Muscle Memory
June 16, 2009 – 11:44 am
I swim with a master’s swim team, and my coach is always taking about “muscle memory.” The main idea behind “muscle memory” is that you need to practice the things that will improve your performance. With swimming this refers to a number of things that will improve a swimmers’ performance, including:
- keeping your fingers together when swimming
- continuing to focus on efficient movements, balance, and rotation
- learning to recover while swimming more slowly, so that your body
- controlling your breathing and heart rate
Improving your financial life is also requires training, diligence, and and persistence. And life is more of a marathon than it is a sprint. Therefore persistence is rewarded more than speed or skill in many ways. In order to improve your financial muscle memory, consider working on the following areas:
- being content with what you have
- learning to delay gratification
- spending less than you earn. Every. Single. Month.
- practice sticking with your investment plan, even when you’re scared about the market
- read one or two books a year, every year, in order to learn something that will improve your capability. This could be a book on personal finance, marriage, faith, or skills that can improve your value in the workforce.
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