Professional Business People VS Dabblers
How you choose to pursue your own business ventures determines your success or failure in multiple ways.
If you want to do better than most - then choose to follow a professional approach toward your business objectives.
But what does the term professional really mean to begin with?
If you Google or otherwise search the term "Professional" you will see all kinds of different definitions and interpretations of what it means.
Back in the days of long ago the term "Professional" typically referred to doctors and lawyers primarily, then engineers and similar endeavors that required extensive education and experience to do the work properly.
Gradually over time, it expanded to include numerous other occupations - even including people engaged in specific sports such as basketball, football, baseball, etc.
Then it became commonly used not just to describe specific industry jobs - but rather to describe a particular level of skill, competence, and a focus on continious development and improvement of specialized skills used in a particular job of some kind.
I like that definition best.
Anyone doing anything for a living can pursue it as a professional or just as a job or even as a hobby.
The difference is huge.
A professional is self-motivated and seeks out information and training on a continuous basis. A professional is always trying to get better at what they do and to stay current in all relevant things necessary to do that.
Oppose that to someone just doing a job at a minimum level - they are externally motivated by their employer and will often do little if anything above and beyond the minimums.
Focused and Systematic
Want to be better at your business?
Follow a focused and systematic approach consistently.
Seek out fundamental training and complete it. Then keep at it until you master the basics - then seek the next level of training and repeat.
Put the thing you learn to use and hone the skills.
For example - I can teach you the fundamentals of how to ride a motorcycle - but to get good at it you have to put in time actually riding mororcycles. Otherwise, no matter how much book learning or how many online courses you take or videos you watch you will never develop any real skill without DOING IT...
You can replace the word motorcycle with anything else you like. The same thing applies. You need application and experience to get better at IT -- whatever IT is to you.
Business is no different.
Learn it. Do it. Get better. Learn more. Do what you learn. Get better. Rinse and repeat.
Just something for you to keep in mind as you consider your own course in business and in life.
Have a great day - and make it count!
Best regards,
L.D. Sewell
Author, Instructor, Entrepreneur
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Thanks, LD!
I'm at a professional level in my clinic, I have close to 50k hours of bodywork under my belt, abd I'm still learning every day.
Now to put that repetitive action to this blogging business. You've motivated me, with your motorcycle riding analogy, to blog more often.
Keri on thriving!
Al
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As usual, a good post.
I must be a professional, as I spend hours at working on my site. Yesterday had a lot of catching up to do and was at it from 7:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. My eyes were tired. That was too much professionalism. Balance is necessary.
That is a quite professional ; )