1- Marginal improvement is still an improvement. Sometimes it can be scary to take on improving a new skill.  But remember, so long as you are better today than you were yesterday, then you’re going to make it.

 

2- If nobody hears you talking to yourself, are you really crazy?  I mean realistically, even if they do hear you, who cares.  But talking to yourself to practice public speaking, telling a story, or even to help remind yourself of the steps you need to do something is a pretty useful tactic, social norms be damned.

 

3- Open yourself up for an audit.  Not a financial audit mind you, unless you’re looking for that of course.  More so a skills audit, where you let one, or multiple people who know and/or work with you give you feedback on the skills you have and areas of improvement that they see in you.  Make sure that you set the ground rules about how you’re not going to take anything personally when this exercise takes place.

 

4- Pretend life is an RPG.  For those that don’t play video games, RPG stands for Role-Playing Game, where your character has skill trees and progression goals in different areas in order to develop and be better.  Real-life isn’t so different.  If you know that your life is going to require some skills that you know you’re weak on, just start grinding on your development in order to eventually achieve what you originally sought out to do.