Heres why you might want to rethink that I can do it all attitude.
If youre a chronic overachiever, however, being adequate isnt ever enough.
That sounds like a good thing, but it can actually lead to some serious problems.
Choosing one project to focus on at the expense of another can cause tremendous turmoil.
This punch in of wheel spinning is a drain on personal productivity.
On top of all that, an overachieving perfectionists work is never quite finished.
Theres always just one more thing to do or something you have to do.
If that sounds familiar, youve made rules for yourself that only you care about.
Remember,perfect is the enemy of good.
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And while those people may see you as reliable, some folks will take advantage of that fact.
We teach others how we want to be treated.
Take a minute to think about what your duties really are.
If youre not sure, sit down with your boss and ask them.
Your boss may not even expect you to be doing half of the things you are doing.
Heck, they may not even know.
The sad reality is, the hardest workers dont always get promoted.
To get promoted, you gotta show that youre valuable.
Number two may sound like being an overachiever, and youd be rightbut thegoodkind.
Bringing more value beyond your assigned work doesnt mean doing anything and everything that needs to be done.
It means that you should be coming up with new ideas and projects, then executing them without direction.
Instead, focus oncreating valuefor your place of work, not just fulfilling on it.
They can position the company to achieve victory in multiple ways and move on non-linear paths.
Buzz, buzz, worker bee.
But how much of that is them and how much of it is you?
He likes doing that stuff.
That resentment only escalates if they do happen to get promoted over you too.
Let your coworkers pick up some of that slack and you might find you like them a bit more.
Even more so for an overachiever.
It doesnt matter that no one else is monitoring our permanent records.
We are carefully maintaining our files in triplicate because well, thats what makes us good at overachieving.
Moving past your failuresbecomes more than a learning experience.
It becomes the painful acceptance that you arent as capable as you thought.
You dont have to settle for just being adequate, but theres nothing wrong with regular achieving either.
Doing things harder, faster, and in abundance doesnt always lead to success.
As a famous tortoise once showed us, slow and steady wins the race.
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