But most people won’t put in the time needed to get there. A role model of mine Alex Hormozi talks [[Volume negates luck|doing something so many times it would be unreasonable to be bad at it]]. This dispels the idea of “I’m not good at ____.” Which to me is inspiring because that means we can all do the things we want to do. We simply need to spend time building up our skill set and getting good. The two hardest parts are 1) choosing what to focus on and committing to mastery and then 2) sticking with it until we get to the promised land. Boredom and lack of immediate results is the enemy here, and believe me I know how potent these forces can be. Earlier in my career, I had the propensity to fall prey to [[Shiny object syndrome [[Shiny Object Syndrome & The Propensity To Render Ourselves Useless| the propensity to render ourselves useless|shiny object syndrome]]. When one thing wasn’t working, I went on to the next one and the next one and the next one, over and over again. Sometimes I would even come back to an idea but restart and then quit and go to the next thing AGAIN. It’s not healthy for your bank account or mental, and certainly not a path I would recommend to anyone else. The biggest breakthroughs I’ve ever had in my life were when I went all in on one thing. Early on in my career, when I started my first business at 20 years old, I was focused 100% on my marketing agency. Coolest thing was it grew. When I splintered my attention and started doing other things, it stopped growing. Looking back, I’ve found that the businesses I do best with are simple enough that I can understand them and they are easy to show results. For example, that marketing agency was a social media management business. I would create and post content for my clients’ social pages and charge a simple monthly fee. Nothing fancy. Create the work, ship the work, get paid. I ran into trouble when I tried to add on other product lines. It became too complicated. I should have stayed with the original business and kept going. Now, I sell for a living, invest for wealth building, and create content to sharpen my skills / thinking. It’s easy for me to understand what I need to do in each bucket. I’ve simplified my investing strategy so it doesn’t take any active management. And my selling / content creation are really extensions of mastering the skill of communication. In your life, do you have a one thing? Do you know where your time goes? Are the answers to those two questions the same thing? If you couldn’t answer those questions instantly and easily, you might be suffering from complexity in your life. I can tell you having recently cut out about 70% of my activity to practice this idea wholesale across my life, being spread too thin is the enemy. Focusing on your one thing is the greatest gift you can give yourself. It unblocks all areas of your life. Professionally, obviously. But my relationship improved tremendously once I wasn’t emotionally tapped from the thousand and one work issues always swimming in my head. The clarity of work lifted the walls and let the rivers flow in every other discipline. I also got better at my profession. And I can compound that by practicing more doing that one thing every day. I implore you to try it. Commit to 1 thing and practice it for 100 units of progress every day. In sales? Make 100 calls. Writing? Write for 100 minutes a day. Etc. You’ll be shocked how much better you’ll get and how quickly it happens. It will seem like the universe has opened up the heavens and a magic ladder has fallen down from the sky for you to climb to new heights. Take the first step.