YOUR FIRST STEP TO MASTERY IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY!

I was fortunate enough to have a book SKILL author Dr. Chris Ahmad referred to me by my good friend Dr. DiMaio, Orthopedic Surgeon, Long Island Orthopedic & Joint Replacement. Dr. Ahmad has done a masterful job of distilling how to achieve mastery in any professional into easy to read 40 Principles.

I have just read half the book this morning and here are a few "Pearls" that Dr. Ahmad offers to us about Achieving Mastery.

• The first step toward Mastery is taking responsibility
• Talent is not bestowed upon us, find out how to get yours
• Dissect your mentor and flatter him/her with imitation
• Perfect your favorite endeavor and use the skills you learned to master something harder
• Write your results from today, ideas for tomorrow and goals for next week
• Dreams are where we want to end up, Goals are how you get there
• Baseball pitcher great Mario Rivera ..."I see young player who want to become famous before they are good. They are concerned about recognition before their skills are developed. It used to be you got good first. and then recognition followed.
• There are hard skills & soft skills and there is not hard skill more important than mastering the basics.