Be competent

Good day guys, how is today going for you? How are the holidays? I'm sure you're having a great time.

It's been a great time at the youth retreat. I've been blessed by every time I spent here. Thank God I came for the program. I hope I'm able to meet up and write articles for the remaining days here.

Let me quickly do a review of yesterday's article.

Yesterday, I wrote about my preparations towards the new year. You know there's a saying that goes like this, if you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.

It is important that we plan the next year before entering into it. It take time to plan because you have to think of the things you wish to do, have or get done in your life. Planning is not something you can do in a rush. That's why it's advisable to always plan ahead because it gives an edge over those that do not plan. The time time they use in thinking of what to do, you'll already start executing the things you need to do because you've given yourself enough direction to guide you.

In one of my older articles, I wrote about how to get the most from planning. There are different types of goals, there yearly goals, monthly goals, weekly and even daily, there are even goals that are for 5 years duration. But what determines if those long term goals will be achieved are the short term goals like daily goals. They add up to ensure that your yearly or monthly goals are achieved. So to achieve your goals, you must ensure that you're articulate enough to understand how to get it done.

I write four things I've and I'm doing in preparation for the new year.

Firstly, I'm already praying ahead for the new year. I'm already committing the new year into God's hands. God should be first in all things. He's our source and will ever be. You to can pray where you are for the new year.

Secondly, I've started writing down my goals and objectives for the next year. It's best to write it down. It keeps on your feet instead of just having it in your head.

Thirdly, have a plan that'll help you to fulfill that yearly. You should know how you work, so it will help know and formulate a way to achieve the yearly goal.

Fourthly, evaluate where you failed to know what caused the failure so you won't make the same mistakes next year.

This is the summary of yesterday's article.

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Today's article will be on being competent.

Competency is what everybody planning to be successful or the best in a particular are of life should have. What is being competent,? It is the ability to fulfill or meet expected desired or requirements for a particular subject.

When a lot of talented people are gathered, what differentiates them is their level of competency. And competency doesn't come by magic. It's a product of hours of practice and repeated learning. It's a sum total of sacrifices made by that individual into knowing and understanding that particular thing.

Let me give the example of someone that repair cars. Let's say you have a flat tyre, if you try to do it yourself, it'll take more time than someone who repairs car. The reason for that is the level of competency. Because he's used to doing this smae thing ever and over again. He has become competent enough that he knows the shortcut to get it done and even better than you that uses a long time.

All successful people are competent, they've built structures and habits that has helped them over the years to gain mastery over a thing.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the two best footballers in the world for some years now because they added hardwork, consistency and practice to their talent. It'll remain in the history books that these great men played the game football.

Competency will one day separate you from every other person. So it's best to spend the etime and energy necessary to be the best in what you do.

Someone defined luck as competency meeting with opportunity. You must be competent so that whenever the opportunity to show yourself comes, you'll be able to show the best of yourself.

I think this should be one of the things we'll take into the new year so that we'll achieve greater success than this year.

Thanks for reading through. Have a great day.

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