‘Nothing in your life gets better until your daily patterns do.’– Andy Core
Hi, my name is Bright. I am the founder of RecruitTheBest Institute, a personal and professional development platform.
RecruitTheBest Institute is about three things: Learning more, growing more, and improving more. We are not perfect. And we never stop learning more, growing more, and improving more. You can do the same. If you like what we are doing here, share with your friends.
Remember, no one succeeds alone. No one can do it all. We learn more when we learn with other people. We grow more when we grow with other people. And we improve more when we work with other people.
If you want to change your life, if you want to change your organization (THE PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE), if you want to build a powerful culture, if you want to turn your organization around, let’s do it together. Let’s learn together. Let’s grow together. Let’s improve together. We can achieve greatness when we do it together.
Take your time to get good at what you are doing. Do not rush the process. Take your time to master the basics.
If you can master yourself, you can master your work. Because everything starts with you.
To be great at work is not about being the smartest in the room. It is about knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and when to move on.
According to Erika, ‘The dumbest person at your company is the one who doesn’t know what the company is paying them to do. Don’t be that person.’
To be great at work, ask, ‘What can my job do to help solve for that?’
‘Sometimes, if you feel the urge to quiet quit or if you aren’t the quitter type but you are quitting- you may just be in the wrong job.’
‘Instead of worrying about what you’re worrying about, ask what the company is worried about.’
‘Get out of yourself, and take on the perspective of the company or the CFO or whomever you are meeting with.’
‘Don’t forget, there’s always someone younger, cheaper, and hungrier than you are who is just as good as you are, and maybe even better, waiting for your job.’
‘Great bosses still make bad decisions and mistakes. And so will you. A great boss makes that okay to experience together.’
‘Expectations need to be communicated consistently and honestly on an going basis.’
‘To best set yourself up for success, don’t shy away from talking about expectations and outlining them in a way that they can be front of mind.’
‘Your own priorities and expectations should always map back to your vision– what you want to achieve, the value proposition that led you to having your job in the first place, and what you are hoping to create or deliver.’
‘To navigate through conflict, try to figure out where your boss is coming from. Put yourself in their shoes. What is your boss saying, and what is your boss not saying?’
‘It’s better to know something isn’t right for you (the right thing will come along) than to end up in the same place twice.’
‘Don’t worry about everyone else’s ego. Worry about yours.’
‘Confront yourself about what you want, why you want it, where you are, and how you got there.’
Source
Erika Ayers Badan (2024). Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure Is Good, The Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths
Your career is your responsibility. Waiting for your boss to grow your career for you is a waste of time.
If you want to change your career, you must first change yourself.
According to Erika Ayers Badan, ‘Nobody cares about your career.’ That is why you should take care of your career. Waiting for other people to make your own career decision for you is a waste of time. Do not do it.
When you are ready and willing to bet on yourself, according to Erika, ‘You can do anything if you’re willing to give yourself to it, fuck up a bunch while at it, be uncomfortable during it, and be reflective after it.’
‘If you are sincere about who you are, nothing can take you down because how you feel on the inside matches what you show and give off on the outside.’
‘Changing up your attitude and headspace to allow for more learning, innovation, and risk is the first step on a journey to something bigger for yourself.’
‘You are the only person who can truly defeat you, silence you, keep you still. You are also the best person to figure out the way forward.’
‘Doing something that feels fulfilling to you, even if it’s not what the people around you think is right, can be hugely freeing.’
‘Accept that you can’t make things what they were, but believe that you can make things different- and better.’
‘Falling down is the best way to get good at getting up. Knowing how to trip is a good way to get good at running.’
‘Spending your time worrying doesn’t do anything but make you better at worrying. Spending your time doing makes you better at something, which gives you skill, builds your confidence, and makes you viable and valuable to someone else.’
‘The more you expose yourself to new people, experiences, and points of view, the more you will benefits.’
‘The weird thing about eating shit is that it makes the drama go away faster.’
‘You don’t need to be perfect. Just own your mess, deal with it, and know you are capable of doing that and much more.’
‘If you don’t want people to think you’re a fraud, try not to be one.’
Source
Erika Ayers Badan (2024). Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure is Good, The Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths
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