What are the tiny chunks/ steps you’ll need to get right, to be able to do the skill you’re wanting to learn? Break the skill down to it’s absolute tiniest parts so that the parts are so small that you know you can master them. If you aren’t sure of the small parts of the skill, then google the skill and look for tutorials that break the skill down into it’s parts, interview someone who can already do the skill, or work with a Master Coach.
Watching and listening to someone else doing that skill allows you to absorb the picture of the skill and it’s overarching look and feel, until you can picture doing it yourself.
In relation to the skill you’re wanting to develop, who can you watch and learn from? And when and how will you watch them? Will you watch them perform on TV, or will you watch them perform live?
I get a bunch of emails from people saying, “I love your Bottom-line Bookclub idea and it’s so well executed! How do you do it?” A lot of these folks are coaches and therapists working to share tools to help people to transform their lives and be more of the person they want to be.
So, because of all these requests, I’ve consolidated my biggest mistakes and lessons learned and the best secrets I picked up along the way as I developed my Bottom-line Bookclub and I’ve put it all together in a report, so you don’t have to make the same mistakes. And, starting 26 July, I’m running a mastermind group where I’ll guide you to create your first digital program and set it up so it’s ready to share in just 6 weeks.
If you want to learn a particular skill, surround yourself with people who already have that skill, fill your office with things that relate to that skill, attend events related to that skill, browse bookstores and other stores that sell equipment related to that skill, read books and watch TV shows related to that skill… in short, fill your life with ignition triggers:
* Create a vision board about your skill
* Join or start a meetup on the topic of your skill
* Buy some books on the topic of your skill
* Follow some blogs on the topic of your skill
For the most part, ignition is something that comes from within the learner and you can’t manufacture or force it, or try to make yourself or anyone else feel it. It feels like it happens to you. You see or hear something, it feels great and you have an unconscious and mysterious compulsion to learn more about it.
Does the skill that you’ve chosen to develop naturally ignite you?
* What makes you smile spontaneously?
* What are you doing when you lose track of time?
* What do you tend to choose to do in your spare time?
* What are you doing when you feel strong and free?
* What are you doing when you have high energy and clear thinking?
If the skill you’re wanting to work on is the answer to these questions, then go for it and commit to deep practicing this skill. Your answers to these questions will point you in the direction of the tasks and skills that naturally ignite you and those are the tasks and skills worth deep practicing.
Pick a skill that you’ve been learning or would like to develop.
Which of the 5 learning stages are you currently in with that particular skill?
* Unconscious incompetence – I don’t know what I don’t know.
* Conscious incompetence – I know what I don’t know, but I don’t know how to fix it.
* Conscious competence – I know what I don’t know and I can fix it if I think it through and do it carefully.
* Unconscious competence – I can do it without thinking.
* Conscious competence of unconscious competence – I can do it without thinking and then think back an analyze what I did in the light of the theory.
What do you need to do to move to the next stage in the learning process with this skill?
