Everything is a skill, literally.

Everything is a skill, literally.

And I don't mean literally like Kardashian uses the word “literally”. I actually mean everything is quite literally a skill.

Almost everything has a process that we can learn, and therefor learn that skill. Finances, fitness, relationships, speaking, writing, kissing… literally anything.

Yes, we all start at different stages of that skill level for each and every facet of life. But accepting that everything is a skill gives us the advantage of realising we can change.

An example may be, someone who is born into a financially educated family will probably be taught the skills of managing finances. And as a result will end up being a young adult who has the skills of managing finances, investments and tracking spending to ensure their wealth compounds.

On the other hand, someone like myself who was poorly educated around money has to learn the skills.

We both may have the same goal: financial freedom. But the starting point contextual to skill level is different. Their next step may be to allocate $ into an investment. Where as a skill I’m slowly learning is to track my weekly spending, and allocate $ to pay off debt every week with smaller amounts into investments.

Remember this concept applies to every single area of our lives. We can attach to the stories and ideas that we are disadvantaged because of X,Y,Z, or make a plan for how we are going to learn the skills to get to where we want to go.

Bringing me to the main point of this letter: Understanding our realistic skill level.

Understanding our realistic skill level in regards to the goal we are trying to reach will help us actually make steps consistently towards it. Rather than overestimating our skill level and never making progress.

If you want to get the blueprint to your current skill level, pick up “The Discipline Skill Set” workflow here:

https://thecontentmentnzl.wixsite.com/hunter/product-page/the-discipline-skill-set to map out our current position and where we want to be, then the steps required to get there.

How many times have we convinced ourself “I’ll start tomorrow” or in relationship to fitness “i’ll start eating healthy and going to the gym tomorrow!” and then we don’t? Because we think we are better/more disciplined than we actually are.

It would be like pretending that tomorrow $10,000 will just appear in our account even though we haven’t done anything to earn that cash.

We need to understand our actual starting point, our realistic skill level. Again in the context of fitness, this might look like the truth of “You know what, I haven’t been going to the gym, or eating well at all. I don’t have the skill level to just jump right into it. So next week I’ll do a 20 minute walk every day.”

As the days go by, the skill level increases as does the consistency creating a upwards spiral:

Leading to being able to tackle other skills related to the goal, like eating well, adding 3 days of strength training a week, and so on.

We must start at out realistic skill level to have a chance to reach our goals.

So, let’s evaluate ourself truthfully and start taking the necessary steps towards who we KNOW we can be.

Let’s get Every Last Drop from life! #ELD

Much love,

-Hunter