Getting skills and striving to be the best – A David Beckham approach!

Never again must the skills people work towards be taken for granted.  These people strive to be truly great so let’s acknowledge their hard work and dedication.

David Beckham practices free kicks for hours every week, every month, every year.  It’s no wonder that he’s probably the best in the world at kicking a stationary ball, something that pretty much everyone has tried to do in their lives.  That level of skill, dedication and determination is to be admired.  But that’s not what’s most impressive.  You see, what’s great about David Beckham is that although he’s been the best in the world at kicking a ball for many years, he’s not stopped practising and learning new skills and techniques to get better and better.  Now that’s very impressive.

Most people, when they think they’re good, the leader in their local area, county, country, world, they start to relax, take their foot off the gas.  That’s when they get overtaken.

Now, that information on it’s own is interesting, but when it’s combined with the idea that everyone is skilled in something, then it becomes really powerful.  To prove a point, just look at what’s around us.  I stare out of my window as I write this and I see a plumbers van and an electricians van, two great examples on my doorstep.

Now, let’s take these as examples – someone is skilled as a plumber or electrician, they’re the best and they’re running their own business but I reckon success comes down to improving their skills with plumbing courses and electrical courses.

Down my street there’s a Doctor.  Would you go to a Doctor who didn’t keep learning new skills?  I certainly wouldn’t.  His ability and desire to learn new skills keeps me healthy.  He’s been a doctor for about 15 years.  It would have been easy for him not to bother, just put his feet up and give random prescriptions to people.  But he’s not like that at all.  He studies, learns and develops new skills.

The plumbers, electricians, doctors, do skills the David Beckham way – they’re good, the best and they go on learning new skills.  It’s impressive and it’s probably taken for granted by everyone else.  But that’s just the people that I saw down my street.  Great people are learning skills and bettering themselves down everyone’s street, every day.  Who do you know that deserves equal applause?