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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and goala giving.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host

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<v Speaker 1>Paul Fellavledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode six ninety three. Let me start with something

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<v Speaker 2>that might catch you off guard. Most people are not

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<v Speaker 2>unhappy with their job because of the job. They are

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<v Speaker 2>unhappy because of how they see the job, and that

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<v Speaker 2>matters more than anything else. I want to walk you

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<v Speaker 2>through something today that I see all the time in leadership,

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<v Speaker 2>in ems and business, in every industry. People drift into

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<v Speaker 2>this quiet mindset where their job becomes routine, predictable, and

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<v Speaker 2>eventually invisible. Not invisible to others, invisible to them. They

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<v Speaker 2>stop seeing what is actually there. They stop seeing the value,

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<v Speaker 2>the opportunity, and the leverage sitting right in front of them.

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<v Speaker 2>And once that happens, everything starts to feel heavier, longer days,

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<v Speaker 2>more frustration, less purpose. But here is the shift. Your

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<v Speaker 2>job is probably better than you think, not because it

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<v Speaker 2>is perfect, but because you are underestimating what it is

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<v Speaker 2>actually giving you. Let me explain, every job is doing

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<v Speaker 2>three things at the same time. It's paying you, it's

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<v Speaker 2>training you, and it's positioning you. Most people only focus

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<v Speaker 2>on the first one, the paycheck. So when the paycheck

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<v Speaker 2>feels too small or the work feels too repetitive, they

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<v Speaker 2>start to disconnect. But the leaders who when the ones

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<v Speaker 2>who build momentum, they are focused on the second and

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<v Speaker 2>third parts, training and positioning. Let's talk about training first.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, wherever you work, you are getting real world

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<v Speaker 2>reps that someone else would pay to have. You are

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<v Speaker 2>learning how people behave under pressure. You are learning how

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<v Speaker 2>systems break. You are learning how communication fails. You're learning

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<v Speaker 2>how decisions ripple across a team. That is leadership education

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<v Speaker 2>in real time, no classroom, no textbook, no corporate bs.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's the part most people miss. You don't need

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<v Speaker 2>a better job to get better training. You need better

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<v Speaker 2>awareness inside the job you already have. If you walk

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<v Speaker 2>into work tomorrow and decide I'm going to study this

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<v Speaker 2>place like a flight instructor studies a cockpit, everything changes.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you're not stuck. Now you're observing. Now you're learning patterns.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you're seeing things most people ignore. That alone can

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<v Speaker 2>change your entire experience. Now let's talk about positioning. Every

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<v Speaker 2>job is a platform. It is either positioning you for

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<v Speaker 2>your next move or it is exposing you for staying

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<v Speaker 2>too comfortable. And that's a hard reality. Some people stay

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<v Speaker 2>in the same role for years and say there is

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<v Speaker 2>no opportunity here, and that's not always true. What is

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<v Speaker 2>true is that they stopped using the job as a platform.

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<v Speaker 2>They stopped raising their hand, they stopped solving problems, they

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<v Speaker 2>stopped becoming visible for the right reasons. And when that happens,

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<v Speaker 2>the job feels small because they made it small. I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to think about this from an aviation perspective.

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<v Speaker 2>When you're flying again. One hundred times I've said it,

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<v Speaker 2>you can be slightly off course and not even realize it.

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<v Speaker 2>At first, one degree off does not feel like much,

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<v Speaker 2>but over time that one degree takes you miles away

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<v Speaker 2>from where you intended to go. The same thing happens

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<v Speaker 2>in your job. You start slightly disengaged, you stop paying

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<v Speaker 2>attention to the details, you stop looking for opportunities, and

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<v Speaker 2>over time you drift into a place where the job

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<v Speaker 2>feels meaningless, not because it is meaningless, but because you

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<v Speaker 2>drifted away from what made it valuable. Now here's where

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<v Speaker 2>this gets powerful. If you correct that one degree, everything

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<v Speaker 2>starts to come back. You start to see the job differently,

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<v Speaker 2>you start to use it differently, you start to extract

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<v Speaker 2>value from it again. And now the same job that

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<v Speaker 2>felt frustrating starts to feel like a training ground. And

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<v Speaker 2>let me give you something tactical. When you walk into

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<v Speaker 2>work next, I want you to ask yourself three questions.

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<v Speaker 2>What is this job teaching me today? Where can I

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<v Speaker 2>solve a problem that no one is addressing? And how

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<v Speaker 2>is this role positioning me for something bigger? Those three

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<v Speaker 2>questions will change how you experience your job because now

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<v Speaker 2>you're not waiting for the job to improve, you are

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<v Speaker 2>actively using it. And that is what leaders do. They

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<v Speaker 2>don't sit back and evaluate their job like a customer.

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<v Speaker 2>They step in and use their job like a tool.

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<v Speaker 2>There is another layer to this that we need to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about, and it is uncomfortable. Some of you are

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<v Speaker 2>waiting for your job to validate you. You want recognition,

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<v Speaker 2>you want appreciation. You want someone to say you are

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<v Speaker 2>doing a great job, and when that doesn't happen, your

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<v Speaker 2>motivation drops. Listen carefully. If your job is your only

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<v Speaker 2>source of validation, you will always feel like something is missing.

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<v Speaker 2>Strong leaders flip that. They bring their own standard into

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<v Speaker 2>the job. They decide how they are going to perform,

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<v Speaker 2>They decide how they're going to show up. They decide

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<v Speaker 2>what their work means. And because of that, the job

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<v Speaker 2>becomes a place where they express their standards, not a

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<v Speaker 2>place where they wait for approval. That shift alone will

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<v Speaker 2>change everything. And now let's go even one step deeper.

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<v Speaker 2>Your job is also a mirror. It reflects your habits,

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<v Speaker 2>It reflects your discipline, it reflects your attitude. If you

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<v Speaker 2>are disengaged, the job will feel worse. If you are sharp,

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<v Speaker 2>focused and intentional, the job will feel different. Same job,

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<v Speaker 2>different experience. That's not theory, that is reality from the

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<v Speaker 2>front lines. I've seen people take the same role in

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<v Speaker 2>the same building under the same conditions, and one person

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<v Speaker 2>thrives while the other struggles. Difference is not the job,

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<v Speaker 2>it's how they are using the job. And this ties

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<v Speaker 2>directly into your long term career because the habits you

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<v Speaker 2>build in your current job do not stay there. They

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<v Speaker 2>follow you. If you are cutting corners now, you will

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<v Speaker 2>cut corners later. If you are disengaged now, you will

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<v Speaker 2>be disengaged later. If you're proactive now, you will be

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<v Speaker 2>proactive later. Your job is not just what you do,

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<v Speaker 2>it is who you are becoming while you are doing it.

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<v Speaker 2>That is why your job is better than you think,

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<v Speaker 2>because it is shaping you in ways you might not

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<v Speaker 2>even realize yet. So here's your challenge for the next

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<v Speaker 2>seven days. Treat your job like a leadership lab. Walk

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<v Speaker 2>in with intention, pay attention to everything, look for patterns,

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<v Speaker 2>solve problems, raise your standard, and watch what happens not

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<v Speaker 2>to the job, to you, because when you change how

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<v Speaker 2>you show up, the job reveals what it has been

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<v Speaker 2>offering you all along. And that is the moment where

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<v Speaker 2>everything shifts. Your job is not the ceiling that you

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<v Speaker 2>think it is. It is the platform you have not

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<v Speaker 2>fully used yet. Start using it, start learning from it,

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<v Speaker 2>start positioning yourself through it. Seven minutes a day of

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<v Speaker 2>intentional focus inside your current role can change your entire

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<v Speaker 2>career path, and it starts the next time you walk

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<v Speaker 2>through the door. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com.