From the Desk of Keith Hafner

Challenges and Skills.

You are about to undertake a big challenge.  Go back to school and get your degree.  Commit to earning your Black Belt.  Start an entrepreneurial business.

You quickly realize that if you are to be successful, you will need to increase your skills.  You will need more confidence;  more self-discipline;  more courage and persistence.

And it’s true. You will need those qualities.

But here is a different way of looking at it.  And, if you can understand this lesson, you will equip yourself for success in a way you’ve never dreamed of.

You don’t need the skills so you can handle the challenge.

You need the challenge so you can develop the skills.

Challenges come and go.  However, the skills you develop, along the way, are equity.  They stay with you from situation to situation.