What if “Your Good Enough” is not good enough?

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When I joined the leadership organisation to get certified as a speaker and a coach, one of the first things I picked up was “get good first”.

Of course, I was hungry to get the business going, but I needed to gain the expertise and become good.

I was really excited about all the resources available. I was like a kid in a candy store. Even to these days, I remember clearly my thrill, going through all the training videos.

I was studying, completing all the modules and exercises, absorbing everything really there was to absorb.

I was completely emerged in the process of “getting good”. I was absolutely convinced — you get good by learning.

Don’t get me wrong, you have to be good at what you do in order to be successful. However, you don’t get good just by learning, studying and going through trainings.

I missed the part that you get good by getting your feet wet and by actually doing it.

Yes, you flop a couple of times in the beginning, but that doesn’t make you “not good enough”.

Your skills and expertise are getting stronger when you do practice what you learn.

Somebody once said to me, “If you want to master anything, you have to teach it.”