The Skill Builder
For clients who want to expand their abilities and improve their way of life
Goals
To identify a skill to attain or improve.
To positively apply that skill in your life.
Theory
A skill is something we use. We use it to achieve our goals. We develop our skills from two sources. Our ability and our talent. Talent is the more abstract: it is something we are, supposedly, born with, or, something that flourishes as we mature, i.e. singing, writing, handy-work. A talent is about bringing out the best in ourselves, i.e. performing on stage, writing a popular novel, building a home. An ability is the practical source. Our abilities are what we can do in the environment around us, i.e. typing on a keyboard, driving a car, speaking more than one language. When we improve our abilities we develop them into skills, i.e coding in multiple platforms, racing cars, or translating languages. This is taking what we can do by applying it to a specific application. We always aim for our talent and our ability to coalesce. When this occurs we find it easier to excel at our work and achieve our greater goals.
Method
Practice. Practice. Practice. Yes, I'm talking about practice. But not just hitting the gym and running drills. I'm talking about taking the lessons, advice, and complex thoughts on how to get something done and turning them into clear action. To get our talent and our ability to coalesce and become something more, that is, to become a natural part of us as instinct or intuition we need to practice. In this case we will almost never be building just one skill. All skills must respect the variety of skills that it took to get there and the variety of skills that are needed to keep it up. The practice that you will undertake will be activities that fit your life by using your strengths and embracing your weaknesses. In the end that is the achievement of skill building: to figure out what was your weakness and defeat it. The result of that achievement is character building and improving your style of life. Goals become more attainable because problems become more manageable.