If You Want To Get Good At Something, Do It Every Day!!!

Real Life Development - If You Want To Get Good At Something, Do It Every Day!!!

 - Daily Habits Equal Daily Attitudes Towards Your Success.

 

"If you want to get good at something, do it every day" - These were the words spoken by the self-development author and psychologist Robert Anton Wilson at the end of an autobiographical movie about his life called Maybe Logic. The particular section of Maybe logic in question stated a core success principle relating to human life and self development which is the concept that people who are successful in their lives are people who make a daily habit of doing something they wish to do which moves them towards their own personal success.

I class personal success as value, the type of value which allows those who wish to be higher achievers in human society to develop the daily skills and the daily disciplines to enrich their lives and the lives of those around them. For some people, this enrichment of value can be solely found in the development of their bank account and personal income. For others enrichment comes from their profession and professional relationships they have with others. Regardless of what is considered enrichment and value to you, you and I can both agree that it is important to do what we love and to do it at least for a short amount of time every day.

Many people will spend at least an hour or more a day doing something that they love while they are relaxing. Be this love eating, talking with loved ones, watching television or surfing the internet. Either way this pastime of relaxation allows each of us to develop the daily habit of relaxation while for others, this small amount of time is used to develop a specific skill.

Learning a specific skill for a hobby or recreation is important. For some, relaxation, recreation and work can be considered one and  the same. Some people are able to find and land their dream job while others pursue their daily habits of personal passion such as surfing, playing a musical instrument, painting or in my case continue the on-going development of my blog and my ability to write books which I can release into the market place. Regardless of the intent as to why we do what we do, each of us do these activities because they provide personal enrichment and they also provide value. The type of value which reinforces itself as yet another daily habit.

A daily habit is the type of habit which taken to its extreme will allow you to further develop yourself as a human being, allowing this development to enrich your ability to provide value to yourself and others in material wealth, relationship, health and in the development of your psychology with a positive and outgoing mental attitude. Yet unfortunately, when push comes to shove many people are not prepared to do the work to enhance their lot in life nor in learning about who they are, in the development of necessary life skills. Life skills are developed by anyone and everyone when they just allow themselves to have a little time to explore themselves, what they are interested in and continue to do so every day. 

DO IT EVERY DAY!!!

If people would only put a little time into developing who they are each and every day, they would develop the life skills over an entire life time to become superior human beings. Perhaps this cost in the development of a human being would be the use of a few minutes to an hour every day on developing who they are and finding what it takes to develop a necessary series of skills which can be used as a skill set.  

Alas, most people I have noticed are more interested in their own instant gratifications and would prefer to reach a temporary state of superior success or superior consciousness through the use and abuse of drugs, over expenditure on their credit card and garnishing of their wages, the use-abuse and gluttony of food and the lack of desire to increase the state of their health conditions as a result.

The solution to this I believe relies upon the development of a series of daily habits, the type of habits which are aimed at replacing or totally removing anything which is disastrous or undesirable in your life including some toxic people, in order to start to notice your success in life and ability to make a name for yourself. 

My relationship coach calls this a development or 'the development' where you start to change yourself and your daily habits i.e. who you are at such a fundamental level that within twelve to eighteen months you are an entirely different person. A daily habit in your development which would lead to positive change in the next 12-18 months if done every day would be as simple as learning how to keep a diary on what you have done every day, to remembering to water the plants daily around the house or telling that special person who is in your life that you love them more often I.e. daily. 

Because daily habits lead to a high success in their repetition, the more you practice them the more you will notice their affects in your life time and time again. Ultimately making you increasingly excellent at what you do, be that in the home, with family, friends, in private meditation or at the workplace of your chosen profession.  In the workplace application of positive and effective daily habits can lead you to having a profession and a specialisation that no one else around you is allowed to have. I.e. John is good at holding business meetings and Mary is good at hosting events. John would not host events and Mary would not hold business meetings.

The reason for this is that they have not yet developed their personal habits to such an extent as specialists that they could do each others jobs, however with further training and application of personal habits on a day to day basis they surely could do so. Considering that daily habits are important in the development of a specialist it must be noticed that most people who are specialists in their lives had to start somewhere at some time. Be the specialist a scientist, doctor, writer, business person or bus driver. Each had to learn a series of repeatable and daily habits which ensured that they were not very effective on the job when they first started. Yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year daily repeatable habits have made these specialists effective at what they do - Ultimately making them experts in their field.

What I can guarantee for you, is that like the specialists that if you want to start something new, do something different - Then at first you are going to suck at it. But I can also guarantee that after a day, a week, a month and a year, let alone five years that you will be an utter expert at what you do as a daily habit. The key to mastering any daily habit and becoming proficient at it enough in order to call it a skill, is based upon persistence. Persistence causes experience by making what you have made conscious with your will and effort unconscious, meaning that you don't have to think about the daily habit after some time of doing it time and time again, day after day. You just do the desired habit without thinking. An example of this is taking out that trash every day until you don't realize that you are doing it because you now have your mind on other habits and the tasks of your life.

Once this effect occurs in your life, it means that you have developed a daily habit which ensures your continued life success. The ability for you to succeed is not hard, what is hard is to constantly change something for which you have taken for granted for so long in your life and has become an ingrained habit. But let's take the advice of Robert Anton Wilson and find a skill, a daily habit of discipline which we enjoy or want to change and when we find it... We do it every day.

Count. Daniel John Fogarty Sunday 20th of October 2013.