Your skills are USELESS.
Yes, this is NOT a typo.
There’s something I’ve read on Twitter lately…
And it goes:
“Success in life and business follows this hierarchy:
1. Self Awareness & Mastery
2. Mental Model & Mindset
3. Principles
4. Habits
5. Skills
“Most people start with skills first and that’s why they fail”
And a lot of people were shocked that skills came last.
“Why Sirajo? But we were taught that skills would make us rich”
Well, they were wrong.
Skills are the last thing you need (this is NOT a typo)
Because when you have great skills…
But (and here’s the BIGGER but)…
Lack good habits…
Have little to no understanding of principles…
A poor mindset…
And lack of self-awareness.
YOU WILL FAIL (read that again)
Yeah, you would.
Because everyone can acquire any skill they want, but why is everyone not successful?
Why is it that there’s always a 1% that just seems to have a secret that no one else in their field has?
Now you know.
These 1% have taken care of the other 4.
I’ll list them again:
Self Awareness & Mastery
Mental Model & Mindset
Principles
Habits
And most of them dialed this in even when they hadn’t chosen a skill yet.
So if you have skills…
And don’t have those 4,
Your skills are as good as useless!
Now I’m sure you’re wondering where systems come in…
I’ll tell ya.
For you to dial in each one of these FOUR…
You need to build systems around them.
Systems around building your self-awareness…
Systems around your mental model & Mindset…
Systems around your principles…
And systems around your habits…
That’s why, before you embark on any journey in your business or personal life…
It would make more sense to build systems around every bit of what you’ll be doing.
I love to build systems around every bit of what I’d be doing.
For example…
When I wanted to get good at writing emails…
I knew I had to focus on:
Consistent reading (of emails)
Consistent email dissections
Consistent writing
Consistent feedback from my coaches
And every week, I made sure I became 1% better at each of these.
Before I knew it,
I was getting good at a rate that shocked my coaches and those around me.
That’s what systems do.
They give you tunnel-vision on what you should focus on…
And then you have the luxury to ignore the rest that you don’t need.
And that’s why I wrote this email to you…
So you should start building systems behind everything you do…
And since 2026 is just 21 days away…
You should use this as a medium to set smarter goals for your life
That way, you’ll be able to track your goals and achieve them faster than those who “claim“ to have skills.
I’m rooting for you.
Sirajo from YBIMultimedia.