This will take 4 minutes..no no.. this is not a boring theoretical inspirational message...its a practical analysis.Hope it will help you same way as it did to me:: You Are Born With All The Knowledge & Experience You Need You’re living in a world where you are bombarded with how inadequate you are. The news constantly tells you how another 19 year old created a software that some giant company bought for a frigging $1 billion. Then you look at yourself and feel like sh*t for not doing the same. But that’s not all, right after you’re done feeling sh*t for yourself, you start looking for ways to gain more knowledge, gain more experience, to become “better” than you are, to do things like ‘someone’ else. This creates a vicious feedback look within you. This sucks. Because you feel you don’t have knowledge and experience, you go out trying to get more knowledge and experience. But then when you have more knowledge and experience, you realize you are still inadequate. This is not because you don’t have the knowledge or experience. That’s a lie. You have all the knowledge and experience you will ever need. It is because you don’t have resourcefulness. Or more importantly you haven’t developed resourcefulness, yet. But What Does ‘Becoming Resourceful’ Mean? Resourcefulness is the feeling and confidence within you, that you can take care of things, that you can do things, that no matter how bad the situation is, you will overcome it. It’s not your fault that you don’t have resourcefulness. Our generation is the most over-parented generation EVER. Google ‘most over parented generation’ and you’ll find articles form Forbes, WSJ, Telegraph and 31 million other results telling you how having your parents do everything for you keeps you from growing up. This is a serious problem. If you don’t make mistakes and learn from them, you don’t develop confidence in yourself to take care of yourself. If you never got burnt by matches as a kid, then you’ll be a little bit scared of fire. But if you did, then learned how to handle them, you’ll be fine. This act of developing the courage to take care of yourself is what I mean by resourcefulness. You haven’t developed it, yet. You can do things today to develop your resourcefulness. How Do You Develop Resourcefulness? Go do things that you are uncomfortable doing. Do them alone, without telling your friends or family. I’m not saying go down a shady street and buy cocaine. I’m saying go down the aisle in your grocery store and talk to the person who’s shopping there. Strike up a conversation, see if you can find something common with them. You don’t have to ask their number, but just introduce yourself to a stranger. If you’re really feeling brave, then goto a soup kitchen and volunteer for the night. The more things that you do outside of your comfort zone the better you will become. The more you will develop your resourcefulness. This is a skill like any other. Practice it and it gets better. The best part is becoming resourceful in one area of your life will help you in every other area of your life also. But A Word Of Warning! Don’t tell anyone that you’re doing this, or that you’ve done something outside of your comfort zone. If you do tell them - then you lose all the resourcefulness you developed. It comes out as steam when you talk about it. You’re doing it for yourself, not to boast to your friends how brave you are. Think about this for a second. The less you talk about it the more it develops in yourself. The more you talk about it the less effective it is. Sure there is the pleasure of telling your friends and family that you did something amazing, something outside of your comfort zone. Bottle it up. Write it out if you have to in a secret diary. But don’t talk about it. This is for you. This is your secret. This is how you build resourcefulness.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:19:00 +0000
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