Stop looking for the quick fix
Why is it that so many people are always looking for shortcuts, quick fixes and ways to hack their journey through life. There seems to be an obsession with do things quicker, instead of doing things better.
Now, don’t get get me wrong… I live by the mantra ‘done beats perfect’ so I am definitely NOT suggesting you take forever trying to achieve something. What I am suggesting is that more people need to decide what their ‘thing’ is and commit to mastering it, instead of always looking for the easy or quicker path.
Repetition is the mother of skill
Bruce Lee famously said “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
This is what I am talking about. The first time the man practiced that kick it was done, but he didn’t stop there. He kept on doing until he got better and better and eventually mastered that kick.
What is the thing you need to practice 10,000 times?
Don’t Stop Learning
It is important never to feel like you know it all, because, certainly from my experience, the minute you think you know it all is when you actually discover you know nothing. So I am not ask you to stop learning new skills or to become closed minded in your approach.
It is essential to be learning new skills (if you’re not growing, you’re dying), but life isn’t just about learning new things.
It’s also about mastering the things you know already. It’s about progression in those areas that you’re already good at to become even better at them.
Focus on the skills that never expire, the skills that when you’ve got them and you develop them, you can apply them into so many different areas of your life. Focus on the transferrable skills. The evergreen skills.
Life Hacks
Long-term success is not about knowing latest hack or the latest tactic.
Do you want to find the shortcut or do you want longevity?
If you think about the journey in life, you are born, you live for a while and then one day you die. Do you want a shortcut?
Do you want life to end quicker? I suspect not, and if you don’t want life end quicker, why do you want to get to everything else to end quicker?
Why not learn to enjoy the journey instead, and embrace all the steps along the way?
Master the skills that never go out of date and embrace the person it helps you to become.
