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How To Become An Expert In Anything

“I want to be an expert in my field.”
Congratulations! So does everyone else. If you look inside yourself and find the confidence, then you’ll have what you need to become an expert at anything.
The problem is that so many of us don’t believe we have what it takes to achieve greatness.
Being an expert starts with a belief in yourself, not information or accreditation.
“I’m not trying to sound like Oprah or get you to hold hands with me and sing hallelujah. Stop thinking you can’t be an expert. You can. All of us can”
A belief in yourself is how you started. Starting with believing you can do it is what gives you self-approval to learn the tools you’re missing to be an expert. None of us are born experts.
We believe in ourselves, learn, fail and keep at it until suddenly, like magic, everyone calls us an expert. Believing in ourselves reminds me of a movie about a young stockbroker called Chris Gardner.
He had no money, no education and no connections in the investment world. People fall for the delusion after watching the movie that seeing a successful stockbroker who was driving a Ferrari is what changed Chris and made him an expert in stocks later on in life.
This idea is BS. No fancy car or mentor made Chris an expert. He believed in himself first before ever being inspired by a man in a suit and a chunk of metal with a Ferrari badge on it. He would have never met this mentor who helped him unless he believed in himself.
The reason we don’t believe we are an expert already.
Is because we are chasing rainbows and fantasizing about wads of cash instead of knowing that even the experts started in last place.
All of us have a little bit more knowledge about an area of life. We may not be at the expert level, but we are a few levels ahead of someone else at at least one thing.
The lesson here is understanding that being an expert requires you to start somewhere. That somewhere could be in the middle of the pack or one spot in front of last place.
You just need a better level of skill or knowledge than a small number of people. Those people are the ones you assist, teach and inspire.
The feedback you get from this group is what will eventually get you to the expert level.
We miss executing because of…
Never getting started. The person that becomes the expert gets started today. They don’t wait until they reach a certain level of success.
They don’t wait for resources or a team or anything.
“Becoming an expert is essentially being willing to start with nothing”
It’s the idea of building Rome one step at a time rather than waiting for the city to be built for you, riding into Rome on a chariot on the day of the last brick being laid, and saying “I’m going to start today!”
No one respects that type of wannabe hero who waits for the right time.
It’s never the right time to become an expert so you may as well get started now.
We have to do it.
Everything you need to become an expert at anything has to start with you. You have to do the work.
In the outsourced world we live in, we expect everyone else to deliver the outcomes that we need to become an expert. We think we can become an expert by delegating everything to a third party.
If you take this approach from the start, you’ll never gain the experience you need to become an expert in the first place. It’s the process of doing it alone in the beginning that makes us an expert later on.
We all hate listening to a so-called “expert” who has never been in the trenches and got their hands dirty. They teach using concepts learned out of books that are mostly fantasies rather than from hard work and experience.
Expert status comes from confidence.
The way I like to describe it is that once you choose the area you want to be an expert in, you get there by using confidence.
I started investing in social media a long time ago. I failed for a long time while I watched friends, colleagues, etc. build their empires. I feared that I had missed out on the big opportunity.
I realized later when I did become an expert that the opportunity had only just begun.
The confidence I had to teach others about social media even though I hadn’t got to all-star status yet myself was what allowed me to become an expert eventually. I stood in front of people with the confidence that I knew something and was not far off from being an expert.
I told myself “I don’t have to be an expert to deliver value in some form. I can still be useful to others using my current amateur status.”
Getting in the deep end will get you to expert status faster.
“A little hack you can use if you want to be an expert in anything faster is to gain leverage on yourself”
You do this by accepting an opportunity that requires an expert when you’re only halfway in your own mind to becoming one.
Saying yes to an opportunity that requires an expert forces you to learn the skills and knowledge faster to deliver on your expert promise. Leverage creates momentum every single time.
Final thought.
If we don’t expect to be an expert on day one, and we’re comfortable to get started without the expert status, we’ll eventually get what we seek.
The word ‘expert’ is more of a perception than a black and white idea that you either “are” or “are not” an expert.
You can be an expert in anything starting right now.
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How to Break the Cycles of Mediocrity and Manifest Your Greatness
There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity

In just a few weeks, we will be wrapping up 2023. Can you believe it? This year has been absolutely incredible for me.
I have seen amazing doors opened, new relationships formed and I am seeing dreams realized in my life. While this seems like the hallmarks of a great year, this has also been the most challenging year of my life. With all of the change happening in my life, I have been forced out of my comfort zone and challenged to grow in every area of my life.
I can truly say that I have made the most of my moments this year and I have used everything as a catalyst for maximizing my greatest potential.
As a revolutionary leader, I have the pleasure of consulting and advising leaders around the world to fulfill purpose, realize their greatest potential and make an impact.
I want to share some insights with you that will help you to break cycles of mediocrity and manifest your greatness.
Everything legal must come through the matrix
I am sure that some of you are wondering why I am using the term matrix. However, what you have to understand is that I am trying to make a highly complex spiritual principle practical to understand.
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, every life has an origin and I believe that origin is divine and begins with eternity. You are birthed from eternity and into time to fulfill a unique purpose and assignment in your lifetime and generation.
The matrix is simply the portal or vehicle that brings something out of the invisible realm and into tangible form. The problem with much of the teaching today is that it excludes the matrix. We are told to believe that success is instantaneous and overnight.
Nobody talks about how a dream progresses through stages beginning with visualization and ultimately culminating in manifestation. Without a matrix or portal then everything that you attempt to birth and build will be illegal.
The matrix not only makes you legal but it gives you the authority and power to function as the greatest expression of who you were created to be.
Every matrix has an incubation process
While many people admire and respect me today, I remember a time when nobody knew who I was or the significance of my message. How did I get to where I am today? I got here through an incubation process.
In other words, everything that has been destined for your life is incubating and awaiting a set time of manifestation. The problem is that most people live their entire lives idle and never initiate the incubation process.
What do I meany by that? Most people are living reckless and very few people are living intentionally. I am amazed at the number of people I have conversations with that have no vision, goals or strategies for their lives. They show great promise and they have undeniable potential.
However, without development they will die with their dreams still in them.
Everything that has been destined for your life must be incubated and converted to become realities born to time.
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin to build.” – Robert Collier
You must give expression to that which is not yet born to time
When you think about a matrix or a prophetic incubation process, you have to understand that potential is often unrealized and untapped. In other words, your potential is in raw form and your potential cannot serve you as long as it is untapped.
The thing that makes me valuable is that I have the ability to convert potential into power. I have done it in my own life and I have empowered leaders around the world to do the same. How do you convert potential into power?
First, it is important to note that you have to perceive potential. If you cannot perceive your potential then you can never cultivate your potential. In addition, you must take the time to cultivate your potential. We often get excited about our capabilities; however, we never expand our capacity in order to realize our greatest potential.
In other words, the strength of your potential is only discovered through your willingness to stretch. The more we are challenged the more we are empowered to expand our capacity for greatness. Most of all, you must begin to express your potential. The expression of potential is different for every person.
For example, the expression of my potential is best demonstrated through the thoughts, ideas, products, services, books, etc.
For another person the expression of potential may look like a screenplay, artwork, sports, scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, etc.
Regardless of the form of expression, I know that you will live empty and unfulfilled until you make the decision to express your potential. The expression of your potential gives voice to your dreams, life to your vision, significance to your moments and activates your true power.
You must manifest your greatness
As a revolutionary thinker and leader, my work has impacted people around the world. I am grateful that my life is a source of empowerment to so many people. However, before anyone could ever benefit from my life, I had to make a non-negotiable decision to become who I was born to be.
I wish I could tell you that this journey is easy and that you will get there overnight. However, in a world that celebrates us for doing we are often criticized for being. As a result, I wasted a lot of time trying to be who other people wanted me to be instead of being who I was born to be.
There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity. It is through our bravery to be vulnerable that we ultimately manifest our greatness. We do not bless the world by being a duplicate. We bless the world when we honor our difference. When you honor your difference you honor your potential.
Ultimately, your difference is how you manifest your greatness.
When you present anything but your authentic self to the world, you are playing small and you are robbing the world of your significance. Manifesting your greatness requires you to master your gifts.
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