It seems like just about everyone wants their life to be a masterpiece. That’s too big of a challenge even for the most skilled.

The catch-all, beneath the surface pattern driving this desire can be summed up as, “I want it all.” Truth be told, you couldn’t handle it all even if it were possible.

Most often, when we go for it all, we wind up with none, or, at least, very little.

Look at professional athletes. They excel in a certain area of their sport and fall short in another. Take golf for example. Some professional golfers can drive the ball a mile, but can’t putt. Others have mastered the sand trap (please call them bunkers) but can’t make a chip shot around the green.

Even Tiger Woods & Phil Mickelson, unarguably two of the best players in the game today, can’t keep their drives on the fairway with consistency.

People who approach mastery have mastered a piece.

They have found their niche and they fill it. This doesn’t mean that they give up attempting to improve weaknesses; the great ones always do. They just don’t go for it all, at least not at once.

The Grasshopper was in a rhyming mood this morning and said this: “Going for it all leads to a fall.” Again, Tiger Woods is the Humpty Dumpty example.

The NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) people call mastering a piece “Chunking down.” You just can’t eat a whole cow at once.

When you break something down in to pieces, it’s a lot easier to master. People become experts on their piece. Doctors, lawyers and Indian Chiefs specialize and it makes them special.

Whether in your profession or your personal life, it pays to go micro. You can’t be all things to all people and if you keep trying, you’ll miss every time.

Like with all great adventures, start small. Find a manageable piece and polish it to perfection. You may not be the world’s best baker but no one will be able to beat your brownies.

Everyone is good at something. Master that piece. You won’t get it all, but you’ll get all that matters.

All the best,

John

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