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Getting That Promotion And Recognition

Garth Beyer

Getting Ahead

You can’t get ahead or become remarkable by asking your boss how. By asking what you can do to get the promotion, to get the recognition, to get the page views, you’re setting their expectations and spoiling the surprise.

I was fortunate the other day when I heard a PR director say they hired someone who wrote weekly posts for the agencies internal blog. That director isn’t going to tell every intern to write those posts. If she did, it wouldn’t be special, wouldn’t be remarkable, wouldn’t be exceeding expectations; it would merely be doing what she suggested.

To get that promotion and recognition you’re striving for, you’ve got to get uncomfortable, you’ve got find ways to do things differently, you’ve got to do the unexpected.

Often times, it doesn’t matter how great what you do is, it’s really just a matter of you doing it. That director never said the blog posts were great. Hell, she might not have even read them. It was the fact the intern did something unexpected (and consistently!) that made her stand out.

 

Stay Positive & What Are You Doing With Your Downtime?

Leap And Recognition

Leap And Recognition

Garth Beyer

Leap

It’s not what you create that people are encapsulated by. It is the leap you’ve taken to put a piece of work, a piece of you out there that they can’t help but appreciate, respect and awe over.

If you’re not getting enough recognition, you’re not taking a large enough leap.

 

Stay Positive & Maybe Get A Running Start

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Building Intuition

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Sure, I won’t argue that intuition in some cases comes naturally. You can follow your intuition when lost in the woods or playing a game of chess. However, you can also build your intuition.

Go hiking enough, your intuition becomes a combination of gut feeling and a recognition of signs. A chess player stated, “If I notice a piece is out-of-place (recalling a similar position from my subconscious memory), I’ll adjust my thought process appropriately and evaluate my options. All of this behavior related to pattern recognition is collectively known as a chess player’s intuition.”

I don’t rely on intuition. I rely on building it. And when it fails me, that only means I haven’t experienced enough. Cool thing is, failure is experience.

 

Stay Positive & Check Mate, Intuition

Garth E. Beyer

Self Delivered Progress

Garth Beyer

My co-worker dropped a great one liner the other week. She mentioned that you need to, “under promise and over deliver.”

I couldn’t have agreed more at the time. It encompasses a positive view of expectations. If you get someone to set low expectations and you proceed to blow them away, the person will be shocked, amazed, and grateful. In addition, by under promising, you are casting the safety net. If you can’t seem to deliver, it’s okay because you never promised that much to begin with.

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Part of the statement here needs to be revoked. While I still hold to the attributes I’ve stated, I completely disagree with one part of the statement to under promise and over deliver.

Eliminate under to create the saying “promise and over deliver.”

If you need to under promise something, then it’s likely that it’s best you don’t promise anything to begin with. Promising something that you’re worried you can’t deliver, or fully deliver, is not a smart promise. Smart promises is what gets us places. Smart promises say exactly what you will do with the guarantee of it being completely done.

If you’re interested in progress though, if you want to move up the ladder, if you want the recognition and admiration from the people who you fulfill promises for, then you need to promise and over deliver.

Before any skepticism is launched, let me say without any wiggle room, that there is always a way to over deliver. It’s this performance of searching for a way to over deliver, and then following through with it that creates progress. Self delivered progress for you through over delivering on promises for them.

 

Stay Positive & Who Knew Progress Was So Easy

Garth E. Beyer

I Don’t Believe In Luck

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I don’t believe in being lucky. You attract everything positive into your life. “Luck” follows those who work for it. When you get it, it feels like you’re lucky, but you’re actually not.

Most people  just don’t know how to pat themselves on their back for the effort they put in, so they call it luck.

If you want other people to think your amazing, you first have to think your amazing.

 

Stay Positive & Pat Yourself On The Back (I hear doing that brings good luck … )

Garth E. Beyer

Why Reading Garth’s Blog Benefits You

Garth Beyer

Aside from the spectacular content. I am always switching things up, I am always offering different and new information; all, of course, to help you in life in a variety of ways.

I mentioned on the side by my gravatar about how adversity is rarely spoken about and that is where you can truly benefit from reading this blog. I keep you continuously surprised at what type of content you will be in-taking each day. Sure, I could get a lot more followers by having a common trend, a single niche of content every day. Fortunately, I know that I am impacting you much more than those who provide habitual content. To produce content that correlates with your routine is the last goal any blogger should have.

I want to break the routine, break the status quo, break your traditional thought processes throughout the day. See it as this: at work you have a task that you have to do every day, and you generally handle it the same way. But from time to time, you run into a speed bump and at first you are hesitant, but after you think it through and overcome the setback, how do you feel? Accomplished, powerful, recognized, achieved, you did something , accomplished something, subconsciously it makes you feel like you deserve that raise you have been wanting a little bit more. That feeling you get after you overcome adversity and accomplish something, that is the feeling I am after and that is why my blog benefits you.

Stay Positive and You Deserve A Raise In Life

Garth E. Beyer

It PAYS To Be Early

It PAYS To Be Early

Garth Beyer

Do you know that feeling of seeing the sun rise? How aesthetic and life-energizing it is? The sight of it transports you to a realm of endless peacefulness. It nearly makes you feel as warm as the sun itself. It reminds you the world is a beautiful place.  What if I told you that you could have a similar reaction by getting to work earlier than usual? What if I shared with you an idea that you would consider skipping watching the sunrise to partake in? Read On.

We generally don’t get paid for arriving at our jobs early. Or do we?

We never realize the perks and rewards for arriving to meetings, our jobs, or even friendly get-together’s early. We just think “I’m lucky I got a seat” or something of the sort.

Something so simple gives such greater rewards than a good seat. Do you notice them? Do you realize the difference between arriving early and arriving just on time?

Say… you have a meeting to attend this Friday and you already know your boss is going to be there early to set up the presentation. Are you one of the few that sees this as an opportunity? Or are you thinking “I have to make sure I am on time, I can’t let my boss catch me being late again”?

What you should be thinking is the next step to work, relationship, and financial progress. You may consider asking your boss if he or she needs help setting up. Don’t be a suck up.  Despite what movies suggest, successful CEO’s are not surrounded by suck-ups. They are connected with activators and those who take matters into their own hands and form them into successful creations. Don’t ask if your boss could use some extra help getting things ready, put yourself in the position. YOU can be the reason that the meeting went effortlessly and efficiently. A good deed never goes unnoticed. Whether you can see that your actions had a positive impact or not, your boss will be mentioning your name when talking to other CEO’s because of your simple contribution of time and energy. — And to think, all it took was getting to work 20 minutes earlier.

Just a thought,
In order to be first, you need to be first!

Stay Positive and remember the alarm does not go off to punish you. It goes off to let you know that an opportunity to succeed -further than you have already- is awaiting for you to grab hold of it.

Garth E. Beyer