Introduction
Your success in life is based on your SKILLS. What can you do?
If your skills are valuable, you win the game of life.
For example, to get rich, you need high-income skills. To paint masterpieces, you need several painting skills. To start a successful business, you need skills in research, advertising and management.
And once you learn a skill, you need to MASTER the skill.
Ten Reasons to Why You Should Master New Skills
or Improve Your Current Skills
Mastering a skill solves many problems like these.
- You are stuck in your job or career and need some freedom.
- Your life is not going very well, but you still have hope.
- You know that you have a lot of potential, but you feel overwhelmed and confused.
- Even though you work hard, you never get ahead.
- You need more confidence and security.
- You constantly worry about your future.
- You are not very proud of yourself.
- You pretend to know what you are doing.
- Your income is not good enough and is not improving.
- You have goals, but see no way to reach them.
Yet until now, mastering skills was difficult, especially skills that can make you rich.
85 Skills You Can Master
20 Life Skills
To succeed in life, you need many life skills. They are essential to all the other skills you need to earn money, create wonderful relationships and enjoy personal happiness. If you master skills like these, you succeed in life.
Study
English Language
Decision Making
Make People Happy
Counselling, Mediating and Coaching People Close to You
Communicating
Persistence, Determination, Make Anything Go Right
Be Anything
Imagination
Life Control
Personal Image
Present-time Focus
Personal Financial Management
Play and Win Games in Live
People Skills
Add Supporters and Eliminate Enemies
Establish and Repair Relationships
Self Motivation
Self Respect, Self Love
Change Confusion into Order
20 High-income Skills (pay $8,000 and up into the millions per month)
Business Owner
Business Executive
Management Consultant
Software Programmer
Artificial Intelligence
High-tech Security
Software Creator, Video Game Creator, App Creator
Device Inventor
Financial Management
New Businesses Starter
Investments
Public Speaking
Negotiation
Medical, Dental
Law
Engineering
Advertising
College Professor
Influencer
Best in an Industry (sports, music, acting, etc.)
25 Middle-income Skills (pay between $3000 to $8000 per month)
Tech Support
Website Creation
Video Creation
Artist, Musician, Actor
Sales
Customer Service
Tech Support
Financial Services, Accountant, Bookkeeping
Teaching and Tutoring
Counselling, Mediating and Coaching Clients
Writer, Instruction Manuals, Ads, Fiction, Non-fiction
Business Assistant
Healthcare Nurse, Assistant, Therapist
Healthcare Lab Technician
Government Work
Carpenter, Roofer, Plumber, Electrician
Restaurant Manager, Chef
Event Planner
Factory Machine Operator
Building Manager
Real Estate Agent
Truck Driver
Warehouse Worker
Store Clerk
Farm Manager
Insurance Agent
Importer/exporter
20 Low-income Skills (pay $1500 to $3000 per month)
Restaurant Worker
Cleaning Services
Delivery Driver
Landscaping
Assembly Line Work
Warehouse Worker
Janitorial Services
Security Guard
Childcare
Laundry Services
Parking Lot Attendant
Telemarketer
Call Center
Action Step: Pick the First Skill to Master
To show you how to master a skill, do these five steps.
- Pick a skill you would LOVE to master and write it at the top of a new document. It can be a current skill you want to upgrade, a skill you have always want to learn, or a new skill that would help you the most.
- Under this skill, write down who you will become. Use your imagination and see yourself as a master of this skill. BE this person right now.
- Once you master this skill, what will you DO? Write a brief description of how you will use this skill.
- Finally, list the benefits you will HAVE by mastering this skill.
- Put this document in a place where you can see it every day.
Why Mastering a Skill is So Difficult
Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply read some text material in a book or online and use it?
For example, you could read a book on how to create phone apps and then create an awesome phone app. Or you could read how to get a promotion and then get a promotion.
Unfortunately, it’s just not that easy to do. Most people cannot do it.
Why?
They need to be students, and they hate to study.
10 Reasons Why Students Hate to Study
1. They Get Confused and Frustrated
The text material makes no sense. If they do not clear up their confusion, they feel angry or even hate the subject, so they stop studying it completely. If they go back and clear up the confusion, they succeed.
2. Students Can’t See How Everything Fits Together
Students might understand what they read, but they don’t see how the pieces work together. For example, how to build a bridge by reading about it, but not going out to examine an actual bridge.
3. Memorizing Instead of Understanding
Students who memorize answers to pass tests usually forget the answers. They know that just passing tests might give them diploma, but not the skill. When they get jobs based on their diplomas, they have to pretend they know what they are doing.
4. Students Can’t Think
When they try to study, their minds turn off. Their heads might feel numb or hurt. They space out. The harder they try to study, the worse they feel. No one knows why this happens so they tell them to just take breaks. Or even worse, they call it a mental disability.
5. Pushed Too Fast
Teachers (or bosses) sometimes move students through text material too quickly. They expect everyone should understand everything right away. This makes students miss understanding important facts and details they need for their skills.
6. They Are Too Slow
Some students hate study because everyone is faster than they are. Even though they make progress slowly, they feel stupid or ashamed.
7. They Already Know it All
Some students hate to study if they believe they already know everything they need to know. While sometimes the problem is with the material or the class, more often the problem is with the students’ attitudes.
8. Bad Teaching
When students are criticized or punished for not understanding their material, they will certainly hate to study.
9. Not Challenged
Highly intelligent students go crazy if everything is too easy for them. They are so much faster than other students, they feel stopped and frustrated by slowing down. They learn more by reading encyclopedias at home!
10. Never Learned HOW to Study
Students are not taught effective methods to read and use their text material. As a result, they cannot learn the skills they need or want for successful living. When they learn the five steps for mastering a skill, they know how to learn anything they like. The LOVE to study!
Exercise: Image Loving to Study
Do you hate to study? If “Yes” do the following:
- Go through the list above and pick the ones that fit your experiences as a student.
- Close your eyes and imagine how fast and useful your education would have been without the first reason you hate to study.
- Now change the future and imagine not having that problem as you learn to master your skills.
- Repeat for all the reasons you have hated to study.
- Finally, imagine loving to study all of the skills you wish to master.
You can! Anyone can. Just follow these five steps, EXACTLY.
Everything you need to know is covered below. It is free for you to use and share, as you wish.
Five Steps to Master Any Skill
These steps are based on discoveries made by L. Ron Hubbard.
Step #1: Pick the Right Material
Once you have selected a skill to master, you now need to pick the material to read, videos to watch, courses to take or instructors to follow. The people behind your material must be masters of the skill who truly want to help you.
If the material you study is WRONG, you will not master the skill. You will waste money and valuable time. You will give up.
Even if you have no choice over the material you must study, it’s good to know which of the required material will actually help you master the skill. Give priority to that material.
Click to read “Step #1: Pick the Right Material.”
Step #2: Understand Every Word
To understand everything about a skill, you need to understand ALL the material. Every book, video, manual, chart or lecture. And the only way you can have complete understanding is by knowing what EVERY WORD in the material means.
Unfortunately, some people say, “That’s impossible. No one can understand every word.”
Other people say, “It’s not necessary. You can just make guesses.”
However, the best teachers and greatest masters, “You can and should understand everything about this skill. Every sentence and every word. It’s not hard to do.”
When you study this way, everything makes sense. It’s like tiny light bulbs light up in your mind as you study.
Click to read “Step #2″ Understand Every Word.”
Step #3: Connect the Ideas to Reality
If you study but don’t connect the ideas in your material to the real world, you can feel:
- Eye pain.
- Headaches.
- Bored.
- A funny feeling in your stomach.
- Dizzy.
- Pressure on your face.
You can eliminate these feelings and enjoy studying more than ever before with this important step.
Click to read “Step #3: Connect the Ideas to Reality.”
Step #4: Use the Best Runway Speed for You
Mastering a skill is like flying an airplane. To take off, the pilot needs to make plane go fast enough down the runway, and then lift the nose of the plane at the right angle. If the speed or angle is wrong, the plane crashes. If the gradient (speed and angle) is correct for that plane, it flies!
If you learn to use your material at the correct gradient, you feel motivated. You love to study. You can master the skill.
Everyone has a study speed that is correct for them. No one is the same. So you need to find the speed that works best for you.
Click to read “Step #4: Use the Best Runway Speed for You.”
Step #5: Practice
Remember when you learned how to ride a bike? At first, it was hard to balance and you probably fell a few times. But with practice, it became easy. Now, you can ride a bike without thinking.
Practicing is vital to mastering any skill. You attract the most attention when you practice your communication skills. You earn the most money when you practice your work or management skills. You become a professional in your field by practicing, practicing, practicing.
Fortunately, it can be a lot of fun!
Click to read “Step #5: Practice.”