Well, since you didn't specify those three rules, I'll do it for you.

Rule #1: Practice.
Rule #2: More practice
Rule #3: Even more practice.

Hmmm.. seems I've read this somewhere before.. (see pretty much all of the above posts).

Nothing succeeds like success. The more you practice your approach and landing techniques the more you will learn about your plane and the better you will be. This means practice during all conditions.

As Gray Beard said, pattern scores you on both the take off and landing. That's where I started practicing my landings, was as I was learning the basics of the Sportsman Category of Pattern flying. Although I don't compete, I took a lot away from all those drills my instructor gave me and, even today, run my first tank of fuel doing nothing but honing up on my approaches and landings as well as doing some "emergency" procedures.. ie: climb high somewhere in the sky and drop the throttle to idle and bring it in to a good clean approach to landing.. apply power on final, go around, and do it again somwhere else in the sky.

All this does two things: It keeps you sharp in your approaches and gets you in tune to when (not if.. it will happen to us all) that engine quits.

CGr.