NURTURE YOUR SKILL

I’m a guy that enjoys going to the gym once too often (maybe a little too often. You know how people say you can never have one too many, well…)

I’ve heard all the names a gym bug can be called- Mr Muscle, Ramapanta, Superman- all of them (well, at least I’d like to believe). 

But the bedrock of my mentioning the gym is that every person that works out knows that RIPS and CUTS define the body.

Now you have to realise that this applies in your ability to be great at what you do (no, not the rips and cuts). In your hustle; your grind; your journey to your greatness, SKILL and HARDWORK define your success. 

A friend of mine once recommended that I read an article, and the article spoke about how the neo world doesn’t care about who you are, but rather what you can offer. Day by day I’m learning the truth in this, myself.

A lot of people are afraid to quit their jobs, or move up in their jobs because they don’t nurture their skill. They don’t pay attention to their skill. 

THE WORLD CAN’T KNOCK YOU DOWN WHEN YOU ARE EXCEPTIONAL AT WHAT YOU DO!

Dr Martin Luther King Jr himself once said, “Leave a mark wherever it is that you are; with whatever it is that you do. If you are a contractor, be the best damn contractor that has ever been. If you are a street cleaner, be the best street cleaner that people can even realise when the street hasn’t been cleaned by you”.

Nurture your skill. Develop your skill. Work every day, very hard to build your skill. Learn new techniques or critiques, benchmarks, limits, flaws, advantages and disadvantages. Whatever it takes to excel in what you do. 

Your skill is your most valuable asset in life (it goes without saying that next to your mind). But without skill, you’re just roaming. Taking whatever comes your way, only because there is nowhere else that you can go.

People aren’t happy with what they do. A lot of people complain every day, but they rarely do anything about it, not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t. They don’t have the skill.

You have to understand that I’m not saying that when you have skill you won’t lose your job, or you will automatically become the worlds’ most sought after, whatever it is that you do. But I’m saying that when you have a skill, and you have developed your skill, and you know you’re good at it, then getting fired, or in fact quitting is not a nightmare for you, because they may have taken away your salary, but not your skill.

There’s someone out there who is looking for what you have to offer. Someone out there is looking for that exact skill. Sometimes, even, that someone is yourself. When you have the necessary skill, you stand a chance to develop yourself, develop your community. With the skill you open opportunity. You have a chance. You have what many think they don’t have; options. 

NURTURE YOUR SKILL!

In a diversifying world such as the one we live in, one has to realise that the future isn’t something you walk into, or arrive at. 

The future is created!

Close your eyes and envision whatever it is you think the future will look like 30 years from now. I can promise you, 99,9% of the things you thought of are creations (technology, infrastructure, industrialisation). 99,9% of the future that is now (follow, it’s the future because people in the 1980s thought of it that way) was created. 

Creation requires thinkers and doers, but more importantly, it requires… (drum roll)… yes, you have it, SKILL!

So nurture your skill, because it is the most important asset you’ll ever own (that is next to your mind). 

Now…

Rise and Shine!