Now that you've decided that you want to learn a new skill, you must be asking yourself, so what skills should I be learning right now, Brendon Burchard, in his book, high performance habits, as a lot of questions that you should ask yourself in order to find what skills you should be learning right now. So the first question is, what is your primary field of interest? And what are the three skills that are most important in that field? So maybe you want to learn about leadership? So your primary field of interest is leadership, but what are the three skills related with that? So I would say communication.
People who are leaders also learn a lot quicker. So they are quick learners. And maybe they they know the art of taking action and changing their approach along along the journey so they know when they're when they've making mistakes and that they need to change their approach. So those three skills are The ones that you should be focusing on in order to find these three skills, you can do a quick Google search, like what are the most three important skills on learning guitar, playing drums, learning Adobe Photoshop, maybe designing anything. So the second question you should ask yourself is, what are you going to do to develop those three skills? Do you need to read a book, get a coach, practice, go to a seminar, anything and then when are you going to do those things and set up a plan now and commit yourself to those things now, but remember by doing one thing at a time, so we're not going to learn two three different skills at the same time because that will be confusing for you.
So pick one, start with one, then make the plan for the second one, do the second one, the third one and that's it. Very important to plan that ahead. So that will be no excuses and remember what Brendon Burchard said if you leave your growth to read dumbness, you will always live in the land of mediocrity. So one of the skills related with leadership was communication. So what can you do to start learning how to be a better communicator. Now, you can take an online course on communication skills, you can read one book on the topic, search like top 10 books on communication and read one of those, you can also attend to a seminar on being a good communicator.
And you can practice your communication skills everyday by approaching your employees or your friends or even your family. So, make a plan of those things. So take an online course on communication skills today, read one book, I'm going to start it next week, attend a seminar. So it's like one month from now and practice my communication skills with other people. You can start it right now. Put those things in your calendar because if you don't, you won't actually be doing those high performers block their calendars to learn new skills so they know it Exactly the three skills they are going to learn in order to progress in their projects on their careers on their future and those skills will make them more successful in the long run.
So look to the future indentify key skills and then obsessively practice those skills.