67 Developing Skills Outside Of Work by Jumpstart by Jeffalytics published on 2017-09-27T15:34:44Z Having hobbies and developing skills outside of work. This is something that has been important to me for as long as I can remember, but I have fallen away from these hobbies in recent years. It's a shame, but I'm hoping that this episode will help me break out of that funk. If you listened to episode 65, you heard me talking about spending a weekend with other entrepreneurs. At first, I assumed that weekend would be all about work. Working hard in business, sharing war stories, etc. Turns out it was the opposite. I felt like the only workaholic in the bunch. Most of these successful people were not as work-obsessed as I have been lately, and yet they have accomplished so much. It was an inspiring shift in mindset and made me think about some difficult choices I will need to make in the future. Tal Gur gave a talk about how he has spent the past 10 years chasing 100 goals. For example, one year he decided to run an ironman triathlon. Another, he decided to improve his social skills. It was fascinating, and it’s going to be the subject of a book he published in the future. It got me thinking about how I started a similar approach in life a few years ago to master new skills. My thought was that you can develop a new skill at an expert level if you spend 1 year studying it inside-out. And that is how I have developed many of my personal skills over the years. The best part is that these don't even need to be work related. Many are just skills that help me become a more well rounded person. That has always been important to me, to be a renaissance man of sorts. But lately, I have been working so hard, that skill development has sort of taken a back seat to growing the business. A lot has been sacrificed in the name of growth, and I’m hoping to shift the balance back to finish 2017 and into 2018. Of course, as I say this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Casablanca, Morocco, and have a whirlwind travel schedule to end the month of September. Hard to focus on hobbies and skill development when you’re always waiting in a queue for an airplane. In today's episode, I will share 10 hobbies or skills that I have worked hard to develop over the years, the utility of growing these skills, and how I feel about them now.