Before I share with you what this is all about, I shall introduce myself and what I aim to achieve with Enlightr.com, and how it can benefit the self-improvement community as a whole.

 

And you are?

My name is Craig Thomas, I'm 21 years old and I'm currently a psychology student at Bournemouth University. I've read countless books and articles in many different fields for one reason. I really desired change in my life.

The change I desired was to lift myself from average to great (okay, I was a bit narcissistic!). I'm glad I choose this path of improvement due to what I gained, not in the form of knowledge or greatness but, a simple lesson.

 

The Lesson

Everyone, everywhere will eventuallyget to a point of effort where everything seems to be going wrong and the effort was in vain. That is one the most important times of anyone's life. That is when you learn the lesson.

The lesson as I call it, is simply the overall message of whatever you've spent a great deal of time and energy on recently.

When you learn to drive you almost always mess up once at least, that once may be all you need to 'realise' the lesson. Some people need a few mess ups to achieve the same 'lesson'. How ever many errors, failures, mess ups or complete cock ups it takes to see the lesson. It is completely worth it. Since you are dawning on the steps of mastery.

 

Cycle of Mastery

Mastery works just how you expect it not too. When you start to undertake learning in anything it all takes a very identifiable cycle. This is called the mastery cycle. It goes generally like this -

Start = Success = Success = Good Success = Great Success = Massive Failure = Learn (repeat)

The arrows are time, between each step of the cycle is an amount of time, could be 5 minutes, could be 5 years. The next step always happens eventually.

Do you know people who have just failed? And not learned? Those are the people who gave up. At any stage of the cycle you can give up. But, if you do, you don't see the next step. A lot of people give up at the 'massive failure' because they just assume it's all over, they've lost and they don't even know why.

If you keep on the same path, after the massive failure, the lesson will appear in magnificent glowing light before your very eyes! (okay, not really, but you will realise and obtain the lesson - something which you can never lose!)

When you obtain the lesson, you are one cycle closer to mastery. After you learn the cycle starts again at the start. At the end of each cycle, you will learn another invaluable lesson.

Main thing to remember is that it is a cycle. Each time you fail, learn and start succeeding again, it's very easy to think you've mastered whatever you were undertaking, until of course, you massively fail and learn again. Keep your eyes open.

 

Why are you telling us this?

I'm telling you this so we can achieve the same understanding with what is being created here.

Enlightr.com is a re-branding of Mostuseful.co.uk, which I greatly learned from. Enlightr.com is its successor, in the next cycle of mastery.

Enlightr will grow and grow, through success and success until that massive failure comes around again. What I want is for the next learning step to be achieved by everyone who values self-improvement. Then we all get the shiny glowing lesson that'll take us to the next level of understanding, together.

 

Conclusion

Think of Enlightr as your self-improvement friend. It'll help you through lessons in many areas. In each lesson you gain I'd like for you to share with the community.

Self-improvers are a small percentage of the general population here in the Westernised world. This gives us a massive advantage, a much bigger cup to drink from the lesson pool. So when you learn that important lesson in your field, don't hide it from your friends and colleagues, share it. Often you'll find that by sharing your lesson, you'll learn another.

Craig is a 22-year-old student currently studying psychology at Bournemouth University. He runs a self improvement blog and community filled with useful advice. His main aim is to help people exceed their expectations and reach their true potential. If you enjoyed this post, get free updates via RSS or E-mail.