When most people think of professionals, they think of people who participate in sport for money or do something that the rest of us love, only as a paid job.
There is another way to think of being a professional.
If you watch a proper athlete prepare themselves for an event, you’ll see the sacrifices they make and the attention to detail they bring to the process that they repeat time and time again.
If you look at a really good, very high level, football player, the way they prepare for each game is almost exactly the same 40 & 50 times a year.
If you look at an Olympic athlete, how they set themselves up for the event that is to come and even how they prepare for training sessions shows a level of dedication and a positive attitude that goes beyond the motivation of many.
It’s nothing to do with getting paid though, it’s to do with your attitude to the task at hand.
If you find that you’re repeatedly doing a task and not getting the outcome that you expected, then go back to your preparation and how you set yourself up for the task itself and ask, “am I going about this in a professional way?”
If you always turn up late for work or if I always turn up late for a patient or if I can’t be bothered because I was spending some of my hard-earned cash getting sh*t faced the night before is not professional.
I’m not sure it’s possible for anyone to be professional 100% of the time but it’s definitely a numbers game.
The more you do it, the better you get, and the better the outcome becomes.
Blog Post Number - 3039
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