We’re just beginning the eighth run of my course, Compelling Communication Skills…
And something remarkable has happened.
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Every week, we hold a live lecture:
To discuss what we’ve covered in that week’s module.
But also to build on it with some new communication insights, whether writing, storytelling, or public speaking.
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Every single run of the course, for almost two years now, I've re-visited the lectures.
And every single time I've made changes to try to improve them.
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So, I duly went about my duty, ready for this current run of the course…
Which is when the previously mentioned something remarkable happened.
I realised I didn’t need to make any amendments or alterations.
None. Zero. Zip.
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Which took me by surprise. So much so that I repeated the process the following day.
But happily, again I found nothing I needed to change.
I was still feeling I must be missing something, so I bounced the lectures off a colleague.
And they came back with the same response.
- Nothing needed to change.
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So, to the point of this blog:
If you want to be a success, achieve splendid things, fulfil your potential and do the best you possibly can…
There’s that tedious, irritating, annoying step you have to go through.
- Work. Or, to be more accurate:
- Hard work. Or, to be even more accurate:
- Bloody hard work.
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The only reason the lectures on Compelling Communication Skills are now the best, most engaging and most effective they can be…
Is because of two years of revisions.
And that - don’t forget - following the year of planning and preparation we put in as we created the course.
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Hard work:
There’s just no substitute for it, whatever you might be doing.
In fact, in conclusion, as I often say, in my usual hilarious manner:
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To be an overnight success…
Takes years of work.
