Another Ten Minute Virtuoso tip for learning and mastering skills:
Instead of thinking you must set aside 30 minutes, an hour, or two hours to work on skill mastery (which, let’s face it, means there are many days where you do no work on your skill whatsoever . . .) do incredibly small bits of work any and every time you possibly can throughout the day.
Got two minutes before an appointment? Go through the motions of the skill you’re working on.
In the shower? Visualize doing your best in whatever high-stress environment you’ll be entering later today.
Standing in line for coffee or at the grocery store? Make a gameplan for how you are going to succeed the next time your skills are under scrutiny.
You can fill these small bits of time – 1 minute, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever you’ve got – with something useful and meaningful. You’ll be shocked at how many of these downtime intervals there are in your day. Some people report doubling the amount of time they’re working on their skill by filling these dead minutes in their day.
