Weekly Alluviance 70 | Overcoming the Top 10 Struggles of Modern Day Mastery Part 2

YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF ALLUVIANCE!

Mastery is so darn tough, remember? Last week we discussed the top 10 struggles on the path to modern day mastery. You can read Part 1 here, or just skip ahead to the good stuff.

This week, we're picking up where we left off, but this time it's not all doom and gloom and struggle. Now we'll deliver the big payoff of how sales professionals and leaders can really excel in this anti-mastery environment.

Here's the best strategies, tactics, mindsets, reframes and inner game work we've come up with around each category:

10. Fear of failure

Reframe failure to feedback through meditation and visualizations to disconnect the data from any perceived personal deficiencies to take the heaviness out of it and repackage it for improvement

9. Discomfort with impatience

Delayed gratification exercises can be some of the most challenging inner game work for some people, but the payoff to reinforce the value of waiting can have a huge lasting impact

8. Shrinking attention spans

This might sound absurd, but there are great apps to help improve concentration and focus, although sometimes it's best to kick it old school with a complex leather-bound book for some deep reading

7. Vanishing mentorships

Just because it's becoming less common to have deep mentorship and tutelage under a master doesn't mean it's impossible - go out there and find yourself a mentor who is worth their weight in gold

6. Multitasking hysteria

Single-tasking practice is becoming all the rage through timeblocks, intention setting, mindful transitions between tasks and a more deliberate approach to becoming singularly focused

5. The deep work deficit

Develop the rituals and habits that clearly delineate the start and end of deep work periods so that you, your brain, and everyone you work with knows that it's time for distraction-free work

4. Economic pressure

There's no easy answer here or quick fix as our industry is filled