{"id":3569,"date":"2021-08-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:08:21","slug":"practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m writing about how my <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3560\">golf game has improved<\/a>, and how I\u2019ve made <strong><em>progress <\/em><\/strong>by means of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Purpose<\/li><li>Practice<\/li><li>Perseverance<\/li><li>Performance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3566\">Yesterday<\/a> I wrote about the importance of the decision: <strong><em>purpose<\/em><\/strong>. But there&#8217;s an old riddle: &#8220;Three frogs sat on a lily pad, and two of them decided to jump off. How many frogs are left?&#8221; Answer: &#8220;Three. The two just <em>decided <\/em>to jump off; they didn&#8217;t actually do it.&#8221; So decision or <em><strong>purpose <\/strong><\/em>is not enough&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, let\u2019s talk about\u00a0<strong><em>practice<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have always been well aware that to get better at golf (or anything else) one has to practice. I met a sergeant in the Air Force who told me, &#8220;I go out to the driving range and knock out 200 &#8211; 300 balls a day.&#8221; I knew then that I would never be a good golfer! And I&#8217;ve always been able to play &#8220;adequate&#8221; golf (by my definition) without the range. Not this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend (and blog reader) Tom wanted us to play more golf, so our first meeting was on the range &#8211; remember, I hadn&#8217;t played since 2017! So I hit 25 balls on the range, got one lesson, and then Tom and I met for a disastrous nine holes. Afterward, I told him, &#8220;We can&#8217;t play next week, I have to get some time on the driving range.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Image-20210729-095429.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Image-20210729-095429.jpeg?resize=474%2C612&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Image-20210729-095429.jpeg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Image-20210729-095429.jpeg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>You practice and you get better. It&#8217;s very simple. &#8211; Philip Glass, composer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So two months, 30 visits to the range hitting 1300+ balls, and nine practice rounds later, and I could see progress. But there were times when it wasn&#8217;t easy. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll talk about perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Train yourself for godliness. (1 Timothy 4.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. (1 Corinthians 9.25, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing about how my golf game has improved, and how I\u2019ve made progress by means of: Purpose Practice Perseverance Performance Yesterday I wrote about the importance of the decision: purpose. But there&#8217;s an old riddle: &#8220;Three frogs sat on a lily pad, and two of them decided to jump off. How many frogs are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-practice","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}