You Are Ready!

We underestimate how ready we are, to wear “bigger shoes” in our career journeys. In other words, even though we are ready, we have doubts. But if you look, when we take courage to take risks, we can discover ways to FALL FORWARD. 

It is important to note that no one was born a CEO. Yes, before he became a CEO, he was at a time “not a CEO”.  When we apply for only jobs we are 100% ready on Day 1, we diminish our ascension prospects. Yes, any job which you are 100% ready on Day 1 is not an elevation, but possibly a change of job title.  Why not? “A bird that flew from the ground only to perch on an ant-hill is still very much on the ground.” 

To advance, and move to the next level, you must aim HIGHER, and be open to wear bigger shoes.  For that, we need to change our mindsets, reshaping our thinking in the absolute sense that we are ready – ready for that promotion, elevation, higher call, etc, because we’re ready.

As I have noted here, those big people with BIG titles are not always all smarter than us. That they have titles must not intimidate and confuse you. Sure, some are super brilliant, but in their communities, there are titled-forgettables. But because of those titles, you could be tricked to think they are supreme. Nothing like that.

Of course, the problem is not the titled people. The issue is you, and what you have conditioned your mind for. In the league of CEOs, Directors, GMs, Partners, etc, there are greats and “averages”. That you have not gotten that title does not mean you do not belong therein.

This is my observation: we overrate titles because no one has given us one. We imagine what they discuss in those boardrooms because none has admitted us. But the day you enter that room, you will ask yourself: why did it take this long to make it here? Now, you see why you have to shorten that wait period, and go for it because you are ready.

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