You current job as a “practice hall” # 39
When you see your job as a means to an end, you will be far more productive, enjoy your work and move forward in any area you select.
Think of great artists. They practice. Over and over, they do what has to be done to get better. They practice, practice and practice some more. Why? They practice to improve, to get better and to achieve a vision of what is possible. The same is true of every great manager, leader and professional. They use their roles as if they were their own private practice hall.
Develop the drive to improve
The drive to improve needs to be nurtured. It does not force you. Instead, you use it to help:
- See an ideal you want to achieve
- Have good reason to practice, even if the job can be boring at times
- Maximize the law of growth for your own advantage
- Develop your internal commitment to produce results
- Increase your personal achievement
A path to the future
The last point on personal achievement is to me the most significant. Today’s achievement paves the road to new possibilities. If you continue to add value to your work, you will grow.
Many people tell me that they cannot get excited about “improving” at their current position because of poor conditions. They miss the point. Where you are today is the perfect condition for your personal growth. You grow from where you are, not from where you wish you were.
Don’t be average
Don’t get seduced into being average. Once you stop performing at high levels, you will drift downward. Better to set your own higher standards and commit to performing up to those standards. Take the lead on this and see how conditions will now pull you forward. You also benefit because you always have control over what you will do in terms of the job at hand.
Seven ideas on why your own growth is realistic to plan, manage and count on:
- You will improve if today’s actions are high enough to match your view of possibility.
- All actions must be aligned with where you are heading, not where you are today.
- The future you seek (vision of tomorrow) is already in process and will be average or excellent, according to today’s actions.
- Your desire to have more (improve) gives you the power and skill to meet any challenge.
- You already have the talent needed to accomplish what you want to accomplish.
- Desire is natural in that it is part of your own law of growth.
- No desire, no growth
I hope that you can use some of these ideas.
Richard L Reardon
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