FOLLOW the rules. Don’t be late for work. Fulfill your job description. Find a way to improve in small ways everyday: a better office area, a more functional space, an optimal use of things, and a presentable set of clothes. Consider your work as a daily masterpiece in progress.
Identify what your colleagues need and get ready to help. Always have five (5) one-hundred-peso bills and one (1) five-hundred-peso bill so that when your boss or officemate need some change, you are ready for it. Pick that trash lying around, arrange those files scattered on the table, and create a home environment that looks good when you come home after work.
At the early stage of your life and career, obedience is the key to self-improvement. Do not rock the boat, yet, so to speak. Know the people around you. Observe the work culture. Focus on working during working hours. Do not complain when more tasks are given to you. The moment you enter the office, program yourself to work until it is time “not to work.” And when it is already after office hours, shut down your work-mode program and transition into other life-projects.
Work with integrity. Work to the point that you become so productive that it gives you pride and honor.
Instead of drowning yourself in a work atmosphere of always beating the deadline, create a powerful momentum of doing things in advance. With this, you will generate a work cycle that increases your self-esteem.
If you are given seven (7) days to finish that report from today, finish it in five (5) days. Take charge of your time and energy. Do not allow work pressure to stress you out due to lack of time.
Dominate your day with proactive executions of responsibilities. When you find yourself worrying and gossiping around, and you feel like you can’t work due to office problems and personal concerns, solve your worries by action. Any small action you do while feeling down is the cure to your self-induced ailment.
Sometimes, resting or sleeping will not recharge your depleting energy. It is the doing of the task and the finishing of the task ahead of schedule that will actually give you more energy. In a sense, creating a momentum and having a bias for action do not make you tired. Ironically, the more you work properly, the more you will want to work because you know that you are in charge.
When you are able to take charge of your work and manage all sorts of daily demands from your superior or your colleagues, you create your own peace of mind because no deadline is haunting you while you work or while you sleep.
Try this: work so hard with full focus and intensity that by 2:30PM your boss will say that’s enough for today. Meaning, you have to work harder than your boss. You have to work harder than your colleagues. When I say work harder, it is not so much about being in the office until nighttime. Let’s be honest here, it is rare for an employee to utilize the entire office hours working diligently.
Depress? Stop complaining; start working.
“You Work For Others Until You Can Work For Yourself.
You Work For Yourself Until You Can Work For Others.
This Is The Power Curve Of Ambition.
Early In Your Career, You Trade Obedience For Access – You Learn Systems Built By Stronger Men.
Later In Your Career, You Trade Independence For Influence – You Build Systems That Stronger Men Can Enter.
The First Phase Teaches You Discipline.
The Second Phase Teaches You Direction.
People Don’t Fail Because They Lack Talent.
They Fail Because They Stay Too Long In A Phase That No Longer Serves Them.
The Employee Who Refuses To Evolve Becomes Disposable.
The Entrepreneur Who Refuses To Delegate Becomes Invisible.
Power Expands When It Flows. Power Collapses When It Hoards.
Master Both Phases, And You Stop Chasing Opportunity – Opportunity Starts Reporting To You.”—Modern Machiavelli/PN
