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Career Career Tips 14 March 2016

From good to ridiculously great in 3 easy steps

Because, really, don’t we all want to be ‘a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room,’ as Mark Manson puts it. Yup. So, let’s clinch a deal here. Let’s go to ridiculously great this year. Because why not? Exactly! And there’s more good news: it isn’t that difficult to accomplish either. You got this.

Okay, let’s to a little warmup first (because: fun!). Let’s listen to the advice of a few ridiculously brainiacs who’ll super charge your greatness within minutes. There’s Mark Manson who writes killer pieces on personal development and carries out genius sentences like: “A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.”

Is this guy married yet?

Anyway, something to think about.

Another one, from go getter Ash Ambirge: “So many people are scared of their own shadow. Scared to say what they think, to assert their wants, to do the thing they want to do, to take a stand for something they believe in. But if you want to do something out of the ordinary; do something worth doing with the little time you have on this crazy little planet, then you need to learn how to get taken seriously. The only way you can get taken seriously? Is if you have your own opinions.”

Last but not least (and, yes, then we’re going to learn how to become ridiculously great for real), one from Jim Collins - who actually wrote the book Good to Great (ha!): “Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.” Ka-ching!

All warmed up? Let’s get this greatness started!

1. Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off, and then figure out where to drive the bus. The mistake we’re often making, is that we tend to first figure out where we want to go and then see what people are helpful to get us there. That’s a pity, because the right people might take your bus even beyond where you dreamed of taking it. So: first who then what.

2. Get off the doomloop, and onto the flywheel. The thing with flywheels is that you have to get it moving with small pushes one step at a time, but once you get it moving it gains enough momentum to keep running and it generates a whopping amount of power that is sustainable. With a doomloop you’ll just get stuck in an endless loop of inconsistency. Short term gains aren’t what you want.

3. Make a stop doing list. Share with us: what do you need to stop doing?

Curious yet where all this wisdom comes from? Go visit the website of sparkplug Natalie Macneil. And make sure you’ll watch her video on becoming enormously great.

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