Nobel Prize-winning Herbert Simon’s wisdom that says that, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” It’s easy to read that and say, “Yah! So true…” and then do nothing about it — continuing to destroy our attention with an onslaught of meaningless incoming information. And, continuing to err.

Writers, Samuel Gorovitz and Alasdair MacIntyre who tell us that there are three primary reasons why we err.

The first is “necessary fallibility.” Some things are just outside the realm of human capacity. Alas, we’re not all powerful and omniscient.

But, some things ARE within our capacity and yet we still fall short of our potential. There are two reasons for these types of failures: ignorance and ineptitude.

Ignorance means we don’t know what we need to know to perform at our best. Ineptitude means we KNOW but we don’t actually DO what we know.

Here’s the good news: If we simply applied more of what we ALREADY know, we’d be doing really, really, really well. (Right?)

What is ONE THING that you can do this very minute that you can maximize your abilities? Optimization is about moving from theory to practice! In other words we make small advancements daily to improve our lives regarding the things that we know is healthy for us mind, body, and spirit!

TODAY, it is time to say good-bye to ineptitude and hello to MASTERY!