Have You Mastered Your Business?

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Have you mastered your business? There is so much to learn to grow a successful internet endeavor, that it takes a long time to achieve mastery.

Mastery requires us to constantly produce results beyond the ordinary. To be able to do so, we must always be pushing our limits; enlarging your boundaries.

We must first aim for excelling in our chosen field. We must develop some tech expertise as part of what we need for mastery.

In our world, we see daily reminders that average is acceptable. The world suffers from the malady of mediocrity. Because we consider the average as normal, we find it difficult to move beyond this level.

To move beyond mediocrity, we must remove the things from our environment that are limiting. One way to do so is to surround ourselves with friends who ask more of us than we ask of ourselves. Think of parents or favorite teachers -- Didn't they expect us to be more than we are?

It seems to me we have an excellent opportunity here in WA because we are surrounded by people who encourage us every day and do their best to convince us we can be more than we are. It's another reason to be grateful for this tremendous community.

We will need to remove any resentment we feel toward a master. Rather, grow from the experience of interacting with them. Remain open and receptive. Make the experience like planting a seed within us that we can nourish to grow into the mastery we desire.

Actually, we are all ordinary. However, a master does not condemn himself for his ordinariness. Instead, he will embrace it and use it as a foundation upon which to build the extraordinary.

Instead of finding an excuse for not acting, the master uses his ordinariness as a vehicle for correcting his own behavior, essential in the process of building mastery.

We need to correct ourselves without invalidating or condemning ourselves. Accept the results and improve upon them. Correct, don't protect. We must be able to correct our course to achieve power and mastery.

These qualities are possible for all of us.

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Love! Love! Love! The world truly does suffer from the malady of mediocrity. I have been with WA for almost two years and came with the goal of creating a website in the Health and Fitness niche. The creative process has taken me on an unexpected journey of personal discovery. I realized how I could incorporate my hubbies online presence with my own. This led me to reconsider the goals of my site. While part of the plan is affiliate marketing, my site is primarily geared towards being a training resource to others. My hubbie is a prolific health and fitness writer with tons of content from his over 30 year career. Unfortunately until WA we were completely in the dark as to how to leverage his online presence and in turn my online presence to sell product. This idea took almost a year to implement so it has been important to be patient and not compare my results with others. Someone told me once. Slow and steady wins the race. I feel that my focus now is the mastery of social media promotion and creating new content. Thanks again for a great message!

Thanks -- glad you found it useful.

Not yet am still learning

Me, too!

Great post!
I can not say that I master my subject entirely for the moment. I learn, I still make mistakes and I start again to do better and go further. It is true that it pushes our limits, but there is no limit to excellence and reaching it takes time.

Cheers!!
Ingrid

Good point -- no limit to excellence and reaching it takes time...that is a great statement, Ingrid. We will reach it, eventually.

Great post Fran,

One of my methods of mastery is to keep repeating the required behaviour until it becomes automatic. Then move on to the next one.
One step at a time.
It's the same process that taught me to play squash. My coach would set up the training machine (it fires balls in a predetermined direction). And I would constantly repeat the same shot over and over again until it formed a "habit". Then he would move onto the next shot. "rinse and repeat"

Thanks for an enjoyable read Fran.

Cordially
Dedo

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your comment.

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti said that.
The F1 greats and I mean truly great, always had an adversary, someone who would push them to levels that on their own, it's debatable that they would have attained.
Great post Fran.

Thanks, Twack. Actually, don't you think it is one of the things the SAC does? It helps us push our boundaries.

That one part of your statement is key -- unrelenting pursuit of your goal.

Absolutely, the personification of our own personal adversary. Nice catch.

We can not choose the direction the wind blows, but we can set the sails to take us to the destination we desire. To master something we need to always have the mind of the beginner for there in that place there are so many possibilities, whereas in the mind of the expert there are few.
It can be a real work in progress to reach a level of mastery and when one gets close we can find that it is merely the starting point of a new chapter.
Thoughtful post, Fran, thank you for the reminders.


I once read where sailing can be defined as having the wind in one hand and destiny in the other. I always liked that.

Ooh, yes, I do too. It's nice to think of our businesses that way.

Gee, thoughtful comment. I'm getting some good ones. Hope folks are reading the comments, too. Thanks.

Fran,

Great teachable post which is a great reminder for all of us.

Indeed, if we think outside the box we will be able to move from being in the ordinary realm into the extraordinary one.

With good advice and good sense of direction.

Blessings

I'd love to be extraordinariy -- wouldn't you?

Well said
Mastery indeed takes time. Let's not stop where we are.

Keep us updated.
Thanks for the inspiration.

I agree -- we shall keep going.

I needed this inspiration, FKelso. I’m saving it so I can refer to it from time to time. No fluff, all directly to the point. Like it!

Oh, I am so glad to be helpful! It is great that you like it.

Nowhere near mastering it yet. J

Neither am I, but I'm still working on it.

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