Kris Krohn here with Limitless TV
and today we're talking about how you learn
new skills.
And you know what? instead of telling you what everyone else is used
to telling you, what I have heard my whole life, today i'm going to give you
some pretty counterintuitive advice and it's by far the most powerful advice
that I can give you on developing new skills
So you want to learn a new skill and growing up, I learned that there was only
one way to do that. If you want something done right do it yourself. I really grew
up in a do-it-yourself home. My dad was a train master craftsman from Germany and
so he had a construction business and and one time I remember asking my dad,
why aren't you like growing your business bigger?
because at one point he
was telling me people were asking for bid it's an estimate and he could have
grown it bigger and I said, "dad why didn't you?" And I'll never forget he was
hunched over at this fireplace with the plane in his hand and like a master he
was working it over. And with the tool in his hand he looked at me he said, "son if
you want something done right you need to do it yourself"
Well that's how I
started out my life. And I'm going to share something in a moment that is
super counterintuitive but if you need to develop new skills I'm going to share
with you a different approach to doing that. To really create a little bit of
background on that, when I got started I had this incredible rise, meteoric rise
of fortune in a four and a half year period of time where I went from being
super poor to being financially free. How all this money was growing incredible
ways. And that wealth curve, it hit a dead end after I made my first million
dollars because I was in real estate, I had bought 25 homes, and I was so caught
up in the management of these homes. I was so caught up in the fix up of these
homes. I was so caught up in the day-to-day conversations and the
contracts that even though I knew how to do everything
because I was doing it myself,
25 was my cap.
And I knew that I wanted to double
my wealth again but guess what?
how a heck was I going to do 50 homes if I was
struggling with 25?
and it got so dire that between my full-time job at the
time and all this real estate that was making me money, I couldn't juggle both.
It was time to pick one. The problem was, I had now got myself to a point where I
was making six figures on my real estate and I was now making six figures at my
job even though four years earlier, I was only making $20,000. And by the way, quick
little bonus tip here, the reason why my job kept paying anymore is because my
real estate was paying me so much more and so I ended up asking my job for a
raise and a raise and a raise. Well I just couldn't
could juggle both of them anymore. My real estate was outpacing and I had to
do something and I was going to give up one of them. I was going to give up my
day job which becoming financially free was like one of the best days of my life.
But I did something else that made my life three times better. You know it was?
I changed my philosophy.
If you want something done right
don't do it
yourself.
Hire expert. Get somebody else to jump in and help you do that. So all
of a sudden I quit my job and they started building a team that was going
to build my portfolio and guess what?
I discovered freedom.
Well you have a new
skill to learn right? And you want to know what's the best way to learn this
skill? and in a moment I want to share with you an idea that's going to start
with this thought, the skill you need to learn does it need to really be you that
learns it?
or is it more of a skill set that you need to possess on your team to
make sure something gets done?
Because this is something that I have learned in
life. That if you don't love it, if you don't enjoy it, if it's not what you
truly enjoy
then spending all your time doing it is not going to create the
fulfillment.
In which case, don't learn the skill in the first place.
Two choices,
you want to learn this new skill and it is a done for you or do it yourself. Most of
us live in a do-it-yourself solar world and I'm going to tell you right now that
no purpose is a solo journey. In fact, living a bigger grander greater life
because we got this one life to live it's not about putting your head down
and put your nose to the grindstone and living out your days that way. Do it
yourself? I only recommend doing with the things that you're passionate about and
the things that you love and the things you want to do. So number one filter as
you're considering this new skill, why?
Is it because you love it? or is it because
you think you have to? If it, if it's because you think you have to, I want you
to consider done for you. What does that mean? how do you acquire the skill? Why?
Because I believe I have experienced in my life, extensively that when I spend my
time doing the things that I feel obligated to do, the things that I don't
want to do, I tend to feel more unhappy less fulfill
and ultimately that produces a part of my destiny. And it's not the destiny I
want to walk into. However, I have a rule in life I only do what I love. So when
I'm doing what I love guess what? I'm happy. I'm excited. And everything I don't
love I go into the done-for-you leveraged model. Imagine a large gate, 40
feet long. If I were standing here right at the hinge and trying to move that
gate even if it was made of aluminum super lightweight, it would be so hard to
try and turn that massive 40. But if I go walk out to the other side my pinkie
could move that gate and swing a massive arm of leverage. So leverage is a huge
component when I consider developing a new skill. Now if you are going to take
upon you this new skill what do you need? You need a mentor. Sometimes we default
and think I need a certification or I need a degree but you know what? I don't
like wasting life. I love shortcuts. Do you like shortcuts? I'm talking about
the good legitimate ones and the shortcuts that I love is working with
people that already can do or already know how to get where I want to go like
for example, my business recently wanted to go online with social media and
Facebook and we wanted to know, hey we want to generate we want to find people
for our events and seminars through Facebook. Do it yourself would mean, hey
buy a bunch of courses, go online and spend countless hours learning and
reading and digesting. But you know what I did instead? I just went to a team that
has a long term track record of knowing how to do that online and I'm just
having to do it for me. Sometimes people think though that the difference between
do-it-yourself and done-for-you comes down to money.
It's a consideration but if you allow your pocketbook to determine who does
the skill you might find that you're stepping into a mindset of scarcity.
My little daughter right now she, my wife convinced her that if she would make
these necklaces and beads and bracelets something my wife has a great passion
for. Well my daughter was making them and she was not having fun but she put in
the work and she did it and then when it came time to actually set them up in
marketing and selling them the last couple months she made five hundred
dollars. She gets lit up marketing the things that she's made.
She does not get lit up making them. So I said, honey here's what I want you to do
this summer. She has a group of girls she hangs out with called the "pizza tigers"
11 year olds. I don't get it. But I said, go to the pizza tigers, show them how to
make these bracelets and tell him that these $12 bracelets you'll pay them $3 a
bracelet in advance just for making them. So now, she has all of her inventory
being made by other people she just does a little bit of light quality control
and then does the one thing that she loves which is marketing and selling the
jewelry.
Friends do what you love and if it's what you love then you're going to
have no problem acquiring the skill. You're going to jump in. But too often, we
put ourselves on long tracks to develop skills that we're doing for reasons
other than personal happiness, enjoyment, when it gets into responsibility and
obligation and there's this wait and there's this heaviness figure out how to
acquire that skill done for you and build your life and your skills around a
lifestyle that produces love enjoyment and happiness for you.
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