This takes practice and humility.
Practice, practice and practice some more.
Why? For no other reason, other than to be better.
When we take care in our performance, for no other reason than to perform, we feel good about what we’re doing. We like ourselves, others like us and we are good to be around because we serve others well in our workforce.
When we commit to improving our skills and practicing what we’re doing most at work, honing the most basic elements of our job, it enables us to create mastery in our role. When you take the time, energy, and focus to improve the most basic element of your craft, your external environment including progress and rewards, take care of themselves. Internal to you, there’s nothing more fulfilling than being good at your job.
However, this will require an attitude of humility.
For those who are at work, we need to persist and practice, and for those who are trying to improve a wider range of life skills, we need to train with humility.
Why is this?
For our potential to be exposed and fully realised, it most certainly needs to be under a microscope, subject to continuous pressure. Despite what you might think, in this environment, we’re more than likely going to come up short of our expectations. Our ability to work through these challenging failure points ensures the next level of performance. We typically only see this opportunity to improve when we come up against or reach our skill limits.
Whilst many of our talents allow us to pick things up quickly, their true strength isn’t realised until they have been exposed to considerable testing. If we are able to grow into these tests, we create great value, not only for ourselves, but for others as well.
A word of caution.
If when you go to work it comes too easy, or you’re looking for easy, you’ve picked up some bloody terrible mindset habits. It would be in your best interests to change these habits as soon as possible or risk what could become a miserable and unfulfilling working life. If you’re over confident and think its easy, you’re being fuelled by your ego and you’re probably setting yourself up for a big fall.
Mastery requires practice and an attitude of humility. Rewards for you and those you serve are enormous and totally worth it.
So what time are you going to put aside to take extra care in your next level of performance?
