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Welcome back. Happy Wednesday morning to you. Today’s podcast is a rant. And I want you to stay with me because this rant is a good one, it’s going to be a good one. Hopefully, hopefully. So the kind of profession I’m in, I get to talk to a lot of people. When people ask questions, I respond to them. Primarily back in the day via consultations, today, we are this podcast, text messages. Occasionally, when I meet people in some social setting, and they come to know that I’m there, they walk up to me asked me questions, which I wholeheartedly answer in the time that I have with them. But I also get questions from my friends, and occasionally from my family members, when they have run out of all the options, their own thinking, it’s not working.
None of the solutions that were told to them by others are not working. They want to check with me, they want to find out if I can help them. Little do they know that I’m just like them. And if everybody else is not able to help them? What can I help with? Regardless, they ask, and suddenly I find myself in long drawn-out conversations that otherwise in the end have little or no effect. I just got out of such a conversation yesterday with a friend of mine who has been looking to get a job for a long time. He hopped from one gig to another. He thinks he can make more money, he thinks he’s more qualified and has more experience, but for some reason. He’s not making money. So he was asking me what I think about his situation. So explains the whole thing, which was known to me anyway. But then because this was coming from him, I thought, if I answered it, then it’s going to work. See if I from my side, tell him what he should do. That’s not going to work. We seek it, I thought he’s seeking it. So I said, Okay, I’ll help. So this is how I approached his problem. The first question I asked him is, do you go to work? Because there is something you can do? Or do you go to work to do something? He couldn’t answer that question. And the reason why I’m sharing this video is that I want you to ask that answer to that question yourself.
You go to work because there is something there to be done or you go to work to do something. And I want you to take some time and answer this, the chances are, you go to work because there is something to be done. If that is true. And in the majority of the cases, that is the truth. And that’s what is the case with my friend, you will be unhappy. And you are getting unhappier by the day. It’s just a matter of time before you leave. And it’s just a matter of time before you go to a new job or a new dynamic. And it’s just about time that you will repeat the same thing also. So it’s important that you drive something from within you. That you go you create something or you co-create something or you influence something very rarely people do. And those people who do that make a lot of money. So I just wrapped up the conversation with one question and one explanation. So people who go to do something, make a lot of money. And the reason why you’re not making money is that you go there just because there is something to be done. Hence, it doesn’t work. It needs a little bit. So he was not happy. He wanted a bigger explanation, and I understand it needs a bigger explanation anyway. So here’s the truth. Average work doesn’t create wealth.
I’ve seen a lot of wealthy people and they and one thing are common they never did average work. They worked hard. They work. They did the same work repeatedly for a long amount of time for many, many years. But average work is not going to make you wealthy. So you need to be sincere, committed, really, really pushing the limits of Whatever you’re doing so, for that you need to have an incredible work ethic. What is this incredible work ethic that means you show up at work with enthusiasm, that you show up at work with an attitude of gratitude that which that means you show up at work, with excitement? And while you are there, you refuse to procrastinate, while you are there, you are focused while you are there you are meeting deadlines while you are there, and you are creative. While you are there, you are setting up and up and up, doing bigger and better things. And that you look at problems, you analyze problems, you look at other people’s situations, you understand them, you help them you literally take make yourself accountable to their projects and their tasks. And you really run the floor.
For lack of a better word, you run the floor. I was at one point in time running close, literally, members are stepping down on the floor. That means I’m I know exactly who is who, what they’re doing what needs to be done. And I, you know, sometimes I have found myself in situations where I do not know what people are doing. And that was the recipe for my failure and I lost out multiple times. And I, I overstayed my welcome. And I was fired multiple times. Earl Nightingale said something incredible. This court, I printed at one time in my life and posted it on my wall. And I used to wake up in the morning and look at that wall and remind myself before I used to go to work, the amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do. Our ability to do it. And the difficulty in replacing us. The reason why my friend moves from one job to the other. Not that he is bad. It’s just that he is easily replaceable. There is nothing unique about him. There is nothing that makes him better than anybody else. Not that others have the gift but others have put in the effort.
So my message to him was that if you’re discussing this further, rather, let’s talk about what can you do to improve and make yourself more relevant, to bring in some more knowledge, some certification, some understanding something, something new, you have to bring in so that you become indispensable if not, you’ll be replaced. The truth is all of us will be replaced. Nothing is permanent anyway. But the point here is that let the employer also have difficulty in replacing you that you make yourself indispensable for the work you do and the knowledge you bring and the wisdom that you spread. Do that your money struggles go away, the insecurities go away. You become more aligned more firm, to whatever challenges come your way. And you’re always on top of your game. Very simple. And as I started talking to him, I found out that he really lacks the desire to do this. Why does something when you don’t have the desire? Why do why even get into something when you fundamentally don’t? You don’t have the desire? That means you don’t believe in what you do. You want somebody else to believe what you’re doing. See, it’s such a sad narrative. If I tell you to believe in self-improvement, and I don’t believe in it, such as sad narrative. It’s, you will figure this out. There is no way I can hide it sooner or later, you’ll figure this out. Anybody will figure this out. If I asked you to do something that I do not do them, literally. Let’s say that you can’t figure it out. Let’s say that I can totally get away with it. The truth is eventually, right? You run a race because somebody else is running with you. So you want to beat them. So you run faster. But then you run faster eventually let’s say that you are running fast, and nobody’s running with you.
There is no way that you can maintain that pace and that energy eventually you’ll run out of energy you’re gonna fall and that’s the end that’s the fall. That’s all worked with that. So there is no way life will catch up with you. One way or the other. So success whatever success you are seeking, I’m seeking all of us are seeking it involves daily grind, daily grind, success or growth each daily grind and that there are all ways, the truth is you will never ever get paid for whatever you do, you will always be paid less for what you do. And that you have to give more than what you receive. Always this rule of life, the whole conversation went very, very far. But you get the idea. And I asked him, I told him to remove any self, these are all limitations, and I’m old, and I can’t go and take a certificate and everything that I told him, that was an objection. Anything I was telling him, there was an objection. So I kept on. Now I don’t think I have anymore. I’m not as good of a learner, my kids are going to college now. And all of them that just serving him his position he’s understanding. So unless you don’t remove your own self-imposed limitations, none of the strategies and techniques work. Very simple. There’s no secret to this. I’m going to stop here, this has gone too far. There was a bit more to that conversation. But I’m going to stop here. Hopefully, this is helpful. The reason why I’m sharing this video is that I want you to take charge of your career. get control of your actions, put yourself in a mode of momentum where you’re constantly, you know, working and feeling good about the work that you’re doing. And you apply yourself holistically through everything that you intend to do. And job becomes. You know work is very simple, you know, work. Your work should be your life. And your life is nothing but the body of your work. And you work in such a way that you forget yourself. I’m promising you I’m recording the podcast, I forget myself. I’m not here because I need to do something I need to get over it. No, never. But I’m recording I’m forgetting myself. And I’m also forgetting time. If you do your work, right, you don’t know the time. You don’t know which day it is.
Sometimes I don’t know which day it is. Because Sunday or Monday or Tuesday is all they’re all same for me. I live every day the same. I do everything every day and I’m the same. It’s not like I’m gonna relax, relate a Friday and there’s no Friday. There is no Monday. They’re all the same. Your wants disappear. If you really are working your wants disappear. You’re working for money. Oh, I need to get some money. If I don’t make money. Oh, it’s just a bad, absolutely a bad narrative. Just a bad narrative. So I told him to go get some passion. Or find some passion, get some passion. You can’t buy passion, but you get to the point. Go, become passionate about what you do. You can’t become passionate about what you’re doing. Change your careers, go do something else or sit on the sidelines and watch the parade go by. As simple as that.
Okay, I’m going to start here you have a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. I’ll catch up with you tomorrow. Hopefully, today’s podcast is going to you know, bring that focus back into you. So you start taking seriously your job, whatever work that you do, you’ll start taking that seriously even in business, you run a business, you know, people get into funk state. All the time I get into a funk state. I need to bring my seriousness back. That’s how you do it. You got to ask some serious questions. Okay. That’s all wherever you want to be safe and I’ll talk to you soon. Bye now.