The Importance of Practicing Your Craft

In this episode, I talk about mastering your craft but never with the goal of perfecting it, just making time for it and letting it shape you to be the person you’re meant to become. Learn how practicing your craft can help you tame your ego, make you more humble, let you do your best work and create real impact in the world. Show notes: * Finding meaning thanks to your craft * What I look for in a platform to share my content * How your craft makes you humble * Removing the barriers so it can be just you and your craft * The power of free content * Timing in craftsmanship Mentioned: * Finding The 1 Thing You Were Born to Do [book] * Interview with Adam of Blogging Wizard * Blog to Biz System Transcript What inspired this episode is the fact that I was at a cute cafe on a canal in my city earlier today, it was 29 degrees, I was sending the weekly newsletter, I had just published a new interview with a successful blogger, and later that day a copy of my new book arrived in the mail so I could check out how it looks before launching it next week. I’ve been having many days like that lately, mostly because of the good weather and the creative energy I’ve been filled with.  And all problems and hardships of life aside, life can be good when you do what you love, truly care about it, have your own little world online, and get to practice your craft. I suggest that even if nothing else in your life seems to be going the way you want it to, you focus on your craft. It can take you places (physically, but also spiritually and emotionally). Finding meaning thanks to your craft I can’t exactly describe to you the kind of peace and satisfaction you feel when you’re making time for your craft and having a regular practice, ideally daily. It’s something that has to be experienced. It gives you meaning. It gives you a reason to keep going. You know it matters, and that’s enough to get you to wake up with purpose. If you’ve found a way to share your craft with the world and even help others with that, you did a good job. Then it can become your legacy, your career, your business, your gift to the world. Another big benefit of practicing your craft is that it guides you back to yourself, it lets you be your most authentic self and embrace that. I’ve had the chance to observe many creators in different industries in the last 10 years, and there are real ones and there are fake ones. I can’t spend much time on the platform of a fake one, one that’s just making money, pretending to be something they are not, trying to convince people to buy, imitating other business owners, or anything like that.