How to get more than just a paycheck from your job

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How often do you feel like your job or your boss is in charge of your life?

Are you overworked?

Underpaid?

Underappreciated?

Constantly stressed?

If any of those bells are going off in your head, it’s time to take control.

By using your job instead of letting your job use you. 

You may see your job as all you have and yes, you may need it for now.

But here’s the powerful mindset shift: Start viewing it as nothing but a stepping stone. To get yourself where you’d like to be.

It is not a final destination.

Think of it as the recliner you jump from, to the big comfortable couch while playing a hot game of “the floor is lava” when you were a kid.

Or maybe you still play “the floor is lava” as an adult. No judgment.

Your job absolutely does not define who you are! Your actions outside of your job do.

You have absolute power to take control of your job and your daily habits. Use your job to your advantage. Use it only to make your dreams come true.

Here are a couple of ways of doing so:

• Gain new skills. Learn everything you can with their equipment and their clients.

• See how a business is run and always be on the lookout for other learning opportunities!

• Build your network. Speak with their clients, speak with your co-workers, and (be careful with this one) even speak with the trusted higher-ups of the company! But NEVER spill too much information to anyone. Especially too soon. Low-key progress is the best progress.

Be intentional about your actions and decisions, and use every opportunity to move closer to your goals.

Identifying your goals and creating a plan to achieve them will be the best thing for you.

But always remember that no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy.

Meaning you must adapt as you go. Feel things out and take note of what is working along with what isn’t.

While I was gaining all I could from my 9-5 job and at the same time building my escape plan. I would always ask myself this:

Would you rather make someone else’s dreams come true? Or your own?

Time to get to thinking!

Andy