Mundane, yet simple
Throughout my life, I have seen and heard many people (myself included) who wanted to do this, or wish they were doing that but just had never taken that first step, or never had the "willpower" or follow through to make it happen. It could be something related to their job, starting a blog, dieting, exercise, etc. Well, I'm here today to give you some encouragement. It's never too late to get started and you can do it!!
My daughter shared with me recently that "success is a series of mundane, simple, everyday steps". It doesn't matter what success is, you have to define that for yourself, but if you don't do the mundane, simple, everyday steps, you will not move forward. The great news...you can do these steps.
So, my challenge to you is to define what you want to do. Define what success looks like to you. Then, plan your work. If you know where you want to end up, and you know where you are starting, all that is left to do is to develop the roadmap to get you to your destination. Define that roadmap, break it into simple, everyday steps, then start taking those steps each and every day. Some of those steps will be exhilarating, some will be mundane, but you must take them, consistently, every day.
I remember years ago when I worked for a staffing company. It was my job as a recruiter to find candidates to fill open roles at our clients. Each day I would get to work, verify what my priority jobs were for the day, run searches for candidates to fill those jobs, email said candidates, then call and screen said candidates, and submit appropriately qualified candidates to my account representatives. Once that was done, I would start all over again. And again. And again. So on and so forth. I would do this in hopes that I would find the right candidates that would be acceptable to our clients, and then they would get hired and I would get a commission.
It was a numbers game. I knew I had to have X amount of activity to get X amount of commissions. It was like an assembly line and it was mundane. Yet, every day, sometimes several times a day, I would repeat the above process, tweaking my search strings each time, in hopes that I would find that needle in a haystack. Did I like it? No, not always. Did I make a living? Yes. And I got so good at the basics, the mundane, that I was able to get promoted over and over as well.
I will leave you with this; regardless of your goal, do the simple things well, over and over again. You can do it.
My daughter shared with me recently that "success is a series of mundane, simple, everyday steps". It doesn't matter what success is, you have to define that for yourself, but if you don't do the mundane, simple, everyday steps, you will not move forward. The great news...you can do these steps.
So, my challenge to you is to define what you want to do. Define what success looks like to you. Then, plan your work. If you know where you want to end up, and you know where you are starting, all that is left to do is to develop the roadmap to get you to your destination. Define that roadmap, break it into simple, everyday steps, then start taking those steps each and every day. Some of those steps will be exhilarating, some will be mundane, but you must take them, consistently, every day.
I remember years ago when I worked for a staffing company. It was my job as a recruiter to find candidates to fill open roles at our clients. Each day I would get to work, verify what my priority jobs were for the day, run searches for candidates to fill those jobs, email said candidates, then call and screen said candidates, and submit appropriately qualified candidates to my account representatives. Once that was done, I would start all over again. And again. And again. So on and so forth. I would do this in hopes that I would find the right candidates that would be acceptable to our clients, and then they would get hired and I would get a commission.
It was a numbers game. I knew I had to have X amount of activity to get X amount of commissions. It was like an assembly line and it was mundane. Yet, every day, sometimes several times a day, I would repeat the above process, tweaking my search strings each time, in hopes that I would find that needle in a haystack. Did I like it? No, not always. Did I make a living? Yes. And I got so good at the basics, the mundane, that I was able to get promoted over and over as well.
I will leave you with this; regardless of your goal, do the simple things well, over and over again. You can do it.
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