Motor skills are what you develop, by repeating a task over a period of time. The more you practice, the more hard wired the skills become in the neurons of your brain.
You get so good at what you do, that muscle memory takes over. You don’t even need to think about what you’re doing. You just do it.
But not everyone can. You see…
If you’re comfortable in your situation, in that dull numbing pain, afraid of change… your chances of success are pretty much doomed. I’m talking about certain individuals that would rather endure a life long comfort and acceptance of continued failure, than take a chance on success.
A quick case in point is this guy named Casey. He went to a friend of a friend of mine for some coaching. Casey claimed that the coach didn’t help him.
So he went to my friend. Casey claimed that my friend couldn’t help him either.
So then Casey came to me. We worked through The Uncovery process together. We had a couple of intense sessions, where I helped him decide what he wanted to do in life.
Casey came away from the coaching sessions with a complete action plan. Everything from market research to advertising. All that was left to do, was for him build the web properties for affiliate marketing.
About a week later Casey asked me to review his websites, because he was having some problems. I looked at his websites and asked why all his links lead to the same place.
He said, “I don’t know how to change them.”
What the #%@*! Wait a minute.
You went to a friend of a friend, then you went to my friend, now you’ve come to me. You’ve had how many hours of coaching and consulting? And you don’t even know how to make hypertext links?
I fired Casey on the spot. No wonder he claimed that all other coaches failed to help him. Casey didn’t have even the most basic computer skills.
It wasn’t the fault of the other coaches at all. Casey failed himself, because he didn’t have the focus, determination, or drive to learn. He didn’t make a commitment to practice and learn the craft.
So let me ask you… How did you learn to walk? How did you learn how to drive? How did do you learn how to skate?
You can’t get good at something by reading books, or watching videos, or absorbing theory and statistics. You learn by doing.
For example, you might know a lot about baseball, but it won’t help you play the game. You have to suit up, get on the field, and strike out a few times, if you’re going to get any good at it.
And that’s my point…
At some point, you have to put away the textbooks. You have to put away all the learning. It’s time for commencement. (And if you look that word up, it means beginning, not end.) You actually have to start the doing.
It’s only by doing, that you learn the computer skills. It’s burned into your brain that Command+Shift+3 takes a screen shot. Command+V is paste. Command+Q is quit.
That’s what I’m talking about… motor skills. You don’t have to think. You don’t have remember. You just know.
It’s much like a musician playing a familiar song. Their fingers dance all over the keyboard. Have you ever wondered how they learned to play like that?
Through practice.
They’ve hard wired the neurons, the motor skills, to play that song. Now they don’t even have to think about it.
They practiced, and practiced, and practiced, until they don’t have to think about it. The fingers know all the notes. Now they can be engaged in the performance with the audience.
It’s the same thing when it comes to you.
If you want to become a hockey player, you can’t play the game from the stands. You’ve got to lace up the skates, get on the ice and be willing to fall on your butt a few times.
It’s the same thing, if want to have a successful online business. The motor skills are critical.
You must learn how to type, make web pages and join affiliate programs. You must master the computer and its operating system. You must learn how to move the mouse, know where the menus are, what the commands do… everything.
I think it was a friend of Zig Ziglar who said, “You don’t have to be good to start, but you have to start to get good.”
It’s time to put away the books and start doing it instead. If you want to have a successful business online, practice your motor skills and master the computer. It’s the first and most important step.
