Mastery

Today, I was thinking about what it takes to master something. To become good at something and truly master it requires first learning about it from others who know how to do it.  As we’ve all heard in many a commercial, the next step is to just do it. And then do it some more. 

To master something, you must practice it until you reach the stage where you are conscious that the more you learn, the more you realize there is left to learn. Mastery is not a short process. It’s a month or, more likely, years-long investment into yourself. The gift is that life continuously reveals new ways for each of us to contribute to the world around us.  I am grateful to serve as a life coach in accord with my heart's natural stirrings and talent. 

Until you find your next new way to serve life, here are some helpful notes on becoming good at something you want to pour your heart into:

• Be a beginner who does not look for shortcuts and a student that helps others find their way.

• Start from where you are, give everything that you used to be, and know you still have time to become.

• Do what you were born to do.

• Look for the blessing in every conflict.

• Dare to risk failure and face your fears rather than avoiding them. 

• Have the patience to see reality objectively and take the time to fill your heart with quiet silence.

• Do not allow your thoughts, feelings, and actions to overpower the whispers of your heart. 

• Remember to add what is uniquely you.

• Have an open heart and an Infinite love revealed in your every action.

• Embrace purpose, creativity, and autonomy, and develop strength, wisdom, compassion, surrender, and acceptance.

• Practices detachment and use frustration to inform you where you can practice more.

• Respect the simplicity of creativity and truth 

• Recognize mastery in the reaching, not in the arriving.

• Be present in the now and let tomorrow be determined by today.