Practice doesn't make perfect.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

I often meet people who tell me that all they need is practice. They’re convinced that simply by spending hours and hours practicing, they’ll end up speaking perfect English.

Unfortunately, what this often does is deeply engrain bad habits that become much more difficult to undo later.

For example, I had been working out for years before I started working with my fitness coach, and one of the first things he told me to do was to stop exercising. As it turns out, I had been doing it wrong all these years, and it affected my posture, overall health, and I had barely made any progress.

Like I do with my clients, one of the first things we did was correct my old habits and very carefully build new ones that would actually bring me closer to my goals.

Practice in itself is good because it’s about building habits, but especially for pronunciation, make sure you’re building the right ones.

It's easy to fall into the trap of mindlessly practicing without making sure you're doing it right, but that's exactly what it is - a trap.

First make sure you've identified your errors and bad habits before you start doing the work of making your new skill automatic.

If you’re ready to find and break those bad habits in order to make your practice count towards your goals (not against them), send me a message and we'll look at it together.

Do you know what your bad habits are?