#58 - Grow Your Career By Ignoring Others

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Salesforce attracts talented folks from all around the world.

Despite trying their best, only the few stick to it and become successful.

Reason?

People focus on trivial things.

Things that won't help them advance their careers but instead waste their time and energy.

In today's issue, I am going to talk about some common factors which have little to no positive effect on your Salesforce careers.

Not paying attention to these factors helped me:

• Avg. 32% pay bump every year

• Increase my salary by 312% in 4 years

• Collect 15K more after my initial job offers

So, let's cover each factor one by one so you can do the same:

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#1: The power of “No”

How many times have you done something simply because you felt obligated?

Or you didn’t want to hurt someone’s feelings?

This has been a struggle most of my life believe it or not.

And worse… it’s led to bad jobs, poor relationships, and lots of misunderstanding.

So I buckled down, read an insanely helpful book called “Not Nice” and started saying No more often than I would say yes.

Results?

• Better job performance

• Genuine relationships

• Amazing work life balance

I highly recommend trying this out

#2: Other peoples opinions

We all give advice to our closest friends & family on this one

“Don’t listen to them!”

OR

“Who cares about their opinion!”

But when it comes to ourselves…?

Ehhh… not usually the same. We listen instead of ignore.

No matter what you do, you’ll run into ppl during your career who will share their opinion with you and it might even something thats rude.

It’ll happen.

So how do you truly ignore it?

Get better at making decisions for yourself without consulting others.

1. It’ll build your confidence

2. It’ll help you minimize getting so many opinions on what you do

By just doing these 2 things it’s made my career choices much easier to make and stand by.

#3: How “silly” you look

I’ve seen people give up on their dreams… just because they were afraid of looking silly.

• They failed the admin cert “too many times”

• They didn’t get a job “fast enough”

• They were offered a salary “lower than normal”

^ all stupid things that are subjective and nobody else cares about.

Yet… they get too in their head about it and quit all together.

Again, refer to point 2.

Make more decisions on your own

Don’t feel the need to consult everyone on ever move you want to make

Those two things will make the “spotlight” you feel you have, go away.

Why?

Because less people will know what you are up to.

And Remember…

“Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

#4: Your age

If you are 25 now,

No matter what, in 10 years you’ll be 35.

You have the choice to be:

35-year-old who:

• built their business

• learned a new skill

• got a degree

OR

35-year-old who:

• thought it was too late to start

Seems more obvious when it’s put like that, right?

Exactly.

So follow your gut and start.

That’s all for this week. 1 simple salesforce tip to grow your career.

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Jordan