Life Lessons in in Complacency Killing Your Career
If you feel a little disengaged, a little disconnected, if things are taking you longer than they usually take at work, or if you just feel bored and uninspired, this is a sign that you're approaching a career killer, and it's called complacency. And the truth is, you don't have to go above and beyond at work to do meaningful work. Work that's inspiring to do. Impactful work. But you absolutely cannot be complacent in your work because complacency is a career killer, and it'll have you feeling disengaged, disconnected, and honestly bored and uninspired at work.
And so, I'm excited to talk to you about some signs of complacency, the danger of complacency, and a way to get out of complacency in your career so that you can reengage and reconnect and do meaningful work in your career and in your industry.
I'm excited to talk to you about how to avoid complacency and actually find and elevate passion, connection, and impact in your career. I founded Mentor Me a little over three years ago, and I have served hundreds of women, helping them earn more than $1,000,000 in salary increases, raises, and promotions. I am committed to helping high-achieving women really advance their careers in the ways they desire. And I'm excited to talk to you about how to avoid and eliminate complacency in your career so that you can do the kind of work that you desire
I first want to talk about signs of complacency because I think that, sometimes, there's a difference between complacency and contentment. So let's talk about the difference.
The primary side of complacency is disengagement. You know that you're complacent at work. You know that you're not committed to the work but that you're not inspired by the work anymore. If you start to feel complacent in your career. If you're starting to feel disconnected, it's really important to have a strategy for re-engagement because complacency kills.
Complacency can ruin your career flat out.
The danger of being complacent in your career is that other people notice, and you don't think anybody's noticing. You think that you're in the shadows. You think you're coasting.
But the truth is that people are paying more attention to you than you recognize your boss, supervisor, colleagues, customers, clients, and students. Whatever industry you're in, people are paying attention, and whether you recognize it or not, your reputation is absolutely on the line. And when you start to fall into complacency, it can ruin your career.
One of the strategies to implement to interrupt complacency in your career is investing in yourself through professional development because professional development reinvigorates you and holds you accountable. Professional development teaches you new things, new strategies, new connection points, and new approaches to your work. And that's what my job is as a mentor is! To teach you how to reengage, reinvest, and reconnect in your career. So that complacency doesn't ruin your career.
The danger of complacency is that other people can see it. You're not having any impact on the clients, the customers, the students, the community you always plan to impact in your career, the real meaningful work you always plan to do. You're not able to do that in any real way anymore because you have gotten complacent, disconnected, and distracted in your career.
Everything's taking you longer to do. You don't really care about the work anymore. You don't care about the client. You don't care about the consumer. You're kind of phoning it in on the back end, and that complacency is noticeable in your career. It impacts your reputation, how people see you, and how people think about you in your work.
It can impact your reputation and your ability to earn more money over the course of your career, and you start getting mediocre, you start being in the B-plus category. B pluses will not get you the raise or the salary increases you desire over the course of your career. And anybody that knows anything about money knows that money compounds.
I really want to help you advance your career in a way that's going to be long-standing. And so if that's the kind of mentorship that you would benefit from if that's the kind of mentorship that you know you need at this stage in your career. If you're looking for a mentor who can help you sort out what your values are and then help develop a career strategy that's aligned with those values, then I'm the mentor for you.
I'm now accepting new mentees, and I invite you to apply to the Mentor Me Accelerator.
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