How to know when you’ve mastered a skill

If something is truly easy, everyone would be doing it.

But they’re not.

So if something feels easy to you, that’s not a sign to stop. That’s a sign that you’ve mastered it.

Mastery is the ability to execute a skill effortlessly without the use of conscious resources.

A.k.a when a skill becomes muscle memory, you’ve mastered it.

And mastery makes things more valuable, not less.

Here’s why:

The more you’ve mastered a skill, the less time it takes you to do it.

The less time it takes, the more valuable it becomes for others.

Because people don’t pay for work.

They pay for speed.

If I offered you a million dollars right now, you’d take it.

But if I offered you a million dollars and you couldn’t wake up tomorrow, you wouldn’t.

Why? Because time is more valuable than money.

And when you’ve mastered something, you’re not just selling a skill—you’re selling time.

So the goal isn’t to stop doing what’s easy.

The goal is to innovate your process and make it better.

• Refine the system.

• Document the process.

• Improve the experience.

The product you sell isn’t just the product.

The real product is how you build and sell it.

It’s your unique mechanism.

So instead of chasing new things and overcomplicating what works, do two things:

1. Follow the path of least resistance—double down on what you’ve already mastered.

2. Follow the path of most resistance—push yourself to innovate and improve that process.

The skill that feels effortless to you is a goldmine.

Your job isn’t to abandon it.

Your job is to make it undeniably better and charge accordingly.

If you want to save 10h/week by removing yourself from your business operations, automating key processes and building systems that works harder than you do, without doing any of the work yourself, reply “Systemize” and I’ll send you some more details.

No fluff. Just systems.
Chris “The Systemizer” Punt