Why Not Be the Best at Anything You Can?
Hey Everybody!
Today I want to share a story with you that’s been on my mind.
As some of you know, I have two young daughters, and lately, the idea of striving for excellence has been coming up a lot in our conversations. They are both very active in soccer, and in the midst of their education in elementary and middle school. I’ve realized there are some powerful parallels between teaching this concept to children and how we, as adults, approach our own goals—especially in business.
Key Takeaways:
1. Striving for Excellence Takes Effort:
Whether you're a child learning something new or an adult building a business, striving for excellence requires intentional effort. It’s easy to be mediocre at something, but if you want to become great, you need to dedicate the time and energy to make that happen. It’s the same lesson I’m trying to pass on to my kids—if you want to be good at something, you have to put in the work.
2. It's About Your Approach:
Whether it’s in school, a hobby, a sport, or building an online business, the key to becoming great lies in your approach. How much effort are you willing to dedicate? Success isn’t just handed out—it’s earned through focus, commitment, and consistency.
3. Choose Your Battles:
We can’t be excellent at everything. We don’t have enough time or energy to master every area of life, so we need to pick and choose what’s most important to us. If your goal is to become successful in business, for example, then it’s going to take that same dedication and time commitment to make it happen. But the great news is, it’s entirely possible for anyone who sets their mind to it!
Your Goal for the Week:
Whatever you’re focusing on—whether it's your business or any other area—strive for excellence. Put in the time, put in the effort, and know that your success is within reach.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this concept. What does striving for excellence mean to you? Jump down into the comments and share your feedback, I’d love to hear it! :)
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Hey Kyle! Interestingly, I just did a blog post a few hours ago on 'being the best you can be'...for me, a few of the keystones are: this takes some time so you need some patience, Rome was not built in a day. Consistent, deliberate effort is required. I made the comment in that post that 'going slow, ironically, is how you get to go fast'...what I meant is that, for me, I have always tried to be very deliberate...drilling down into the subject matter so I have mastered it...that, again, takes time and patience...gratitude is also a huge key...keeps your vibes high and that is crucial...
Great minds think alike Grant! I think we live in a world where people want to be the best at lots of stuff, but aren't willing to commit the time to make that happen....or they try to invest a bunch of time for a few weeks or months and don't have the staying power.
From my experience and what I am learning through educating my kids, is that it takes very small things done incrementally over time. That amounts to much bigger success!
I agree Kyle...that statement says it all in a nutshell...hope you're having an awesome weekend!
Grant
Great post Kyle, I must admit in the old days they use to say Garbage in Garbage out. But now a day we all have the the ability to find good quality information so it's up to us to find the time to use that information to the best of our abilities. Cheers.
Yes, absolutely the case. We can educate ourselves more efficiently than ever, and we can produce quality with more efficiency than ever. The garbage in garbage out is a recipe for failure these days.
Thanks for sharing Shaun! :)
I agree G in G out is a failure recipe. Even in the early 90's I went to a big show telling people what they should be doing to make money in the future and the show was called G in G out. Yet at the end of the show I said to my father who went with me at the time. How can they expect anything else but G in G out when all they told everyone is how they were the best and yet didn't teach anyone anything. So no teaching leads to nothing but garbage. They were creating a long list of no hopers. This I found was a big part of the early 90's people acting like they knew everything to put on shows but everyone just loses their money trying their own things. Thank god for WA turns peoples lives around.
I really need to hear this often! This work online with the WA is a real and hard challange for me, being a practical dreamy artist who would like to paint and nothing else! Lol..
But, in order to find an income that can help me live the life I so much want, I need to update my preconceived notions about myself, what I can and can't do.
I know you can do it, Karin.
With the help and support of everyone here.
Small daily actions, consistenly, ultimately brings results.
Good luck.
Richard
You are a creative mind. Creativity takes you place when you are creating art and certainly can in business, but sometimes it can lead to less productivity as you may be overthinking on the creative side of things.
Head in a niche you can talk about all day...and that you get a kick out of helping others with. That will need to a lot more productivity and a much more substantial business. :)
This is a super post-mid-week. Excellence! Mmmmm!
For me, it's all about pushing out limits and going out of my comfort zone! It's also about the balance between body and mind - and I'm sure that's the case for baseball players. But for excelling on the Internet, it's even more crucial to be balanced. It's a virtual challenge, so we must be doubly sure of our goals and skills and then add the resilience needed to cope with tech and unknown challenges, updates and everything moving at lightning speed.
Mmmmmmm. It throws up lots of spiritual questions, too. How does manoeuvring a ball around a court compare with keeping a website well-ranked and appealing.
Lots to think about here, Kyle.
Let's discuss this again!
Thanks for getting the juices flowing.
L
Really glad you enjoyed this post. It is revelational when I have to teach my kids how success works, starting with much smaller ideas and concepts but I don't think most of us have a "built in success" approach. We are taught by those around us, and often times those that are really successful in life and business have influential figures around them educating them on this sort of thing.
And yes, there are correlations to learning basketball...and becoming good at it, and becoming good at business as well. You practice like you play is a big one I am driving home with our u-13 team. Girls have the tendency to practice less on their own, and it is a social outlet and they need to be cohesive as a group to achieve success (boys don't care).
Girls need to BOND to BATTLE, Boys need to BATTLE to BOND. Something that I am also familiarizing myself with. It has to remain a social thing, combined with some principles that lead to them working hard and getting better.
Anyways, I digress. As with anything I do in life, I want to be good at coaching in the same way I want to be good at business, in the same way as I want to be good at parenting, in the same way I want to be good at XYZ.
Absolutely! Yes, it's natural to do your best! I don't know why so many people have trouble with it!!
Thank you for your words of wisdom, Kyle. I feel like every time I start getting discouraged, motivational Mondays picks me back up again. I have found perseverance to be so important in many things in life. There's plenty of days when I don't feel like exercising, but I've realized that when I just put my head down and get it done I'm always glad I did. It's not always easy to put the work in to make yourself better, but I never regret it afterwards.
Glad to hear these pick you up. The thing is we all have ebbs and flows in our business. Those should be expected, and you are going to have highs and lows as you move forward, you just have to move through those with consistency. Just the same as you do with exercise.
And you have a community of help and support you can lean on if you ever need a hand with anything at all. :)
Thank you, Kyle, for the words of motivation.
Although there could be setbacks due to one reason or another, distractions and other factors vying for those scarce resources: time, energy, and dedication.
However, with words on marble such as this post and others, inspiration, energy, direction, and light could be directed to those dark enclaves in prioritizing and decision-making, as it applies to every facets of our lives.
I wish you a nice day, Kyle.
Thanks.
- Makinde
It absolutely does. There will be setbacks and times when you simply don't want to "do" what is required to get better at something (and that will improve our futures). That is something that we all contend with.
I think it comes down to keeping things simple though...and not overthinking things. That is what will naturally lead to a lot more success. ;)
I totally agree with you, Kyle.
Simplicity and focusing on the long-term goal (future) tend to keep us on our toes and feet.
Thank you, Kyle.
- Makinde
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Hi Kyle.
I think past lesson 1 from 2018 when I joined converted better than the new training.
Why?
Because most of the new members have no idea about Affiliate Marketing, how to choose a niche and build a niche website.
That lesson was teaching what is affiliate marketing, what is niche website, how to choose a niche and build one and how much they could expect to make.
It was a road map for new members and what they should expect before upgrading to the premium membership.
But the new training training cut all the corners and got straight to choose a niche and build a website.
The problem is some of the new members do not what is a niche and how to choose one.
I have seen less conversion since the training was updated.
It is better to educate them a bit and what they should expect in the long run and that will motivate them to upgrade their membership. This is just my opinion.
My results have been similar to yours. The new platform changes are an awesome improvement, but for some reason, my conversions have dropped off.
Hi Franck,
I have seen less conversion in Wealthy Affiliate since March 2024 (this Year) and I believe it is because of some restrictions that Wealthy Affiliate have put on the server. Although, that would have to be clarified in detail but I do know that some restrictions have been added to Wealthy Affiliate, for example some countries have been banned from joining Wealthy Affiliate due to bogus accounts being created.
I agree with you about the training, I think it is good training but some members are joining and they don't seem to be creating a hub and watching the training.
I help loads of people in live chat with their questions and they have only started two days before.
NEW MEMBERS, should focus on three things, TRAINING, TRAINING and MORE TRAINING and then they will understand better about what they are supposed to be doing.
Regards
Brian
When new members arrive at the WA enrollment page the onboarding process actually walks them through choosing an interest, seeing the opportunity potential it has, and then arriving inside WA as a free starter with their first hub already created 💯. The first lessons still cover what affiliate marketing is, how it works, and the opportunity they have with the tools here inside WA. All that info is still covered, the difference is they start right away with a website and hub built for them.
Part of the confusion is when people come in, they don't know what they are looking at.
Things that used to take some time (like choosing a niche, building a website, researching keywords, creating content, finding affiliate programs), used to take a lot of time and of course had built in education. Now they are done for you.
We are actually in the process of re-thinking a version 2 of hubs, that as you build you are going to be educated on the "why" of where you are building, and we are going to make the training much more accessible so that people can find it with more ease.
If you checked out my latest Beer With Kyle, I also went through the new training design direction that we are most likely going to head. I encourage you to to check that out: Beer With Kyle: A Challenge, Starter/Training Rethink, and AI Content Advancements. Anyways, we are in a constant state of change and evolution, with a focus on user comprehensive, flow, and the ability to achieve success faster. You are going to find that conversions only continue to go up as we make changes and move forward. :)