What are Achievement Skills?

"I'll help you build your operating system for accomplishing what matters most."

That's what I've been telling people lately. I'm trying to develop a helpful metaphor for this Achievement Skills stuff. I'm also trying to describe what's in the book.

I'm describing a set of acquirable (and teachable) skills that work across domains. These are actions – processes and tools – that work for goals of all kinds. These skills work whether you're a gardener, an athlete, a parent, a rock star, or a student, if your task is big, small, simple, complex, or otherwise.

If you want to lift heavy weights, write poetry, run marathons, fill out your bird watching life list, start a business, meet more friends, spend more time with your family, make your bed every day, or move out – whatever your goal is – you can apply these procedures.

The outward expression of the Achievement Skills will look different depending on what your goal or your task is. Building your self-efficacy, for example, would be very different for someone working on their pilot's license from how it would be for someone who's learning origami. But the principles and the steps of the process would work the same way.

• Find your place on the self-efficacy ladder
• Stretch for 5% more.
• Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Once you're fluent in those steps for one part of your life – because you've practiced them and become adept with them – you can apply them in different areas.

What do you think? Does that sound appealing? I'm not trying to sell it to you, I'm wondering if I've effectively communicated.