How to Become More Capable

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Now let's begin. Capability is you can do it. You can do it every time. It is like a strength, if you will. It is something that is you are highly capable at that thing. You are at another level of skill that it shows up every single time. But here's the truth. Capability. Capability is as much as a mindset, as a competence. Let me give you an example. A lot of extremely smart people who can handle the problem don't handle the problem because they don't feel capable. It's like, yeah, I know it, but I don't do it. How many of you know someone who's very competent, has great skills but lacks the capability to execute anyone? See, there's a difference between knowledge and execution, which is often the difference between competence and capability. See, competence is like the foundation and a stored value. But it's expressed through execution capability, right? I know so many smart people who don't do anything. Not to be rude, but you understand they got the knowledge, skill, talent, who knows, someone extremely talented but completely incapable. They're different things. It's like, oh my God, it's such a different thing. So I want you to teach your yourself this capability. You want to develop capability. It means you get in the mix, you do the work, you show up, you try. Capability means I know I will execute. That's what to me, confident capabilities, I will execute. How do you do that? You have to be more consistent in your execution. Decision is great, action is required. We've got to get you to execute more of those to do lists. You want more success, you want more joy, you want more confidence, you gotta execute more of the plans. I know we got some of you. I would say this, and I got in trouble on the Internet for this.

One year early in my career and.

I'm fine with it. I got piled on by a bunch of people. They were so mad I said this, I said, I would rather be a hot mess of bold action taking than a perfectly organized coward. People didn't like that. I used the word coward. I'm still okay with it. I still stick to that. I would rather have five days of great action taking than the perfect 20 vision boards. See, capability is self trust to take the action. It's not just do I know how to take the action, it's I'm an action taker, I'm going to show up, I'm capable to handle this, I will do this. I trust in myself to handle this, to execute, to execute again and again and again and again and again. That's capability. And I really want you to develop that in your heart and in your soul by checking off the simplest of things each day by if you have a list of three to do lists, if you wrote down your three top priorities for the day, do those first. Before you do your social media, before you reply to everyone's DMs inbox, voice message text, it's like, listen, I have so many people, they spend all day just checking their email to reply to everybody else. Now that's fine if that's your job. If that's customer service, do that. That's your job. But if you're an entrepreneur as an example, or you have a whole list of other priorities and you're just checking into other people's agendas all day to meet all their obligations and you keep missing your key priorities day after day after Day after day, your brain doesn't feel like you're capable anymore. Even though you might be smart, you're competent, but your brain doesn't believe you're capable. You know what I mean? It's so important to understand this. I know if you're a parent, you understand this difference. Lots of kids can learn things and have things and have skills and abilities, but if they don't put them and apply them, they don't sense that feeling of capability. And now your smart child, your child full of strength, talent and ability, doesn't run on the field, doesn't take the action, doesn't finish the test, doesn't go for it. They don't feel capable. Why don't they feel capable? They don't have a pattern of action taking. You've got to develop the pattern of, of taking the action, the pattern of taking the action. Better yet, the pattern of taking the action to complete the key priorities. So all I want you to do as a daily, simple habit, every morning we do it in the High performance planner. I write down my key priorities for the day. Do those first, get those out of the way, make that happen. Maybe that's your morning. Maybe. For me, I didn't feel capable of my career for a long time because I was replying to everybody. And then I did a simple thing. I said, you know what? I no phone calls till 1pm in the afternoon, my time. That leaves the morning to do the most important work. Because I do the most important work almost every morning of my life, I feel incredibly capable. Give me a task list. Give me that log is happening in the brain. Good job today. Good job today. Good job today. Good job. That consistency, that congruence, develop the capability. Now I feel capable, and I am capable because I executed. Because I executed so many times, I developed a skill. You all follow. This is so important, okay, this is so important, this capability piece. And the best part is when you get some capability. If you'll do what we talked about earlier, self reflection, you'll start to go, look what I did there.

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You have to integrate the wins. Integrate the wins. When you do something, take a moment and go, I did that, you know, yesterday. Here's how simple this is. Yesterday. After months of thinking, strategizing and planning, I created this presentation and I sent the email and it took me about two hours to pull this off. But I just, I decided, you know what, this has been on my big dream list for a while. I'm going to make this pitch. It's a pitch. And so I said, okay, I'm going to get it done. And I finally sent it. And I'll tell you what, I walked.

Out in the other room.

Denise is like, what's up with you? I was just feeling so good. I said, I'm going to have a nice glass of wine with dinner tonight to celebrate. I did this. It was sending an email, but it was somebody like, I'll have a glass of wine every time I send an email. Yes, sure. Thank you. But here's the thing. You got to celebrate the days that you are capable when you do something good. Go. Good job. Pat yourself on the back a little bit. You have to integrate the win into your identity. If you took all of your strengths and all of your good days and all the wonderful things you have done in your life and you really sat with them for a minute. You let them come in, you let them mentally stack where you just thought of that time. You finished that big project, you launched that thing, you got the negotiation, you won the award. You handled that tough situation at the park with the kids well. You didn't get brought into their drama. You just took some time for yourself and you let that integrate into the identity of who you were. You would feel an internal goodness. And see when you integrate the good of what you're doing in life, you feel good. And I don't Mean that with hyperbole. I mean, you sense goodness again. When I sense that I'm good. Because one, in my opinion, I'm lucky to be here. My clarity says, if you are alive, have reverence for life. You're a child of God. What a gift. You are so lucky. You're blessed to be here. So for me, I feel capable as a person. I feel I've been given gifts and strengths. Yeah, I had to develop a lot of them just like you did. But because I trust that I was given those gifts or those strengths or this life, I feel capable. I feel like, you ever heard that thing you can do all things through Christ, which strengthens you. You ever heard about that? It's like, oh, yeah, I'm capable because I got someone watching over me. My dad's up there, my creator's up there, Grandma's up there. I feel good. I feel good. I feel capable. Because you know what? I've done some good things. Okay? You let that come in. You let that goodness come in. Some of you haven't let your goodness shine for a while. Your vibrancy, your joy, that sense of soul or spirit or flow or femininity or masculinity. That part of you that's like this. Because why hasn't it gone out like that? Because you haven't brought it in and stored it up. See, all you've done is deplete yourself for other people without those moments of self reflection about the goodness that you're doing for other people, about the goodness you're doing in the world, about the virtues and the values you stand for. You haven't let that stuff come in and sit in like situation like form into the cement of the foundation of your character. And so you wonder why it doesn't emanate. Why doesn't the goodness come out? Because you haven't sat with the goodness that's already within. Why doesn't the goodness spread out? Because you haven't sat with the goodness that's already there. If you knew half of how good of a human you are, the choices that you've made, to be on something like this, to raise your hand for personal development, to want to learn from other people, I already know something about you. And if you knew how beautiful that intention was alone. If you gave yourself the gift of going good job for showing up to learn, good job for taking notes like, I celebrate that. I raise my hand to learn. When I go to a seminar or I buy a course, I pat myself, I'm like, good job. You're learning, kid. You're not done yet. And I feel good about myself as a learner. I think learners tend to be more confident than people who think they know everything, you know, because people who think they know everything are terrified that their worldview might break. Learners like, I'll adapt. I'll figure it out. Right? That adaptation mentality, that learning mentality gives me confidence. I believe in my ability to figure things out.

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