# 042 - How to be the Best You Can be in Your World
You may already believe you’re the actually the best at what you do. Especially if If you’re a man (for this tends to be how most men think) you will think that you are better than average at most things – driving especially. But chances are, you’re not. Chances are, you’re settling in, settling for “it will do”, getting along, doing the best you can in the circumstances you’re in. There are challenges and things are tough. They’re tough for everyone. But as they say you can make progress or you can make excuses but you can’t make both. When I said that to some of the 1-2-1 clients I talk to each month, it prickled a few egos and there was a bit of push-back. Which is good in a way as it usually means that progress will be on the other sde of a breakthrough. But it’s actually quite amazing when I ask this or talk about this, how quickly people will metaphorically stand up and defend not just the status quo, the way things “are” but the inevitability of it. We’ve been taught since forever that the world needs people who join in and who are followers, not just leaders. Not everyone can lead, can they? We’ve been taught that fitting in can be a lot better for us than standing out, (I’m thinking of the first year in High School here) and that good enough is just that…it’s good enough. Which might have been fine in a previous time. It might have been fine if your anonymously working for a company. It’s certainly fine if you work in the public sector – I know many people who work in the public sector and they are almost actively encouraged to do the basics or even less - … but that doesn’t work so well in the private sector. It certainly doesn’t work so well if you’re self-employed in what is in effect a winner-takes-all world. So what to do about it? Provide value at fair exchange. Then leverage it. Anyone, anyone who has done well in business has provided value at fair exchange. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t make any money. It’s as simpe as that. So if you’re going to do it….do it well and you will be rewarded accordingly. And if you’re going to do it well, do it better. The way you become the best in your world is by quitting the stuff where you can’t be the best. Delegate it out. Leverage it. That leaves you the resources to invest in getting through the slump and the drag in time towards becoming the best. It’s that simple. Stop doing what you’re not good at and concentrate on what you are good at. All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important. Join us on Facebook. You can also get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack and on Instagram email us on: [email protected]