From The Desk of Abdoulaye
New York City
23:23

Dear friend,

Are you a pistol or are you a shotgun. Do you use one bullet to get your target or are you a shoot and pray type of person. In this post we’re going to find out the difference between both and when to use either.

The Way Of The Shotgun

Before you can be an expert with the pistol, you must first master the shotgun. Before you have singular focus on one goal, it’s much better to explore multiple goals at the same time.

The reason for that is at first you do not know what you’re good at. This leads you to being unable to utilize the pistol you. The pistol stands for singular focus. For your pistol to yield the greatest results, you have to be pursuing something you’re truly committed to and good at.

To find out what you’re truly committed to and good at, you first need to start with a shotgun. You first need to start doing a lot of things at the same time. As you keep doing lots of things, the ones you suck at will start being apparent after a little time. The ones you don’t like will also start being apparent.

This will lead to you finding things you truly love to do. Only then, can you get read to switch from the shotgun to the pistol.

The Way Of The Pistol

Once you’ve found out what you truly love doing. Once you’ve found out what you’re also good at. Given that both things will be the same thing since you’ll love to do things you’re good at, you’re going to switch from the shotgun to the pistol.

You’re going to drop everything else and focus solely on that one thing until you master it.

Nothing else will be stealing your focus from that single task at hand. Let’s say one the shotgun approach you were doing, website design, graphic design, logo design, app development, and playing the violin.

If after doing all of those for a few months, you found out you had a natural talent for the violin and enjoyed doing it above everything else. You will completely drop all the other activities and focus solely on the violin until you’ve mastered the instrument.

All you’re attention will solely be on the violin from that point forward. A few months down the line you master the violin, you will then start doing the shotgun approach again.

You’ll be doing the shotgun approach again to figure out more things you’re good at and enjoy doing. This is a way for you to build up valuable skills. If you really enjoyed building websites the first time, you could add it to this round of the shotgun.

You’ll keep on doing the shotgun until there is a clear winner Then and only then will you switch to the pistol and focus all your energy on that one thing until you master it.

And that my friends is how you use the pistol and the shotgun to blast your way to success.

These two methods are all you need to know on how to develop skills you want and actually get good at them.

If you use this method, instead of doing a lot of things at the same time all the time, you’ll actually become good at the things you like the most. Nothings better than that.

Until next time
Your man with the trigger finger on the Pistol

Abdoulaye