Is it true?

In Seth Godin’s blog he makes a comment – ‘you’re far better off helping the perfect improve’. As I thought about it more deeply there is a very good point to this. In my mind he is saying the old adage ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink’ – and boy is that true. In other words, if someone doesn’t want to improve then it is simple… they won’t. In fact, they may go as far as to sabotage any opportunity for improvement in order to stay in the status quo, or what they are familiar with. Whether it is good, bad or limiting – it feels normal, therefore comfortable. Why should they change?

When this is applied to someone’s career it is also very true. The spectrum ranges from the trailblazers, or those who have a mindset geared around career/personal growth and success, to the whiner-diner’s – or those who always believe it is someone else’s responsibility to make success happen for them. Those folks usually have a ‘story’ around why they are not successful (and that story is like a finger pointing at someone else). Success comes to those who reach for it…again, and again, and again. In other words, it is less a destination but a mindset and a belief that the buck-stops-with-you. To me, Seth’s comments pointed to a success mentality, those that have a desire towards continued improvement, a belief around oneself that captures both possibility and ingenuity.

Posted by Robin Ogden - FiredUP Careers

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