I will serve no foreign god

One of the giants in South African Gospel music said these words in a very deep spiritually cleaning song, the one and only Ms Hlengiwe Mhlaba.

She uttered these words for religious purposes, but I do not think it can be restricted to that. All we have to do is alter it a bit and work with it. Here goes something…

The principle is whatever it is that you have devoted yourself to, don’t part time it, don’t give half attention. Give it your all and NO PLAN B.

I heard somewhere that goals are very jealous, you can’t raise them as twins. Your goal becomes your one and only child. Yes you can be multi-talented but to master something, you have to be DEVOTED to it. Devoted is loosely defined as:

“Very loving or loyal.”

The first step is for you to love whatever it is that you want to pursue in life. That love keeps you up at night… That love makes you say “time flies” and makes you feel as if 24 hours are just not enough… That love taps into reservoirs of energy you didn’t know existed in you… So love whatever it is that you want to pursue.

Then next is loyalty, be loyal to your purpose. Eat, sleep & breathe it, damn it, shit it too. That is if you want to master it. A study was done and it was observed that all masters in their respective fields have invested a minimum of 10 000 hours into their craft. That is total devotion, in one interview Will Smith called it “obsession on your craft”…

Talent is the identification of what you can do naturally, when it has been identified, practise will develop the skills needed to master it.

- Mzukhology