Why Good Habits Aren't Enough Any More

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Habit and Practice

The way we do things matters.

Many times, precise habits are enough to achieve excellence. Think accounting, financial analysis, risk management, music and the arts, surgery, mathematics. You get the idea: 10,000+ hours, licenses, certifications.

When habits become elevated, ritual arrives: the baseball player’s pregame personal routine, the gymnast’s or high diver’s warmup, backstage before the show, inauguration ceremonies, in the operating room, at funerals.

Ritual transforms habit into powerful, bespoke practice; it takes habit higher.

The Way?

Just like learning to blend the head and the heart, a practice improves with time and reps. As in the clinical professions, practice is also respectfully aware of its current limitations while always working hard to grow them.

Unlike a spectator sport, practice only works when you show up on the field suited up and ready to rumble. Practice can bruise the head, heart, body, and soul and lead the way to health and wellness. It can transform a painter to a fine artist, develop leadership from passion, turn an ordinary conversationalist into an orator, push the known boundaries of the sciences.

We admire those who use their habits well. For the outliers we revere, no practice is ever enough.

Summary

Habit: precise repetition

Ritual: elevated, inspired intention

Practice: cultivated growth

Habit + Ritual = Practice

Call To Action

AI is great with habits, which can give new freedom to enterprise.

Ritual and practice, though, cannot be outsourced.

What kind of person would you prefer to meet and work with in real life: someone with great habits...or great practices?

Whether you are solidly aware of how your practices nourish you, or have just discovered the power of a healthy practice, you have chosen wisely.

Keep in mind that a personal adrenalin or endorphin rush, however you get it, isn’t a practice. Neither is having some expert nearby in case you get stuck and need coaching. Habitually leaning on someone or something else is not a practice, because practices come from within.

Want to strengthen existing practices or transform habits into practices? Are you a complete newbie to all of it? There’s an ancient technology grounded in neuroscience that’s simply orders of magnitude better with practices than anything else you’re probably using right now. You may think of it as entertainment or even intervention, but those things are just the tip of the iceberg compared to what it can really do for you.

You can experience that technology right now in real time and take what you learn with you for use anywhere and in any way you’d like. It’s not an app, eBook, or video. If you have 50 minutes to invest in changing your future for good do so right here - you’ll achieve an independence in your practices you’ve never thought possible.

And your results will speak for themselves.

Ready? Go!

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Over the course of more than 40 years of paying attention to how music works on us, Bill Protzmann has rediscovered the fundamental nature and purpose of music and accumulated a vast awareness of anthropology and sociology, as well as the effects of music, the arts, and information technology on human beings. Bill has experimented with what he has learned through performing concerts, giving lectures, facilitating workshops, and teaching classes. He first published on the powerful extensibility of music into the business realm in 2006 (here and abstract here). Ten years later, in 2016, he consolidated his work into the Musimorphic Quest. In this guided, gamified, experiential environment, participants discover and remember their innate connection to this ancient transformative technology. Also, The National Council for Behavioral Healthcare recognized Bill in 2014 with an Inspiring Hope award for Artistic Expression, the industry equivalent of winning an Oscar.

Musimorphic programs support wellness for businesses, NPOs and at-risk populations, and individuals.

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