Four Ways to Avoid Complacency: NEVER Hit Pause on Your Career
Published: Tue, 02/21/17
Four Ways to Avoid Complacency: NEVER Hit Pause on Your Career
After finally accomplishing a tough task or achieving a long-term goal, it’s human nature to want to sit back and take a breather. “I deserve a little down time,” you might think. The Romans called it “resting on your laurels,” because back then a laurel-leaf crown was a common reward for winning an athletic or
political contest. The problem? You might feel satisfied because you’ve gotten where you want to be or hit your numbers and rest on your laurels too long. When you’ve achieved a massive goal, I think it’s indeed cause for a celebration. However, getting through a long day of meetings isn’t cause for a mindless day the following.
When resting on your laurels turns into complacency, you have a real problem. Complacency can kill your business and your career. Indeed, it can be argued that complacency on the part of the Roman leadership ultimately resulted in the fall of the empire.
No matter how successful you’re been in the past, your company leadership and the general public live by the tenet of the old Janet Jackson song: “What have you done for me lately?” While past accomplishments remain important, they don’t hold a candle to what you’re doing now. If you’re doing very little, you’ll eventually starve yourself out of a career. So let’s look at a few ways to avoid complacency altogether.
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