Is It Time to Rethink Your Career?

by Early To Rise (07/31/2008)

Issue #2422

  • WEALTHY: How to ensure that you WILL move forward in life (Brian Tracy)
  • HEALTHY: Two ways to drop fat fast (Yarixa Ferrao)
  • WISE: Denis Waitley on achievement

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

  • The power of a single word (Michael Masterson)
  • Why you shouldn’t try to be a copywriter (Howie Jacobson)
  • It’s Fun to Know… about cloning your dog
  • Add "assiduous" to your vocabulary

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 "The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."

Denis Waitley

Is It Time to Rethink Your Career?

By Brian Tracy

The very worst use of time is to stay at a job for months and years for which you are completely unsuited.

There are a great number of people who spend their whole lives doing something they don’t enjoy during the week, always looking forward to the weekends. They refer to Monday as "Blue Monday" and to Wednesday as "Hump Day." At the end of the week, they say "Thank God It’s Friday!"

These are men and women with very little in the way of a future. They look upon their jobs as a form of drudgery, a penance they have to pay in order to enjoy their free time. And because of this attitude, they will seldom advance or be promoted.

They will stay pretty much where they are, moving from job to job, and always wondering why other people seem to be living the good life while they feel like they are living a life of quiet desperation.

At my seminars, I am frequently asked by people what they can do to be more successful. In almost every case, they are working in jobs they don’t like, for bosses they don’t particularly respect, producing or selling products or services for customers they don’t care about. And many of them think that if they just hang in there long enough, the clouds will part and everything will get better for them.

But the fact is that you are where you are and what you are because that’s what you have chosen. You can do amazing things with your life, but nobody else can change your situation for you. It’s entirely up to you.

The economic function of your company is to hire people at the very lowest cost so that they can serve customers at the very lowest cost in a competitive market. For this reason, no one has any obligation to pay you any more than you are getting. If possible, they would like to pay you less.

One thing I tell people over and over again is that they must become very good at doing what they are doing if they want to move up in their company. And if they don’t have the inner desire to be very good at their job, it means they are probably in the wrong one.

Excellence is like a ladder, and excellent performance at your current job is like the rungs on the ladder. In order for you to progress, you must become extremely good at what you are doing right now. Once you have mastered your current job, you will automatically move up to more difficult, more interesting, and higher-paid jobs.

Too many people do their jobs in an average or mediocre fashion, with the idea that, when the right job comes along, then they will really do a good job. But for some reason, the right job never comes along. They are always passed over for promotions and advancement. They are always the last ones hired and the first ones laid off.

So be perfectly honest with yourself. Look deep inside and decide what it is you would like to do if you only had six months left to live. What would you choose to do if you won a million dollars in the lottery tomorrow? What sort of work would you do if you were absolutely guaranteed of success in any one field? If you had no limits on your abilities and opportunities - no debts, no problems, no commitments - what would be your ideal job or career?

Research shows that the things people liked to do best between the ages of 7 and 14 were a very good indicator of what they would be most successful at as adults.

A man at one of my seminars told me that when he was between the ages of 7 and 14 he loved to build model airplanes. He built more and more complicated planes, and then built them with engines and flew them in contests.

Today, he is 35 years old. He has a degree in aeronautical engineering. He designs small aircraft. In addition, he owns an aircraft maintenance company and an air charter firm. He is a multi-millionaire, and he feels like he has never worked a day in his life. He has always done what he loved to do and most enjoyed from the time he was a little boy.

If you’re not sure about your true calling, ask the people closest to you. Ask them, "What do you think I would be the very best at doing with my life?" It is amazing how people around you - including your spouse, your best friends, and your parents - can see clearly what you should be doing when often you cannot see it yourself.

Project yourself forward five years, and imagine that your entire life is perfect in every respect. Imagine that you are doing exactly the right job for you, in exactly the right place, with exactly the right people, and earning exactly the amount you want to earn.

What would that look like? Where would you be, and what would you be doing? Who would you be with, and how would you have changed?

When you have that picture in your head, think about the steps you would have to take to get from where you are today to where you want to be in five years. What skills would you have to develop? What information would you have to acquire? What obstacles would you have to overcome?

Success comes from being excellent at what you do. The market pays excellent rewards only for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and below-average rewards for below-average performance.

But excellence is a journey, not a destination. You never quite get there. You can never relax. The market is always changing, so what constitutes excellence today will be different tomorrow and very different next year and every year thereafter.

All really successful and happy people know in their hearts that they are very good at what they do. And if you are doing what you really love and enjoy, if you are following your true calling, you will know it too.

[Ed. Note: Finding your true calling can help you find happiness, success, and even wealth. Put Brian Tracy's strategies to work, and you could have it all. And if you want to find your focal point and learn to maximize your income and minimize your effort, check out Brian's 6-CD Power of Clarity program.]

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Something Useful Suzanne Taught Me

By Michael Masterson

When Suzanne Richardson took over as Managing Editor of ETR, I was pleased. I had recommended her - so her promotion was a feather in my cap as well as hers.

I expected to teach her a lot about writing and editing. But on that first day of her new job, it was she who was doing the teaching.

I e-mailed her my ETR essay for the week, and she e-mailed back a quick reply with a single word on it: "Thanks!"

"Thanks!" That was it. But, boy - it made me feel good.

She hadn’t even read the essay yet. But she thanked me for sending it. And her thank you ended with an exclamation point. With that exclamation point, she seemed to be saying: "I’m feeling good today, and getting your essay on time made me feel even better."

Now maybe I was reading too much into that - but the next time I sent her an essay, I wondered if she would send me the same reply. Sure enough, she did. And guess what? It made me feel good all over again.

If you knew Suzanne personally, you would know that she is a cheerful person. Highly intelligent, highly articulate - she had found a very concise way to convey that cheerfulness to me in a single word.

It doesn’t matter to me that she surely sends the same message to every other ETR contributor. I believe she means it. And it warms my heart.

I used to bartend with a guy named Geno Rice. Geno was the best bartender I ever worked with. Not only was he amazing at making drinks, he was always the best-liked bartender in any place he worked.

Geno had a secret. He greeted everyone who walked in his bar with a hearty, "Hey, [NAME], how’s it going?" He greeted not only customers that way. He did the same with his fellow workers. And when Geno said, "Hey, Michael! How’s it going?" I felt good.

Dale Carnegie correctly pointed out that a person’s name is always his favorite word. And when Geno said anyone’s name, he said it with the same tone of voice that Suzanne conveys to me with her exclamation point.

Since that first "Thanks!" from Suzanne, I’ve made an effort to thank people whenever they send me something via e-mail - almost anything. And I use her technique: one word with an exclamation point.

It’s a small lesson, but a valuable one.

When you are communicating by e-mail, it’s easy to give the wrong impression. Just yesterday, for example, I received an urgent e-mail from an accountant I work with, asking if she had said anything to offend me. I couldn’t imagine what she was talking about. It must have been something in an e-mail that she misinterpreted.

So I e-mailed back that she was aces with me and could do no wrong. And I ended by thanking her for alerting me to the misunderstanding. And, yes, I ended that e-mail with an exclamation point!

[Ed. Note: A single word - like "Thanks!" - can have enormous power. But it's not the only word that can alter people's perception of you. When you have a wide-ranging vocabulary, you'll find that people treat you with respect and even admiration. A broad vocabulary can even help you earn more money! Learn how you can add 120 new words to your personal lexicon from the comfort of your couch or your car.]

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Worth Quoting: Howie Jacobson on Getting Out of the Way

"[Pioneer Internet marketer] Ken [McCarthy] knows that by stepping out of the way of the product, and letting it sell itself, without hype or fancy marketing footwork, he’s allowing his prospects to gather information in their own way, to make an informed decision about whether [the product] is appropriate for them.

"If you’ve read AdWords For Dummies, you know that I credit Ken with being my Internet marketing mentor, as well as my first copywriting teacher. The most important thing he taught me is this:

"Don’t try to be a copywriter. Just explain what you’ve got and why anyone should care - and then just get out of the way.

"In other words, don’t mess around with mystical, manipulative tactics that are supposed to magically vacuum money out of your prospects’ wallets while they grin stupidly in a hypnotic trance.

"Just talk to people. Be interesting. Be respectful of their time. Share value. Make your pitch. And shut up."

(Source: AskHowie.com/blog)

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The Exercise Tricks That Whipped Michael Into Shape

By Yarixa Ferrao

Listen, we all fall off the wagon sometimes. Especially when it comes to our fitness goals. Even Michael Masterson slips up. As I explained yesterday, ] he was 19 pounds over his ideal weight in February.

If you want to lose weight… or just increase your level of fitness… I’ve got a high-intensity workout regimen that can slim you down. In fact, it helped Michael lose over 13 pounds of pure body fat in just six weeks.

Michael had already been training pretty intensely with me. (He’s been known to call me the "Pain Mistress.") A normal 45-minute exercise regimen for Michael included a proper 10-minute warm-up, three to four sets of full-body training circuits (six to seven minutes each), and a 10-minute cool-down.

But because Michael wanted to get back his ideal weight quickly, we needed to "kick it up a notch." So, in addition to his normal routine, we added two simple exercise tricks that worked like a charm.

Trick # 1: A 10-minute Dr. Sears PACE program before the cool-down. Michael did 100-yard sprints four or five times in a row. In between each sprint, he would rest for 30 seconds to three minutes. This allowed his heart rate to come down close to his resting heart rate. Then he’d raise it again with the next sprint.

Trick # 2: More compound and callisthenic movements. These exercises take less time than isolation movements (exercises that focus on one muscle at a time). You get a bigger bang for your buck, while, at the same time, burning more calories, developing more muscle, and burning more fat. And these "side effects" can last for up to 48 hours after the workout!

Here is one compound exercise to try: The Squat to Shoulder Press…

Start by grabbing either soup cans or dumbbells. Stand with your feet a little wider than hip-width apart. Hold the weights at shoulder level, bending your arms. Squat down. Press up from the squat, simultaneously straightening your arms above your head.

The above exercise regimen is only part of what helped Michael get down to his ideal weight. Check back next week to discover the changes he made to his diet to lose fat.

[Ed. Note: If you're looking to see results like Michael's, Coach Yari can help. She's offering a special online training program for people who can't make it to her gym. Learn how to burn up to 37 pounds of fat in 6 weeks right here.

Of course, working out isn't the only key to getting fit. Get healthy recipe ideas, the latest news on natural supplements, and plenty of motivation right here.]

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It’s Fun to Know: Cloning Spot

If you can’t bear to live without your pet dog, two competing South Korean labs might be able to help you out when he passes away. For a fee ranging from $50,000 to $100,000, either one will clone the little fella.

So far, the labs’ best customer has been the South Korean government, which has commissioned several dogs cloned from a renowned drug-sniffing dog in hopes that the clones will be easier to train. The labs hope to expand into the international pet-cloning market within the next several months.

(Source: Reuters)

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Word to the Wise: Assiduous

"Assiduous" (uh-SIJ-oo-us) - from the Latin for "to attend to" - means tireless and unremitting.

Example (as used by Jacob Heilbrunn in a New York Times review of One Man’s America by George F. Will): "When William F. Buckley Jr. died, George F. Will… became, perhaps, the right’s most enduring elder statesman. It’s a distinction he’s worked assiduously to earn."

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  1. Lisa
    July 31st, 2008| 12:25 pm

    I’m sorry to hear about the pet cloning business. Don’t believe that a clone of your favorite pet will be exactly the same. ‘This American Life’ did an excellent piece on a man who cloned his prize bull and the clone tried to kill him twice before he got the message that the clone was NOT a copy of his first bull. It looked the same but had its own (mean) personality.

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