Adding maximum value for yourself or those close to you in life OR for your customers, partners and staff in business comes with mastering key areas.
The further you can master something, the more you stand out and the more others will seek your methods, experience and knowledge.
Deciding what to master is a KEY part of mastering life. Your entire life and business journey will be in pursuit of this mastery – and often, helping others achieve the same.
So, what does it take to TRULY master your field or goal?
1. Understand the best plan
Do some quick, yet thorough research on how those who have progressed or achieved your goals to find the best plan.
This does NOT mean the plan needs to be 100% certain – in fact it never will be this certain.
Instead, think of this as the initial roadmap, subject to improvement as you go
2. Focus on the MOST important 20% of that plan
Accomplishing ANYTHING in business or life comes down to doing 10-20% of things relentlessly.
When we coach entrepreneurs to build their signature digital product revenue stream, we make SURE to identify the absolute critical activities such as finding hot ideas, developing product and content each day, getting the message out on the most leveraged platforms daily.
Sure, planning, accounting, email, working with contractors and staff, etc… are all required, but ONLY if you do the most important stuff first.
If you neglect the critical activities, there is no product, no business and no customer to support.
Know the KEY activities that you MUST perform – no matter what.
3. Longer-Term Outlook
Have a long-term outlook.
When you commit to your plan for a decade, the way you approach your life, the activities and interim milestones and results is different.
It’s not that it will take you that long to see results…it often does not.
The mental gains from looking at your life or business in terms of years vs weeks is often the difference between mastering something and just DOING something
4. Cultivate Belief
In order for you to stick to your plan, to maintain enthusiasm, stay positive and influence those around you (as well as yourself), make it a daily action to build and reinforce belief in yourself and your ability to eventually achieve your goals.
You can do this by studying inspirational people who have achieved what you seek.
Reinforce past examples of you achieving different things in your life.
It can start with learning to walk, learning to ride a bike, learning to get through school, something positive from your first job, etc…
Any win is important!
Have a list of your wins and review them daily…we tend to forget what we have ALL achieved and instead focus on the negative
5. Adjust/improve
Just because we need to stick with the plan, do it over-and-over and be relentlessly persistent DOES NOT mean we have to do it the exact same way if there are better ways.
A BIG part of mastering anything is the feedback loop.
When “Doing” is the goal, each action ends with feedback that can help you guide future behavior.
Just don’t quit.
Ask yourself, “could I have done anything better or different” and give yourself the leeway to try.
The fastest path to mastery is through cultivating a continuous feedback loop.
Mastery should be a lifestyle not a destination.
When you look at mastering those things that we love or that we know will help us get closer to the things we love (Ex looking after your health), the process and journey of achieving mastery becomes LIFE itself.
What will you seek to master next?
