CONSISTENCY OVER DISTRACTION: THE DISCIPLINE OF MASTERY

 In the name of the Almighty whose guidance is nothing but the only true light and by His guidance, He has brought so many of us closer or close to what we've chosen to do. 

Growing up in a country like ours and the kind of environment that was created around many of us, the obsession to do many things is not something new and it's making a lot of us becoming very excellent at practically nothing. 

How many times have you personally changed from this to that? How many times have we changed course in our business just because we noticed a friend flourish at a particular one and then we all decided to venture into the same thing, without considering the pros and cons? 

Many of us today, we admire people who can almost do everything and we celebrate them so much, but when it comes to the real impact, influence and value, we come to understand that it's how deep they've gone that makes them a winner, not the variety. It's not how much you've done something but how well you did it. 

There was a comment under a YouTube video... "Don't be afraid of someone who knows 1000 techniques but the one who knows 1 technique but has done it 1000 times" 

That comment was so deep that the temptation for this write up became high because it somehow explains how I lots of people are trapped in starting well, but finding it hard to stay. 

Today it's graphic design, tomorrow it's trading. Another week it's coding and the next month, it's content creation. By the time we get to the end of it, we know we've touched almost everything but mastered nothing. 

Let's be real with ourselves, even though the truth might be uncomfortable, mastering something is  boring at times. But it requires doing it over and over again, it demands patience and it also forces you to continue when the excitement you had the start is no longer there, and this is exactly where and why most of us quit. 

When we all do something once, it's exciting. Doing it ten times makes it interesting and doing it a hundred times makes it tiring, that is boring. But what do you feel about a thousand times? Only the great ones can keep going at that pace and that's where Mastery is born. 

The people we all admire today plus the the inspiration they give us, is not because they are found at the top of their field because they knew many and different things, but they are there because they stayed with one thing long enough to understand it deeply. 

Is there a single person that is so good at something and has never failed at it? Very sure there isn't. And why is that? Instead of quitting and jumping from one thing to another, they learned from their failure, improved on it, refined it and made it better and most especially, they repeated that winning pattern again and again until what was one time difficult became an easy thing that doesn't need so much effort.

The problem with chasing so many skills is not just the confusion it creates. Your energy becomes scattered, your focus turn weak, you become busy and not effective, and in the end, the results might even become inconsistent. And when that happens, frustration sets in because you feel like you're working hard but not moving forward. 

Mastery of any skill matter is built on intentional repetition, not mindless doing but conscious improvement. 

There's a local adage that says "You should not burn two irons in a single flame". Another one says "If you go after two chickens at the same time, you may end up losing both of them rather than when you go after them, one at a time" 

To become better in a particular area, it requires you asking yourself, "How can I do this better than yesterday?" It's about correcting the small mistakes, it's trying to make small details better than it was and showing up even when you don't feel like it. And there again, this is where discipline comes in because mastering something is not by motivation but discipline. Motivation can be very inconsistent but discipline is more reliable and it keeps you moving. It's motivation that makes you start but it's discipline that makes you stay. 

As we've always recommended, what if you pick a skill today and stay committed to it for the next 365 days? No excuses, no jumping around or chasing trends, no do overs and no comparison with others in that same field. Just you, your skill or craft and your consistent effort. 

If you're able to do that, do you even know what would happen? You would not just become better at it, you're going to change into a better version of you because the world doesn't reward those who knows everything, but the ones who are committed to the one thing they know how to do well. 

If you become so good at something, you cannot be ignored. And that can only be achieved through consistency, going deep and becoming a master of that craft. 

So instead of asking around every time about another a new skill you can learn because it's trending, you should ask about how you can be a master at the one you do because in the end, it's not about how many things you know, but about what you can do exceptionally well. 

"It is not the best sports that wins the medal in the Olympics, only the best sport men do" 

Choose one thing rightly and carefully, stay with it, do it over and over again to correct the mistakes in the process, master it and when you become that best version of you in what you know, don't forget the packaging aspect, refine it. 

That's how the real growth happens. Real value is built and that's how ordinary people become extraordinary to the core. 

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