Doing It Poorly




I recently posted this piece under Pastoral Excellence, and I’m leaving it there because the application to spiritual leadership is real.

But the same idea also belongs in Leaning Leadership Ladder and here, because it speaks directly to leadership development, professional growth, communication, coaching, and the process of turning concepts into embodied skill.



Zig Ziglar is often credited with saying:

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly — until you can learn to do it well.”

That line is not an excuse for carelessness. It is a correction to paralysis.

We do not usually become skillful by waiting until we feel ready. We become skillful by beginning, rehearsing mentally, acting, noticing what happened, correcting, and trying again.

The learning loop is simple:

Begin. Rehearse. Act. Notice. Correct. Repeat.

Practice does not automatically make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Corrected practice makes better.

Read the LinkedIn article here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-poorly-rehearse-mentally-correct-wisely-tom-sims-ncahc

Medium discovery piece:
https://medium.com/@tomsims/do-it-poorly-until-you-learn-to-do-it-well-e3d84eac003f?sk=276f7b4fa7d966aaf5d098b4ab5a5970

Substack deeper dive with tools:
https://tomsims.substack.com/p/do-it-poorly-until-you-learn-to-do

More links:
https://linktr.ee/tomsims

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