When you’re an Extraordinary person you have got to expect a few things,
1. Expect life to be a fun-filled roller coaster ride.
With the roller coaster there are a lot of twist, turns, ups and downs. Sometime you don’t even see whats ahead until it happens! The same with life, there will be ups and downs. There will be some wild twist and turns. Sometime these twist, turns, ups and downs will happen so fast that you may even yell out LET ME OFF!! Then the ride ends and coasts to a stop. You climb out of the roller coaster, and with a big smile on your face you ask “whats the next ride, let’s go!”
Have you ever sat down and watch people near a roller coaster. Usually they’re a number of people who won’t even get on and try the ride. In life there are a number of people who just won’t try to achieve their dreams. They believe it’s to risky, or afraid of becoming a failure. In life we learn by doing, sometimes in the learning process we fail! A failure is only truly a failure if we give up! I’ve heard it said that Thomas Edison had over 1,000 failed attempts to perfect the light bulb, I’m sure glad that he didn’t give up on his first attempt!
So take a chance on your dream and go for it!
2. People thinking your strange.
Let me tell you this and please take it to heart, You’re STRANGE! Ok… now you don’t have to be concerned about it, let me tell you that being strange is ok and normal at least for us who are extraordinary. Think of it as a badge of courage, wear it proudly. Because what is normal? Normal is just doing what is needed to be done, nothing more. There is no growth with the person as they never stretches themselves. As I started down the extraordinary pathway I found that I wanted to do more, learn more. I offered to take on more responsibility without expecting more pay, and I have found that I always got rewarded for it. I call it going the extra mile. Do more than expected. I’ve heard it said and unfortunate I have to admit it I have said it, “why should I do more than expected for this company. They don’t care about me!” well you maybe right, but let me tell you something and keep it quiet don’t tell anyone… just want to tel you that doing more than expected isn’t to help your boss, it’s to help you! That’s right be a little selfish do more than expected to help YOU! You will get more out of it than your boss will. It will build up your self-worth better than any medication. You will learn from the experience that you’ll be able to able to other employment. Sometime it will lead to a promotion within the company too. When I first started in retail I let my boss know that I wanted to learn to be a manager, he started to give me more responsibility but because he already had an Assistant Manager he couldn’t offer me any extra income, I did it anyways. When the Assistant Manager got promoted to Manage his own store because I already knew the job I got promoted to the Assistant Manager position that now needed to be filled. Even if I didn’t get a promotion, I would have been able to use that training for another company.
Here is an example of that, as a District Manager for a loan company in Mississippi, I told my new Customer Service Associate that I wanted them to be trained in every aspect of the job. I said to them, “I want you to know what the Manager’s knows.” I also told them that I wouldn’t be able to pay them any extra. After they learnt the job I sometime even had them manage a store for a day or two without extra compensation, all of those staff became great Managers. I was able to promote one of them and other two of my staff got manager positions with my competitors. Did they lose out for going the extra mile? I don’t think so!
Remember life will only give us what we ask of it, if all we ask is for a dollar that will be all we get. If we ask for a million dollars then we’ll get it. There will be challenges we can not get something for nothing! We have to pay the price, so hang in there enjoy the ride enjoy the ups, hang on for the downs, watch out for the twists and turns and in the end you’ll see the rewards at the end of the ride.
And most of all HAVE FUN and ENJOY THE RIDE!
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