If you had a superpower, what would it be?
Most people answer with the ability to fly, incredible strength, X-ray vision, or amazing intelligence. With those powers, we’d want to make the world a better place by stopping crime, interrupting wars, and disrupting criminal masterminds. To be honest, we’d also want our very own Batmobile.
When it comes to life and your career, you already have three superpowers at your fingertips. Implement these and you’ll find yourself secure and rising through the ranks of any organization.
These superpowers are simple—but they require faithfulness and consistency.
This doesn’t mean you have to be in sales, but it does mean you need to have a good relationship with the client.
Figure out how your role impacts the income of the company, and then excel at doing that. By being great at it, you increase the cash flow of the organization. That’s good for the company, the bank balance, and your reputation.
When you help bring in revenue, you’re viewed as an asset—not just a taskmaster.
Get in the cash-flow stream and turn it into a river of revenue.
This is such an untapped superpower.
People shouldn’t dread a meeting with you. No one enjoys interacting with negative, cranky individuals. When you’re kind and caring, others will flock to you.
No one wants to hear constant complaints about the company and how everything is horrible. Everyone already has enough stress in their personal lives—don’t be the person at work who adds to it with drama.
Be willing to take the call.
Accept the assignment.
Have the conversation.
When you interact with others, be kind, calm, and understanding. You’ll advance further and faster.
Seems simple, doesn’t it?
Yet every organization has internal roadblocks. There are desks in companies where things go to die. A project lands in someone’s inbox and sits there for six months until enough noise is made to move it forward.
Be the opposite.
Get things done.
Do them on time.
If you take ownership of a project, advance it across the finish line. Be a person of your word. Excuses don’t make you look good or put cash in the bank—they only make leaders question your ability to execute.
Avoid excuses and major on doing.
Reliable, dependable people are rewarded with income, advancement, and bigger responsibilities—because they’re seen as capable.
Success requires sacrifice.
If you want to be and do more, it will cost you something—time, comfort, or ease. No one advances and gets to do less. Success always involves a trade-off somewhere else.
Be willing to pay the price for success before you throw your hat in the ring. History is full of people who wanted to be great but didn’t have the courage to pay the price to become great.
As Thomas Edison said:
“Vision without execution is nothing more than hallucination.”
It’s time to start executing.
The time for doing is now.
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Intersecting life, luxury, and leadership,
Chris Adams
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