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GET OVER YOURSELF AND GET AHEAD

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GET OVER YOURSELF AND GET AHEAD!

TIP: That sense of self-importance in business –OR– life in general, will never get you a seat at the head table.

If you want to get ahead and make people want to propel you, here’s the secret.  Sometimes, you just have to get over yourself.   It’s not always about you.  That’s the mistake that breeds interpersonal relationship problems and insecurity, not to mention, it will constantly keep you looking over your shoulder for the next fabricated infraction.

TIP:   Be instrumental in helping someone excel or,help someone get back into the game.  It’s a great feeling and, a team player, whether in your own family or, in your business, IS noticed. 

Most people have many responsibilities in their life, i.e., children, parents, elderly or sick relatives; the list goes on and on.  However, as difficult as this new concept is to process,(especially in an economy when most people are working very hard just to keep their heads above water and, the heads of their family members as well), there really are people out there who have been given gratis for most of their adult lives.   This type of person continues to expect the same special treatment in the workforce while attempting to judge unkindly those less fortunate. Needless to say, that attitude does not translate well in the business world or, for the matter, any where else.

Don’t be so consumed with yourself that you forget to be a team player. Try giving some encouragement to someone not as fortunate at the moment or, someone who is also trying to get ahead.   Have some compassion, lend a helping hand, maybe lend and ear… Be a mentor. 

TIP: In business and in life, everyone is not going to understand, agree with, or even like, all of your concepts, ideas, and choices.  Why? Because they don’t have to!  That’s correct.  EVERYONE will not applaud you all of the time.

Be prepared to accept applause graciously but, conversely, be just as prepared to accept constructive criticism just as gracefully. Don’t be so quick to judge someone else’s back story.  You may think someone is making a big deal out of something you have decided is as simple as a shattered or broken glass.  You have to believe there may be reasons you don’t need to understand.  Everything is not worth the fight.  Pick and choose your words wisely from an understanding point of view and not a superior or dismissive one.

There you have it in a nutshell…… The get over yourself trick.

We are all cogs in rather large wheels (be it family, friends, or co-workers and, most times, all of the above).  Once you start believing you are the “wheel” then, that’s the time to take inventory.

If you have estranged yourself from family, friends, and co-workers, by making excuses to yourself about how unfair and mean spirited people are to you because, they don’t always agree with you or your choices…….WELL maybe, JUST maybe,  you have become your own problem.

TIP………………GET OVER IT AND GET AHEAD!

A TRUE ROCK STAR

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A TRUE ROCK STAR

AKA

THE REAL DEAL

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Everyone needs a reason to wake up in the morning.  Everyone needs to be a productive member of society.    NOT a POSER….THE REAL DEAL.   Not a person who will try anything to be trendy but succeed at nothing because they walk away or quit when the going gets tough, or when it begins to feel like a real job with real responsibility.

We all know the type.  The person who believes hard work is for the other guy and they are “gifted” because they have found someone who will continue to blow that blue smoke for them and endlessly enable that figment of their own imagination.

Not everyone can or will be a rock star, musician, movie star, talk show host or become a member of any of the so called “glamour jobs”.

By no means is Emergency Management a “glamour job”.   Emergency Management is hard work.  However, any adult with a sense of responsibility wants a profession, and of course, a paycheck.  It’s the American way.

Emergency Management will never be considered a so called “glamour job”. There is no applause, and no canned laughter…..IT’S THE REAL DEAL.   Emergency Management is a serious profession, a difficult profession, and one to be very, very, proud of.

You’ve paid your dues because this job comes with blood, sweat and tears.

You are a true ROCK STAR……Rock on Emergency Managers….

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

You’ve earned the real applause!

EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SHARE !

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EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SHARE

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SOAR AND SET NEW BENCHMARKS……..Everyone has something to share.  Each of us has a wealth of resources at our disposal to call upon to enlist and pass along to others.

You see it every day on  social media, that digital interconnection…a new frontier. That virtual environment altering the dynamics of every one of our “personal”, and not so “personal” interactions.

As Emergency Managers and leaders, we should be duty-bound  to enable our staff,  and promote opportunity for growth and development.  Platforms of knowledge and cross-training experiences create far-reaching partnerships enabling a multitude of career opportunities by motivating others.  By sharing ideas, knowledge, and talents, the formula and prerequisite for success  becomes carved in our mission statement…. a pursuit of our common goals.

A transcendent approach, one that goes above and beyond  any universal definition of your job performance requirements, is needed to succeed.  Break out of your comfort zone, that safety niche and share your thoughts, progress, and skills– become a teacher, student and mentor.

Don’t conform to a norm… rather… SOAR AND  SET NEW BENCHMARKS !

In any career choice, including Emergency Management, there will always be a series of competing perspectives. Don’t run and hide from them , rather, embrace them.  Share what you know and be openly receptive to what you don’t know.  Try looking at new concepts, with different optics.  Step back and see things from other’s perspective— a different, but very unique vantage point.  Weed out all limitations and make your primary focus  not so internally tunneled that you close the door on a new approach.   Innovation is the magic that creates successful leaders and mentors for future missions, and a standard for never ending possibilities.  Focus your efforts, foster new and exciting partnerships and share your knowledge, ideas, and experiential learning.

Don’t conform to the norm…the sky is the limit. SOAR !!

CHARACTER IS EVERYTHING !

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Character is Everything !

Joanne Hull | April 9, 2014

Isn’t it interesting just how much you can tell about a person working on a disaster in a matter of seconds ?  If someone is not moved by the emotional events surrounding their arrival and they can break it down to the lowest financial denominator to leverage value to their own wallet and length of their own personal timeline, that tells you everything you need to know about their character.  What more is there to say?

Maybe this……….”You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”    Coach John Wooden-UCLA, Aka- Wizard of Westwood.

 

One Single Step !

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ONE SINGLE STEP

Joanne Hull | February 12, 2014

Wasn’t it Lao Tsu that said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step”?

Well, I made my first post.  In case you missed it, it’s called “Welcome to My World—Pass the Aspirin”.

I guess that was my first step.  It took almost eighteen years and a journey of many thousands of miles before I put pen to paper.

I wonder, “Does slow and steady still win the race”?

It was very interesting, if not a bit strange, how that first step came about.

One evening, I started thinking about all of the places that I’ve been and, all the dedicated Emergency Workers and First Responders that I have had the pleasure of working with.  I thought about all of the people in all of the states and all of the communities.  People that have been so devastated by Mother Nature or some other catastrophic event but still managed somehow to open up their hearts and go out of the way to make you feel so very welcome while you’re away from home.

Then, I thought about another saying, it goes something like this…..Find a job that you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life!