{"id":15,"date":"2018-04-08T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rethinkingyourjob.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2018-04-29T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:34:53","slug":"hardwork-not-the-answer-p4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rethinkingyourjob.com\/hardwork-not-the-answer-p4\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4: Hard Work (Alone) Is Not The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look I said. I never shared this with you, but I used to be you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, I am a Vice President of a fun, vibrant Tech Company today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But don&#8217;t let what you see fool you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before I got here and even today<strong> I <\/strong><\/span><strong> suffered so many setbacks and was plagued\u00a0by self-doubt, fear, anxiety, and frustration. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference is today I know exactly\u00a0how to win in spite\u00a0of these setbacks and crippling emotions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I now know it&#8217;s all part of the game and journey of my career and life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But back then?&#8230; Man let me tell ya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was so painful and confusing. I was giving it my\u00a0all and still not getting the results I so badly wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I too was passed over for promotions and failed to achieve other career goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I saw people join\u00a0the company after me, at my level, only to bypass me. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could not understand why. Or what I was doing wrong. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just kept plugging away working hard, DOING more of same (consciously and unconsciously). <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only difference in approach was that each time I came with more intensity and swear to persevere to the end. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was going to brute force my way to success. Whatever it took, I was going to work harder and longer and knock my walls down. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does\u00a0this Sound familiar to you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hard work\/try harder strategy worked for a while. Especially early on in my career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>***Sidebar:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(BTW &#8216;&#8221;Hard work\u00a0Strategy&#8221; that&#8217;s a misnomer. It&#8217;s not a strategy and you will see why later) <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I advanced quickly merely by brute forcing it &#8211; more time (read more sacrifice) and stronger effort. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then the game changed. Drastically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It happened\u00a0when\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got to the level you are at now,\u00a0 then the b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rute force (hard work) &#8220;strategy&#8221; by itself stopped working.\u00a0Or I should say became considerably less useful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was no longer sufficient and sustainable (by itself) to help me realize the similar past progress by itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And by that time something else\u00a0had occurred.\u00a0<\/span><strong>I had no more sacrifices left in me to make:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was nothing else I could give up to squeeze more hours out of the day. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I was at my\u00a0limits as far as energy goes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Push any harder, and I risked my\u00a0health and personal relationships. Both were already less than I desired. That was too high a price to pay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I felt like the housefly trapped, trying hard to fly through the window glass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One\u00a0attempt, after another, each time trying harder and harder. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I saw no change EXCEPT burnout and increasing stress.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I became clear to me that if I wanted a different fate than the housefly, i.e., dead on the window sill, then something needed to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was missing some other ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that\u2019s when I stumbled on to something that changed everything for me\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkingyourjob.com\/the-secret-that-changed-everything-p6\/\">Continue Reading&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look I said. 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