something
1:29.9	else. And I really like that we use the word perfect here. We're not talking about flawlessness.
1:37.8	No one ever gets to that point, no matter how hard we work in any category. And the figure understands that. Actually, what I think is really cool
1:47.3	about the term practice makes perfect is that its origins were not religious in any known way. It wasn't
1:54.2	created as some biblical reflective. And yet the definition of perfect in that phrase is a lot like the idea of perfect
2:02.6	in the New Testament. Jesus talks about being perfect like your Heavenly Father is perfect. It
2:08.6	clearly doesn't mean flawless. That's not the goal. The goal is to get to the highest level that we can.
2:17.2	Perfection means you at your best. If you are really putting in
2:22.2	the work and you're sticking with it and you don't give up and you make it regular and you
2:27.9	start improving, you get to the best, whatever it is that you could possibly be. I can become a perfect husband, at least me at my
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