Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
You know the concept that the busier you are the more you seem to fit in? It’s as if, the more you do the more time you have. Now can you imagine how much more time you would have if you were busy doing things creatively, with more value and even more passion?
Kind of makes the vacation time you are getting at your job now seem a bit short doesn’t it?
Stay Positive & Work Less, Passion More
Garth E. Beyer
I didn’t know what was going on 10 years ago. I didn’t experience it. I only know what work, employment, the successful were all like because I’ve studied them. What I do know from experience is how difficult it is to grow up knowing that society is dysfunctional. That everything that my parents grew up with worked for them, but not for me. I felt pulled into an abyss because I knew that the world needed, not just someone, but some type of people. I grew up understanding factories and what it took to work there. Until I realized everything turned into a factory, that 2/3 of the jobs I ask friends what they want to do say “factory worker” without actually saying it. In the middle of everything that is no longer working but was being forced, I couldn’t become what I wanted to be until I decided to fight the world back and join the Tribe of Linchpins.
The job market got personal by giving stagnant wages, health insurance and a false illusion of job security. Job security is what everyone fights for, or rather procrastinates for. Every job began as a job where people didn’t have to think until their job was on the line. Then, instead of becoming a linchpin, an artist, a creator, they chose to make the tasks of the job last longer. Job security became self-controlled. This is what I grew up noticing. I say it in past tense because job security isn’t a result of always having stuff on your to-do list anymore. No. Job security has become something else, something better, something beneficial.
Job security is only available to linchpins. The ones who do the jobs and all the other tasks that aren’t getting done. It may not be their job, but to a linchpin, that’s no reason not to do it. This is what job security means. Instead of being told what to do -which is repetitive and produces the same exact dull results over and over- linchpins figure out what to do. Figuring something out taps potential on the shoulder and tells her to get to work. It produces greater, more important, more human results and 95% of the time more profit than dictated results.
Linchpins produce emotional labor, not the kind of work you’re doing now where you come home frustrated and exhausted from doing what you’re told (always more exhausting than doing art). See, cogs are people who have been manipulated and brainwashed not to stop to think if what they are doing is different, human and actually productive above the average standards. Linchpins not only stop themselves, pause and find out how to be more creative, but they have the ability to stop other cogs, redirect then, and turn them into creative linchpins because being a linchpin means being leader and being a leader is about making other people leaders. Leaders are indispensable which means job security is universal. This job security doens’t mean you will stay at one job forever, it means that you will always have a job, a place where it will be your responsiblity to do what linchpins do best.
Stay Positive & This Job Security Is Sooo Much Better
Garth E. Beyer (secured since 1992)
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Garth E. Beyer
It’s easy to jump one step, sometimes it’s essential. It’s called the Vanishing Step.
It’s not, however, as easy to jump two or possibly three steps. It’s even worse when you jump the vanishing step only to realize the second one you planned to land on isn’t there. It’s a risk. One that you don’t need to take.
That step that isn’t there, that unwelcome surprise, it’s called the Limiting Step. It’s the step that will trip you up no matter how perfectly timed your jump is.The Limiting Step prevents you from getting any higher on the stairway to success.
Unless…
You build the skill-set up that is holding you back. The Limiting Step symbolizes everything you lack that prevents you from reaching the top of the stairs: your goal. Those few books you haven’t touched, those couple of skills you have never sharpened and those few fears you have never faced all make up the Limiting Step.
To eliminate the Limiting Step, you have to ask yourself a few questions:
What is it you know the least about that is necessary for you to reach your goal?
What have you been consistently avoiding?
What is it you fear most?
Well? What is it you need to learn and practice before you make the jump?
Stay Positive & You Need More Leg Muscle To Make The Jump, So Work The Lower End (of your skills)
Garth E. Beyer
That is just insane, but it doesn’t mean that you should ignore the golden fact that if you do the same thing you get the same results.
Want to be the best basketball player, do the same things Michael Jordan did.
Want to be the best writer, do the same things as Ernest Hemingway did.
Want to be the best, orchestrator, bungee jumper, marketer, personal trainer, artist, poet, entrepreneur, teacher, firefighter, changer of the world… do the same things as the best in that field have done.
Yes, you have to switch up what you are doing to get different results, but why risk getting more bad results when you can just do the same thing that the successful have done and become just that – successful.
Stay Positive & Once Your The Best, Then Do Different Things Better
Garth E. Beyer
Sometimes guilty myself, I always hear people say “I need more time”.
Those who mutter these words are likely the ones doing, acting, creating and following through. When you feel that you need more time it ignites a sense of urgency, hectic-ness, and haste. It is what needs to happen before you accomplish and ship anything valuable.
There is a way to just let time flow and “enjoy” yourself. Only through mediocre, dull and banal achievements can you do this. It’s easy. You do less and you get more time to do even less. No need to worry about haste making waste.
However, there is a way to have both and that is through Early Urgency. It’s a talent that can be attained by anyone willing to take control of their efforts, initiative and mind-set and who want more time to enjoy themselves and their accomplishments.
Early Urgency is making yourself flail (sometimes confused with fail), early. It is expediting your efforts before your deadline to ship. By doing so, you have all that time, from when you finished early to the deadline, where you can relax and enjoy yourself.
Warning: For some reason, the side effect to Early Urgency is that there are more phenomenal products being shipped early, never a peep about needing more time, and rarely ever, does someone want to just let time flow to enjoy themselves. They get all the enjoyment they need out of the frequent act of shipping their creations.
Stay Positive & Quicken Your Pace To Win The Race (To The Top)
Garth E. Beyer
