It’s easy to get trapped in what we do well – rather than moving on to things that are in our Zone of Genius. What are four areas of activities and how can we keep getting better and better – and closer to our Unique Ability – every day?

Episode #662 May 03, 2019

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Gay Hendricks in his book The Big Leap recommends we divide our activities into four categories:

Zone of Incompetence

These are activities that you are not good at. They tend to be where you experience the most failure and they feel like an energy suck. You should eliminate those incompetent activities.

Zone of Competence

These are activities that you are good at but there are a lot of people who could do better. You should delegate your competent activities.

Zone of Excellence

These are things you are skilled at and have cultivated over time. You may have a reputation for these activities, but no passion. Many people keep doing them to pay the bills. You should systemize excellence activities.

Zone of Genius

These are your unique abilities. They are often innate rather than learned. These are the things you love — that you are passionate about and every day you get better and better at them. These are the things you want to expand doing. My goal is to expand to 75% of my time being spent on my unique ability activities.

Quotation:

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