Today, we are going to explore something that can accelerate your progress and keep you closer to your target -- tools.
Problem: You resist the investment of time, effort, and money to find the tools to help you and fall back on your "hard work."
You are misaligned on hard work
You don't understand the return tools provide
You don't appreciate the skills created with tools
You are thinking from a place of scarcityPossibility: You know the power of the right tools and use the investment of time, effort, and money to propel your journey.
You know hard work, applied smartly, is powerful
You see beyond the investment to the return
You understand that new tools equal new skills
You think from a place of abundance
Embrace abundance
Everything you do is a system
Systems require tools
Return defines the investment
Learn to evaluate return on investment (ROI)
Develop the ability to learn new things
Set aside "development" time
Create a lens for innovation
Identify a bottleneck in the work you do
Write down what causes the bottleneck
What tool could overcome the bottleneck?
What is the time, effort, and money investment to get that tool?
What action are you willing to take to solve the bottleneck?
Act.