Follow the Followers and you will see where they get. You will most likely miss out on where you could have gone had you taken your path. But you will have gotten somewhere, maybe where you wanted to go? That’s an unknown. But leading yourself, you’ll always be where you want to be.
What is the one metric that defines you? What is the one metric that people think of when they think of you? What is the one metric you want to be known for? That metric could be anything. It’s yours to identify, yours to figure out, yours to make it your own.
Maybe you’re the defacto expert who gets called on to fix things. You probably didn’t start out wanting to be that person – it just happened. Now you’re the “Expert”—but you don’t want to be, and you’re the expert only in what you need to know to overcome the problem you’re facing. The only way to stop being the “Expert” is to bring others into the fold, involve others, write documentation, push out information, and…
People might think you’re the Guru, they might think you’re the expert, and you might be revered as the superstar because of what you’ve done in the past. But you don’t know it all. And the quicker you state it, the quicker everyone stops waiting for you to figure things out for them. You don’t know it all, it’s better than okay to admit it. And when it starts with you, you’ll immediately see the…
Having a working Sump Pump during a rain storm, during a flood, can be your savior. A Sump Pump is a hole in your basement that has a pump in it, when the water fills up the hole to a certain level, the pump turns on and starts pumping that water out of your house. Your house is saved. When there is no water in the hole, the pump never runs. Depending on where you…