Make the Move from Theory to Practice in Your Daily Life

Because why are you even reading those self-improvement books, if not to improve?

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I’ve read a lot of self-improvement books over the last few years, and I’ve gained a lot of knowledge from them. It recently became clear to me that though I’ve been READING the lessons, I haven’t been LEARNING the lessons. Sure, I can quote James Clear, Eckhart Tolle, and even Marcus Aurelius to you all day long, but quoting and doing are two different things. At some point, you need to move from theory to practice, or it’s all for naught.

This week I had the chance to do that, and I succeeded, but it was very nearly a fail. I’m going to walk through what happened, how I almost screwed it up, and how I came through in the end, so that you don’t do the same thing.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams

THE OPPORTUNITY

When my phone rang, it was the science department head from the local college, and he was in desperate need of a…