A few years back, I worked in a life insurance company.I’d always been fascinated with wealth planning, and the position allowed me virtually free reign within the practice. I was able to sit in at company branch during procedures, learn about the wealth planning process, chat with prospects in many appointments, and much more.
Basically, the position of “wealth planner” was a great fit for me, but I still wasn’t happy at work.
Even though I had exposure to many areas, I was rarely given the responsibility and target pressure I thought I deserved. My opinions seemed to count for very little, and I only had a few friends within the process—if you could call them that.
Even though I was in a good job in the field that I loved, I still left each day feeling a little less happy with my decision to work there. I didn’t hate my job, but was this really what I was hoping for? I would think things like, “Is this as good as it’s going to get for me?”
It’s easy to fall into this trap of mediocrity. In the beginning, you might be excited to start something new. But pretty soon you fall into a routine, and then one day you wake up and feel like you’re sleep walking through each work day.
1. Bring your personal baggage to work.
The professional culture norm has long been to leave your personal baggage at home. You come in and you do work. We don’t always know if our co-workers are advisers. We don’t know if they are caring for others who demand a lot of their time and energy outside of work. We often don’t know much about our co-workers and what they are personally going through.
Bottom Phrase: Getting
personal at the office increases co-worker trust and clemency.
2. Help someone solve a problem.
When I felt stuck, I reached out to a lawyer in the practice who was working on some exciting new research. His study was interesting, but he was too busy.
I offered to do it for him. As a result, I worked on groundbreaking research and helped the lawyer move forward with his project. After that, he became one of my biggest advocates.
Bottom Phrase:Help each other to solve
their problems.
3. Work is a team sport.
In actuality, that mentality is not as productive. It doesn’t lend itself to happiness, nor to the type of achievement that stems from the cooperation of your teammates.
Don’t act like rivals in your work. Help each other. Create a culture of happiness, cooperation and an open idea- and knowledge-sharing environment. Make it the norm. People naturally work together much better when they’re not pitted against each other.
Bottom phrase: Teamwork
makes the dream work.
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