The right specialist beside you is a channel for knowledge and experience. Here are the professionals I bring into my life and what it gives me.
The right specialist in your life can be a channel for the knowledge and experience you need. This applies to every area of life.
A financial adviser can help you sort out the money question and reduce financial stress.
A health specialist can help you fix your nutrition, your sleep and your rest. A trainer will help you build the body you want to see in the mirror.
A psychologist can help you untangle the internal knots and problems that poison your life.
My whole adult life I’ve tried to surround myself with professionals and to ask them all the embarrassing questions about the areas where I’m not competent.
When I brought in Paula, a social media specialist, my blog started growing much faster. We now get 10 million views on our videos every month, and across my social accounts about 1,000 people subscribe every day. That’s 90% down to Paula and her team.
Once a week I go to my osteopath (manual therapist) Zakhar. While he works on my back, he explains how my body actually lives and functions. I’ve learned a huge number of useful things and seriously adjusted many of my habits thanks to those conversations. Zakhar has a medical degree, and talking with him is enormously useful.
I have a computer guy, Sasha, who helps me with all the equipment and software both at home and in my office. He’s the one who told me about a UPS for 7,000 hryvnia and a battery to go with it, thanks to which my flat now always has power and internet — a serious matter in Ukraine, where blackouts are routine.
I could keep adding to this list of people, but the conclusion is very simple: the more professionals there are in your life, the easier it is to build a better quality of life and to stop dancing on the rake of your own incompetence.
In the photo is my dentist Ruslan. A high-level professional. On every visit he tells me important things about my teeth and shares the principles of proper care. If I’d found him seven or eight years ago, I probably wouldn’t have a single filling today.
When you surround yourself with professionals across different areas of life, reaching your goals becomes much simpler and much faster.
From my point of view, it’s better to pay people for their experience and knowledge and, thanks to that, avoid collecting every bruise yourself.
As modern sages put it: better to ride the waves than to smash against the rocks.
Do you try to surround yourself with professionals?