No Skill Is Insignificant Or Too Small
In the world of today, a lot of people are so obsessed with flashy success, massive achievement, and some really big talents. However, they tend to overlook the power that is in embedded in the small skill that some people may overlook. A lot of the little things that people often overlook might hold the key to some major milestones. The small seemingly insignificant skill you acquire today can make the biggest difference in your life.
Having a skill is without recourse to what you studied in school. I have a friend who is a lawyer by training but she owns a barbering salon which she opens in the evening when she comes back from work. She gets so much customers in the evening, and for the fact that she is a woman cutting men's hairs also helped give her the publicity. Adorably, she makes more from the salon in a month that what she makes from her white collar job. The power of skills.
When I was in school, there was this Non-Governmental Organisation that came to our school to teach the students a particular skill for free. A lot of students saw the skill as insignificant, while some even saw it as demeaning and below par for their level. They thought that it was too small for them to waste their few days on. Well, some of us joined the class and learnt the skill, after which we were given a certificate of participation. Few months after the training, during our period of internship, a particular opening came up in a very enviable organisation, but one of their requirements for employment was that the applicant was to possess that particular skill.
At that point, a lot of the students who wished to do their internship in the organisation was running around looking for where to quickly learn the skill because it has become very necessary for them. Some even had to pay some very outrageous fees just to gain the skill and the certification. The same skill that was taught free some months back, which they brushed aside and thought was insignificant was what they were willingly to pay heavily for. Some of the students who could not afford the payment watched the opportunity pass them by. This taught me a very vital lesson in life - no skill is insignificant or too small.
A lot of the great successes that you see today are built on small skills that may be acquired a very long time ago. Take the case of the Wright Brothers - they were skilled in bicycle repair. They did not consider the skill insignificant, rather they gave it all their efforts and became really good at it. It was from the ideas they got from fixing bicycles that they developed the idea of the first ever flying machine, which later became an airplane. Any opportunity you have to acquire a skill should not be overlooked even if you do not see the immediate use of it. The extra skill that you acquire may be what will give you the edge that you need in this highly competitive world.
Small skills can also include a whole lot of other things like budgeting, using basic digital tools, time management, planning, writing clearly, building daily habits, etc. All these, with time, will become the building blocks for bigger success in the future. People tend to applaud big achievements, but they tend forget that these things do not just come overnight but can be results of years of working behind the scene and fine-tuning these skills. Everyone may be doing the same thing, but the way you do your own, the skill you put into it, may just be what will create the uniqueness and the difference, and will make you to stand out.
It is worthy to note that most times, greatness does not really come as a result of having one massive skill, but can come by mastering many small skills, and then knowing how to use them effectively. You do not have to wait until a major opportunity comes knocking so as to acquire a big skill. You can start up a skill with what you have at hand and build up to greatness. Sometimes as little as reading a page of book daily, learning a line of code daily, even learning how to greet people so as to build good network, can make a big difference in one's life.
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