Day 27 (twenty-seven) of 365 days
Although, no formula can be applied for guaranteed success. However, a continued introspection of ourselves combined with learning can enable us to master our skills and craft our journey. The steps to mastery are;
- Determine the skills and abilities that would be useful to the world.
- You set clear goals for mastering those rare and valuable skills.
- You engage in deliberate practice, pushing your skills and abilities to mastery
- As you get better you begin to develop confidence in yourself.
- As you develop confidence, you begin to deeply enjoy what you’re doing and become very passionate about it. What you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
- As your expertise confidence and passion grows, you begin to see your work as a ‘calling’ because you have developed such mastery of rare and useful skills, you have the perspective and context to discern the ‘cutting edge’ of your field.
- You can then begin making distinct connections and projections into what has been dubbed. In other words, that’s how you become the innovator and a shaper of society and global change.
If you want to love what you do, abandon the mindset of what the world can offer you rather adopt the craftsman mindset of what you can offer the world. As you develop
proficiency through mastering rare and valuable skills, you begin to reshape your passion and personality and develop confidence. Confidence however, isn’t what leads to success, instead successful behavior is what leads to confidence.
You are the shaper of your identity, happiness, and the impact of your life’s work. There are many problems in the world awaiting a solver, challenge yourself and move out of your comfort zone. Take the path of an influencer and create positive impact.
Let me leave you with a statement to ponder on DREAM, IMAGINE AND EXPLORE when you reach a Vienna, a new phase in life does not mean the end of a journey, but the beginning of a new expedition. We should always continue to travel — there’s always something new we can do — a new dream, a new zenith. When our plane lands there’s always a bus waiting to take us somewhere else. The beauty of today’s world however, is that we can change direction midflight.
