We often resist investing in improving our skills because the promised change feels too insignificant.

We could take a course on web design, or copywriting, or Facebook Ads, or any of a hundred other skills that we know would benefit us, both in the short and long term.

But we also know that even after taking the course we’ll be far from mastery of the skill.

To develop the level of mastery that we feel would be truly helpful to us would take many courses, months, or years of study, with a lot of practice along the way.

And so we do nothing, opting for the status quo, telling ourselves we’ll just hire someone who’s already mastered the skill when we need the task in question done.

What we miss is that no matter how small the improvement, better is better.

That even if we can’t charge a client $20k (or $2k, or $200) for a sales page after taking an intro copywriting course, improving our skill is still better than not improving it.

That improvement isn’t just about the skill we’ve chosen to level up, but how that improvement impacts the rest of what we do.

That even if the skill goes entirely unused, we’re still in a better place for having developed it.

There are few big wins, few opportunities to learn one new skill that changes everything for us in a matter of days or weeks.

Far more potent than a few big wins, however, is a series of small wins, consistently strung together over time.

Leveling up, bit by bit by bit, the progress is almost imperceptible until we look back and recognize how far we’ve come.

Even if it doesn’t feel like it in the moment, better is better.

And it’s hard to go wrong pursuing any version of it.

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