“For a change, don’t add new things in your life as a new year’s resolution. Instead, do more of what’s already working for you and stop doing things that are a time-waste.” – Salil Jha
The crowd goes wild…
Jumping to their feet….
Clapping, applauding, screaming, whistling…
As the final act, the show stopper…
A fantastic combination of useless tricks…
He comes out doing the crab walk, while making his eyes look left then right…
One at a time, while wiggling his ears AND rolling his tongue and belly in sync!
Oh, and he’s doing this fifty feet in the air on a tight rope!
“Wow, if only I had a useless trick.”
“You don’t know any useless tricks.”
“Not really…well, I can speak some Latin.”
“Can you do any cool tricks?”
“I can do seven tongue tricks.”
“Show me.”
“How about you?”
“I can wiggle my ears, one at a time even.”
“Ok, how about you?…”
Maybe this is the year I will focus all my spare time on learning a useless skill!
That is my new year’s resolution. Oh wait; I have been doing that for two decades. Learning this and learning that, adding to my repertoire of skills differentiating myself from the pack; creating a more valuable me by investing in me. I have been focusing on becoming a standout, the cream of the crop, a jack of all trades but a master of none. Come to think of it, where’s the value in that?
“Use it or lose it”, words of wisdom spoken from my three time high school Latin teacher, Fr. Flynn. Yes, I said Latin, and yes I took it for three years, five if you count junior high. Five whole years learning a dead language, now that’s a useless trick. Although, I could pronounce just about any word you sent my way, and quite possibly know its origin. So maybe it’s not completely useless. But I’m sure I could have chosen more wisely.
Truth be told, I chose Latin because of the two years I took in junior high. Easy ride in high school, more on that later. The point is, we all have skills and talents. We all have strengths and weaknesses. Looking at these and really acknowledging them is important. When we do this we see what are assets and liabilities really are. We realize some skills serve us better than others. Some are useless, some are valuable. Knowing which ones serve us the most is important.
Unless you’re an entertainer or performer of some sort, focusing on developing and perfecting more useless tricks is not going to serve you very well. It’s probably not the best use of your time. Kind of like that fourth and fifth year of Latin. Unless, of course, you’re planning on becoming a scientist or priest.
Focus on developing your strengths and mitigating your weaknesses. Spend more time on what is working as the opening quote says. I am all for learning, growing, and developing ourselves but not at the expense of our most important skills and talents; the ones that really drive us and our success. So, choose to do more of the things that work for you. The things that make you better at being you.
That is how you dominate. Invest in your strengths, grow them, perfect them and continue to do more of what works for you. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
It sounds easy enough right? If you have that ADD entrepreneur brain like me, it’s not. It takes practice…and a lot of it. Focus is hard for me. I always have so many things going at once. So much so that it is hard to complete anything. And, my head tells me I have to do it all myself.
“What an order, I can’t go through with it! Remember that? We need to retrain our brain so we can think in terms of maximum service. How can I best serve myself and others? Focus on your strengths and fill the gaps with people that have the skills you don’t. Then keep practicing one day at a time. Remember it takes about sixty six days for something new to become a habit. Habit creation leads to domination.
But don’t let it slide, consistency is the key. So be sure stay tuned and come back to stay the course.
Talk Soon,
Kevin W @LEAP272
Owner-Operator
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