I don’t know if this advice is mainstream-guru approved, but normally I don’t give a shit to see things through– and I’m not talking about my own goals.
I’m talking about giving it your all in your current role… which, I never did.
This attitude has helped me stay fluid, move about freely and explore– and eventually led to me finding the right role. It also nearly caused me to leave the right role, because the habit of abandoning ship was over-developed.
I never understood this.
Why give it your all in a place that doesn’t give you its all?
And the answer eventually came to me…
…We’re all in a game of momentum. Objects in motion, stay in motion and if you’re always engaged and moving, you’ll eventually progress into something better but the opposite holds true too.
Keep jumping around, and you’ll have nothing to show for it.
In my role as a writer, I was eventually given the opportunity to direct. This came from me over-involving myself in the entire project, and taking a hands on approach.
I’ve since learned something about freedom– it isn’t what you imagine. That fantasy in your mind of all those things you’ll do when you quit all the things you hate, it isn’t real. I’ve left jobs so swiftly in the past and can tell you, unless you’re being abused or bullied by your 9-5, freedom doesn’t come from leaving.
It comes from submitting.
That is the irony.
Those that constantly abandon ship end up in a perpetual state of starting. They then have to find a new ship to board, and thanks to their unconscious philosophy, without fail they’ll jump ship and repeat the entire process over and over again.
By fully engaging in what’s in front of you, you’ll not only level up– you’ll turn your current role into a fulfilling promotion.
Because it’s not the job you’re committing to or the ship, it’s yourself.
-Fool Forward
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