Mastery…………it’s scary but the possibility of doing otherwise does not exist………..

 

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It’s risky and it’s scary. It might not work. To declare in public that I am going to be a master in something totally unfamiliar.   But I will do it anyway!

 

Long ago, like many people who transitioned from the pre internet era to the internet era, we outsourced stuff like website design, even typing (when I first started working there were typist pools in companies whose job was just to type out faxes and reports), sending telexes etc…………..and many of us still think of it that way……………

 

In the past couple of years, I started feeling that something monumental was about to happen to me. That there was something that was shifting.

 

My conclusion: unless I want to become irrelevant, I better re-examine the skills I used to think I mastered and look at new skills that I tried to avoid because it feels hard to face the fact.

 

One such skill is website building. I used to treat this like printing of a brochure: better hand it over to the printers and let him take charge.

 

This now looks as absurd to me as asking someone to build my wardrobe for me, and to decide to put on my clothes for me. That would just not be me.

 

My website is about the only thing people who don’t know me have to decide whether to “date” me or my business. It’s the first impression, and I only have one chance to create that first impression.

 

I better do it myself. Have no choice but to master the website building skills. Just like my dressing skills.  

 

Master this skill, Maurice!!