If you choose the mastery route, you must practice
diligently and be willing to remain at a certain plain for a while. Sometimes,
you may remain on that plain for so long and you may think you are not making
any progress, but you actually are making progress.
While on your road to mastery, you want to spend a lot of
your time with other people who are doing what you are doing. It’s similar to
having a goal and hanging with a person you know has already met that goal, so
that some of her game and skills can rub off on you. In addition, if you are
truly on the journey to mastering something, you will find yourself hanging out
with people that are on that path as well.
When I took my new habit to school, I felt different from
everyone else; I felt I had matured a level above my peers. I was determined to
teach people part of my new acquired skill. So one day before school ended,
Ike, Bad Boy and I bailed from school to Bad Boys house. On our way to the
destination, I decided to purchase 4 sticks of B&H and 10 tom-toms from a
little kiosk on the side road. When we got to Bad Boy’s crib we went to his
balcony. I lit up the cigarette, inhaled and blew out the smoke slowly and
confidently. I repeated it a few times and gave Ike and Bad Boy their
cigarettes to light up. They were fast learners, they inhaled and blew out
slowly and confidently too. I was confused. After we finished smoking, we popped 2 tom-toms each in our mouth, washed our hands and sprayed cologne (we also had to master the art of eradicating the scent of cigarette smoke from our mouth, hands and body even if we had just smoked 2 minutes ago)
An unplanned, daily ritual started. Every day after school, we found
a way to practice our cigarette smoking skills, I’m talking
religiously. I and my boys were good friends with a girl that lived down the
road from school. Luckily, her parents were never home and she accepted us into
her house to smoke everyday. She too smoked;
I was weak when I found out. We would go there everyday to smoke and smoke. After
a month passed, we started dwindling and would not show up sometimes because it
became boring. However, one day we were all present at her house smoking and ol girl
offered us beer with our cigarettes; she swore that the combination was better than
smoking only cigarettes. I was afraid. But I drank the beer and she was right
(Good looking B). No day was missed again that term, at least two of us would be present
everyday…All of a sudden, everyone started smoking, and the habit became a trend. At least
everyone I knew was a smoker. Or better still, I surrounded my self with
smokers or wanna be smokers (the kind of people who puffed and never dragged
smoke into their lungs). Eventually, I would go to parties and make friends
with smokers… I remember one time, one of my boys made a statement that goes
like this, “Cigar is there for me when I need a friend” LOL….
After learning how to drag and blow, I learnt how to blow
out circles, I learnt how to take deep drags, and I learnt how to properly
dispose of the ashes when necessary. But one day I was chilling with a bunch of
my buddies, of course we were smoking, and I noticed this dude by the name of
Onos patting the ashes off his cigarette, he did it with mad skills and you
could tell that there was years of experience behind that cigarette PAT, I was
impressed inside. He did it several times again, I made sure I stored his method in my
brain; he must have been smoking since he was 5. Dude handled the cigarette
like it was second nature, that shit dazzled me. After much practice I mastered
that skill too and started smoking like a chimney. I would smoke for years
until last year.
I made a decision to stop, but before that final decision, I had made about 43 decisions only to smoke 5
minutes later…
A firm decision will help you start your path to Mastery. If you want to learn more on Mastery check this book out.
