If you want to succeed at what you’re doing, this is a question you need to ask yourself: “Do I really care enough about my job?”
Do you care about being the best in the world? Or putting in the hours to improve your craft? Are the rewards of your work worth all the sacrifices you made?
Because if the answer is not a resounding “YES!” then it’s time to reconsider what you’re doing. “But winners never quit, right?” Not exactly. Successful people do quit. The difference between a successful and a not-successful person is this: The former knows how to quit the wrong things. And they quit it at just the right time.
“Wrong things” means jobs and careers you don’t truly care about. If you’re only working a job to pay the bills, that’s understandable as long as it’s temporary. (If your finances are so bad right now, you can check this guide to have a better overview of the steps you can take).
Eventually, you’ll need to put some serious thought into your career. You don’t want to spend all your life chasing after bills, do you?
Back when I worked in sales, I saw how other people could succeed even in high-pressure, high-competition industries. I saw folks who were considered great. And they often had some things in common:
- They showed up early and stayed late
- They paid a lot of attention to the details
- They set very high standards for their results and stuck to it
- and so forth.
But here’s the thing: People who imitated those habits didn’t become the best. That’s an assumption many people make. Just copy the habits of successful people and you’ll succeed too, right? But that’s not the deciding factor of success.
Instead, I learned that people who became the best in their fields took their job 10 times more seriously than everybody else. And that’s exactly what made them succeed the way they did.
