Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode three sixty three. And have you seen the
Speaker 2: motivational social media post by that person that says a
Speaker 2: bottle of water costs one dollar at the grocery store,
Speaker 2: The same bottle is two dollars at the gym if
Speaker 2: you go through TSA, it's now four dollars at the airport,
Speaker 2: and as soon as you strap into seat twenty two
Speaker 2: B on the airplane, that same bottle of water is
Speaker 2: seven dollars, same water, same content, same plastic bottle. So
Speaker 2: what changed the location? In my friends, is one of
Speaker 2: the simplest realist leadership lessons that you'll ever hear. And
Speaker 2: here's my take on it. It's not about the water,
Speaker 2: It's about where the water is sitting. That seven dollars
Speaker 2: price tag isn't because the water suddenly became special. It's
Speaker 2: because the environment recognized the value it holds in that moment,
Speaker 2: in that place. As a leader, a professional, a person
Speaker 2: trying to rise. It's time you take the same logic
Speaker 2: and apply it to yourself, because too many of you
Speaker 2: are doubting your worth based on the opinions of people
Speaker 2: who are standing in the wrong section of the store,
Speaker 2: people who don't have the capacity, experience, or mindset to
Speaker 2: recognize what you bring to the table. And you're sitting
Speaker 2: there questioning your value, your path, your future, all because
Speaker 2: you're surrounded by people who can't see your shine. Let
Speaker 2: me be blunt. Maybe it isn't you. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: your shelf. Let that sink in for a minute. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's just the shelf that you're sitting on. If you're
Speaker 2: in a place where your ideas get dismissed, if you're
Speaker 2: in a room where you're constantly overlooked, if you're in
Speaker 2: a workplace where your ambition is labeled as too much,
Speaker 2: then you're standing in the wrong place. You're sitting on
Speaker 2: the dollar shelf when you belong on the premium rack.
Speaker 2: You don't need to water yourself down. You don't need
Speaker 2: to sheut louder or beg for recognition. You just need
Speaker 2: to move on. Leadership is knowing when to stay and
Speaker 2: when to go, when to fight for your place and
Speaker 2: when to build a new table altogether, because not everyone
Speaker 2: is built to see your value and that's not your fault,
Speaker 2: that's on them, But staying in that environment that's on you.
Speaker 2: So if we go a layer deeper. We've all heard
Speaker 2: phrases like know you're worth and don't settle, But here's
Speaker 2: my leadership upgrade to that. Put yourself in environments that
Speaker 2: activate your value. Just like the bottle of water gets
Speaker 2: priced higher at the airport because of scarcity and convenience,
Speaker 2: your unique skills, mindset and hustle might be undervalued in
Speaker 2: your current role because it's simply the wrong audience. You
Speaker 2: might be the most loyal person in a disloyal environment,
Speaker 2: the most innovative thinker on a team that fears change,
Speaker 2: the hardest worker in a place that rewards politics over productivity.
Speaker 2: You were the same you, but the setting is suppressing
Speaker 2: your price tag. And here's where most people get stuck.
Speaker 2: They try to convince the gem to start charging airport prices.
Speaker 2: They spend years trying to explain their value to people
Speaker 2: who don't have the capacity to understand it. That's the
Speaker 2: leadership trap. You can't drag people into vision and you
Speaker 2: can't force a culture to see something it refuses to
Speaker 2: look for. So what do you do. You move, You
Speaker 2: find the right setting, You switch shelves, and when you do,
Speaker 2: here's what happens. You start getting paid what you're worth.
Speaker 2: Your voice carries weight, your passion is seen as a strength,
Speaker 2: not a nuisance, and you finally breathe because you're no
Speaker 2: longer swimming upstream in an environment that's allergic to growth.
Speaker 2: This isn't about chasing money or recognition. It's about alignment,
Speaker 2: finding the space that was built for your kind of leadership,
Speaker 2: your kind of fire, your kind of drive. And here's
Speaker 2: the most powerful part. When you level up your environment,
Speaker 2: your confidence catches up. You stop questioning yourself, you stop shrinking,
Speaker 2: you stop playing small. You finally realize I was never
Speaker 2: the problem. I was just on the wrong shelf. So
Speaker 2: here's your leadership challenged today. Look around, Look close. Are
Speaker 2: you in the right room? Is your leadership being seen?
Speaker 2: Is your value being respected? Or are you still the
Speaker 2: one dollar bottle of water waiting for someone to come
Speaker 2: along and realize that you're worth more? Stop waiting. Move
Speaker 2: because sometimes you have to leave to level up. And remember,
Speaker 2: your price tag doesn't define your worth. Your environment does
Speaker 2: This has been this seven minute leadership podcast, and I
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.
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