Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goala giving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellavledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six ninety three. Let me start with something
Speaker 2: that might catch you off guard. Most people are not
Speaker 2: unhappy with their job because of the job. They are
Speaker 2: unhappy because of how they see the job, and that
Speaker 2: matters more than anything else. I want to walk you
Speaker 2: through something today that I see all the time in leadership,
Speaker 2: in ems and business, in every industry. People drift into
Speaker 2: this quiet mindset where their job becomes routine, predictable, and
Speaker 2: eventually invisible. Not invisible to others, invisible to them. They
Speaker 2: stop seeing what is actually there. They stop seeing the value,
Speaker 2: the opportunity, and the leverage sitting right in front of them.
Speaker 2: And once that happens, everything starts to feel heavier, longer days,
Speaker 2: more frustration, less purpose. But here is the shift. Your
Speaker 2: job is probably better than you think, not because it
Speaker 2: is perfect, but because you are underestimating what it is
Speaker 2: actually giving you. Let me explain, every job is doing
Speaker 2: three things at the same time. It's paying you, it's
Speaker 2: training you, and it's positioning you. Most people only focus
Speaker 2: on the first one, the paycheck. So when the paycheck
Speaker 2: feels too small or the work feels too repetitive, they
Speaker 2: start to disconnect. But the leaders who when the ones
Speaker 2: who build momentum, they are focused on the second and
Speaker 2: third parts, training and positioning. Let's talk about training first.
Speaker 2: Right now, wherever you work, you are getting real world
Speaker 2: reps that someone else would pay to have. You are
Speaker 2: learning how people behave under pressure. You are learning how
Speaker 2: systems break. You are learning how communication fails. You're learning
Speaker 2: how decisions ripple across a team. That is leadership education
Speaker 2: in real time, no classroom, no textbook, no corporate bs.
Speaker 2: And here's the part most people miss. You don't need
Speaker 2: a better job to get better training. You need better
Speaker 2: awareness inside the job you already have. If you walk
Speaker 2: into work tomorrow and decide I'm going to study this
Speaker 2: place like a flight instructor studies a cockpit, everything changes.
Speaker 2: Now you're not stuck. Now you're observing. Now you're learning patterns.
Speaker 2: Now you're seeing things most people ignore. That alone can
Speaker 2: change your entire experience. Now let's talk about positioning. Every
Speaker 2: job is a platform. It is either positioning you for
Speaker 2: your next move or it is exposing you for staying
Speaker 2: too comfortable. And that's a hard reality. Some people stay
Speaker 2: in the same role for years and say there is
Speaker 2: no opportunity here, and that's not always true. What is
Speaker 2: true is that they stopped using the job as a platform.
Speaker 2: They stopped raising their hand, they stopped solving problems, they
Speaker 2: stopped becoming visible for the right reasons. And when that happens,
Speaker 2: the job feels small because they made it small. I
Speaker 2: want you to think about this from an aviation perspective.
Speaker 2: When you're flying again. One hundred times I've said it,
Speaker 2: you can be slightly off course and not even realize it.
Speaker 2: At first, one degree off does not feel like much,
Speaker 2: but over time that one degree takes you miles away
Speaker 2: from where you intended to go. The same thing happens
Speaker 2: in your job. You start slightly disengaged, you stop paying
Speaker 2: attention to the details, you stop looking for opportunities, and
Speaker 2: over time you drift into a place where the job
Speaker 2: feels meaningless, not because it is meaningless, but because you
Speaker 2: drifted away from what made it valuable. Now here's where
Speaker 2: this gets powerful. If you correct that one degree, everything
Speaker 2: starts to come back. You start to see the job differently,
Speaker 2: you start to use it differently, you start to extract
Speaker 2: value from it again. And now the same job that
Speaker 2: felt frustrating starts to feel like a training ground. And
Speaker 2: let me give you something tactical. When you walk into
Speaker 2: work next, I want you to ask yourself three questions.
Speaker 2: What is this job teaching me today? Where can I
Speaker 2: solve a problem that no one is addressing? And how
Speaker 2: is this role positioning me for something bigger? Those three
Speaker 2: questions will change how you experience your job because now
Speaker 2: you're not waiting for the job to improve, you are
Speaker 2: actively using it. And that is what leaders do. They
Speaker 2: don't sit back and evaluate their job like a customer.
Speaker 2: They step in and use their job like a tool.
Speaker 2: There is another layer to this that we need to
Speaker 2: talk about, and it is uncomfortable. Some of you are
Speaker 2: waiting for your job to validate you. You want recognition,
Speaker 2: you want appreciation. You want someone to say you are
Speaker 2: doing a great job, and when that doesn't happen, your
Speaker 2: motivation drops. Listen carefully. If your job is your only
Speaker 2: source of validation, you will always feel like something is missing.
Speaker 2: Strong leaders flip that. They bring their own standard into
Speaker 2: the job. They decide how they are going to perform,
Speaker 2: They decide how they're going to show up. They decide
Speaker 2: what their work means. And because of that, the job
Speaker 2: becomes a place where they express their standards, not a
Speaker 2: place where they wait for approval. That shift alone will
Speaker 2: change everything. And now let's go even one step deeper.
Speaker 2: Your job is also a mirror. It reflects your habits,
Speaker 2: It reflects your discipline, it reflects your attitude. If you
Speaker 2: are disengaged, the job will feel worse. If you are sharp,
Speaker 2: focused and intentional, the job will feel different. Same job,
Speaker 2: different experience. That's not theory, that is reality from the
Speaker 2: front lines. I've seen people take the same role in
Speaker 2: the same building under the same conditions, and one person
Speaker 2: thrives while the other struggles. Difference is not the job,
Speaker 2: it's how they are using the job. And this ties
Speaker 2: directly into your long term career because the habits you
Speaker 2: build in your current job do not stay there. They
Speaker 2: follow you. If you are cutting corners now, you will
Speaker 2: cut corners later. If you are disengaged now, you will
Speaker 2: be disengaged later. If you're proactive now, you will be
Speaker 2: proactive later. Your job is not just what you do,
Speaker 2: it is who you are becoming while you are doing it.
Speaker 2: That is why your job is better than you think,
Speaker 2: because it is shaping you in ways you might not
Speaker 2: even realize yet. So here's your challenge for the next
Speaker 2: seven days. Treat your job like a leadership lab. Walk
Speaker 2: in with intention, pay attention to everything, look for patterns,
Speaker 2: solve problems, raise your standard, and watch what happens not
Speaker 2: to the job, to you, because when you change how
Speaker 2: you show up, the job reveals what it has been
Speaker 2: offering you all along. And that is the moment where
Speaker 2: everything shifts. Your job is not the ceiling that you
Speaker 2: think it is. It is the platform you have not
Speaker 2: fully used yet. Start using it, start learning from it,
Speaker 2: start positioning yourself through it. Seven minutes a day of
Speaker 2: intentional focus inside your current role can change your entire
Speaker 2: career path, and it starts the next time you walk
Speaker 2: through the door. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for listening.
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