I just got back from a root canal. WooHooo!!! Such exciting news. No, not really. And no one should become an expert patient when it comes to having root canals done. 

Still, practicing anything that isn’t something you look forward to makes it easier and builds expertise. 

I’m an expert dish-doer. I can just get ‘em done. I don’t look forward to it and I also don’t run away from it. I’m an expert cat-box cleaner. I don’t look forward to it. It needs doing, and when it’s done, everyone is happier. Besides dishes and cat boxes, I’m an expert blogger. I’ve been blogging for years; every Wednesday, I produce a blog called Wednesdays With Wayne

(check out www.WaynePernell.com/blog).

Do I look forward to writing? Sometimes yes. Sometimes it’s just inconvenient. And yet, I get it done.

What about you? 

What have you put off that you might become more of an expert at and can get done so much faster and easier now? Your bills? Your taxes? Your sales calls? Your content creation? 

Or maybe it’s that tough conversation at work or at home you’ve been putting off.

Maybe it’s searching for that new job or partner or car or credit line or science article.

Maybe you need to get better at shutting down social media. 

It all takes practice. And when you commit to it, you need to follow through.

Only in following through can you become trustworthy. Trustworthy with yourself and with those you made the promise to. You first. You’ve got to become trustworthy with yourself and not start bargaining about what you said you’d do and the follow through you told yourself you’d have and then when something comes up, you get side-tracked.

That stuff happens to everyone, even the most driven and most successful. The difference is the time spent in the sidetrack. Moments vs. minutes to hours. 

Practice.

Commit.

Prove yourself trustworthy.

That’s how you’ll do the hard stuff till it gets easy!