Stop Accepting Mediocrity

Do you spend your working life doing tasks you don't want to do, just to avoid your boss catching you out?

Most people do.

They do the bare minimum their boss will accept (or notice). All they do bares a watermark, the words "Will This Do?"

If it will, work is stopped, leaving mediocre results from the minimum amount of effort required.

Most people live their working lives to the 'what can I get away with' standard. It's pathetic, lazy and spectacularly self-defeating.

Be honest with me, and with yourself, for a moment. Wouldn't you love a big increase in salary? More control over what you do? A more responsible position where YOU call the shots? Of course you would! Hell, who wouldn't?!

So what's your game plan to get it?

If it's to do everything that's expected of you, I'm afraid you're in for disappointment.

If people got promoted for doing what was expected of them, MOST people would get promoted most of the
time. But they don't, because life doesn't work like that. Your employer takes it as read that you'll do what is expected of you. There are no brownie points in it for you.

If you want to life your dream life, you will need to do MORE than is expected of you. You must be in the business of positively surprising people.

If you work to rule, you are limiting yourself to roles similar to your current one. If you want something better, you must give more of yourself, and in the short-term not give a damn about whether your job description, salary, hours of work or job title reflect the work that you do.

Either your employer will recognize your work and reward you soon after you request it OR you will have the anecdotes, experience and bullet-points for
your Resume that you need to jump ship to an employer that will reward you.

Either way you win.

You deserve your dream life. Stop accepting mediocrity and work hard damn hard, and you will succeed at grasping the life you desire.