It’s OK to go slow, go save- Digitally skilled people
The terms online skills or digital skills are very common to us. Despite this trendy wave that has encouraged industries and small businesses to scale their visibility beyond the horizon, we can see a notable failure trend in digital skills holders. As per the survey, less than 10% of people can make their way to success.
One of the biggest reasons so many new digitally skilled people end up failing is because they start with a TON of enthusiasm… “I’m going to create content posts twice a day for 30 days and really start driving in traffic or converting audience to buyers quickly!”
Don’t get me wrong, that initial burst of excitement and drive is encouraged… but it needs to be harnessed to your horse and used in the right way.
If you want the audience to consistently come back to your post, you need to give them a reason to. You need to understand that everything takes time to establish.
I have already written a detailed article “The 13 Worst Mistakes Why Digitally Skilled People Fail in Life — and How to Avoid Them”. Here I am narrating a little different aspect.
Okawa, a Japanese motivational speaker, and famous businessman write (I am narrating in my own words) in his book “Invincible Thinking” that success comes to you when you scale your time in the right way. Everything is time-dependent. If you will not scale your time and align your mind with it, you won’t get what you called the ideal results. Giving an example, he says that you need to plan for 50 years from now. Secondly, think about you, getting 100 years of life. This would help you in two ways.
1. You won’t be in hurry to complete it right now. You will achieve a doable speed to complete that task that will balance your life.
2. This will help you to learn and start anything at any age. For example, if you are 30 years old still you would have 70 years to complete your dreams of success. If you are 60 years old still you would have 40 years to accomplish. Even if you are 90 years old, still you have 10 years to get it done.
We spend 16 years or 18 years in our education system to get a 9–5 job. Sometimes, it takes a lot of time to find even an ordinary job after spending this many years on education. Then why we are in hurry after learning a digital skill for 3–6 months and working on it for just 3–6 months? We want to get rich over a night, we want to get a contract of 100 billion dollars’ company over a night. Why this is so?
The very common reason for this is that our motivation mentors are creating content about earning six figures dollars in just 3 months. They are creating this hurry and sense of deprivation in our minds. Why don’t we see that they have at least five to six years of experience? Did he earn in the first three months of his career?
Getting motivation is a good thing but scaling the right time for your skills is also an important thing to do. It takes 9600 minutes of working to polish your one skill to a mastery level.
So, my dear readers, It’s ok to go slow and go save. Your time will come. Just be consistent and patient. Keep going with your good work at your own speed while balancing your life.
Your valuable input in form of comments is welcome for further discussion.
