It is important to me to be the best and, ultimately, to win. I hate it more than almost anything else in life. As Theodore Roosevelt said, "Comparison is the thief of joy." 2. Your journey is unique and special because it is yours, and the experiences you have will shape and mold you into the person YOU are supposed to be. Spending your energy comparing your accomplishments to someone else’s is, quite literally, like comparing apples to oranges because there is no comparison. If you’re busy comparing your journey with someone else’s, you’ll never have time to create your own. I spent that entire day feeling bad about myself and brainstorming ways to make up for “lost time” when I should have been focusing on absorbing information and tackling my first day. I told myself I would never be able to catch up, that I was behind and had lost too much time. Suddenly, I was watching her mouth move without hearing anything she said after the words “twenty-four.” She was two years older than I was, but light-years ahead of me career-wise. I learned she was only two years older than me and immediately, my head started spinning. I also hoped my colleagues would notice my early arrival and eagerness.Ībout six minutes into the day, all of that preparation and effort was thrown out the window when the vice president of the company came to my desk to introduce herself. I arrived an hour early so I would have time to settle in. I spent the night before rigorously preparing for the day ahead of me. I remember my first day of work at my first "real job" at age 22.
#THE GO GETTERS LADIES HOW TO#
Here are a few common traps into which the go-getter type falls, and how to avoid them: 1. However, the go-getters and Type A personalities are the ones who are driven to succeed at any cost, and there are certainly a few downfalls that come with these mentalities.
I truly believe our generation has the ability and the willingness to change the world, and we are more eager and well-equipped than any generation before us to do so. We are constantly reinventing and improving ourselves. We make lists of our goals, and we steadily cross them off.
We are determined, resilient and focused. We put in the extra hours and we go the extra miles. We are the first ones in the office and the last to leave.
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