Goal Number Two - Know your competence level

Hi People, hope you have scored the first goal that I suggested to you about establishing your primary goal, your definite purpose or aim in life. So let’s walk to knowing your competence levels.

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day - 1 Timothy 1:3

It was discovered in the 1969 that people were unaware of their competence (i.e. the ability of doing something successfully or efficiently) by Martin M. Broadwell but more often attributed to Abraham Maslowin in 1970s. It was first referred to as Four stages of teaching, then four stages of learning any new skill to now four stages of competence.And with this introduction, it brings us the concept that competency is teachable and everyone can learn to do what they want and achieve success. To dive into this, what are these 4 stages of teaching, learning and competence?

First, we have the unconscious incompetence as the the first stage of competence. This is the wrong intuition -the wrong understanding without proof, evidence or conscious reasoning. To bring it better it is not understanding that you are successful person or just not know what to do to be successful in what you want to accomplish. An individual, at this stage, is not aware of the deficit of knowledge and more so the benefits of such wisdom that could better their life. It is not knowing that you can live a better life than you are in now.

Second, Conscious incompetence is where the individual recognize their weakness but also lack the knowledge of how to improve the state of weakness to strength. This is the learning from mistakes and failures and learning how to be better to move to the next level. Most of us are in between these two stages for we see our circumstances as our limitations.

We look at life with our eyes not with our mind of imagination. Mistakes and failures are our success compass to our learning, correcting, teaching and profiting from these very mistakes and failures.

Third stage - Conscious competence is the complete understanding on what and how to do one particular job or business in a better and more efficiently. This happens after learning from our mistakes and exploring new ways to do that specific task and narrowing down to the best and most suitable way to do the specific task with efficiency and the best quality.

Imagination, visualization and concentration has been used to bring out our competence to the 3rd stage and with more strength to the 4th ultimate stage.

Fourth stage- Unconscious competence is the repetition of using the complete understanding through conscious thought until it sinks in the subconscious mind and thereby; the skill becomes automatic without conscious thought. For instance activities like driving, wearing clothes, walking, cycling, swimming, eating and other basic daily activities do not require conscious thought to perform the activity.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith -1 Timothy 1:5

This is the disparity of professional work and amateur work. This stage is acquired over time and repetition of a specific task until perfection is achieved. Everyone can become a professional at his/her field of work by having the urge to improve oneself, taking initiative to know how to do, persistently seeking the best way to do things towards the right results.

This is the sowing of seed of thoughts into the subconscious mind and reaping the right results. This stage is the true awakening of the giant within you who is your mind (your conscious mind + sub-conscious mind working in harmony to give you what you want.
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life -Galations 6:7-8