Raise Your Bar

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Holding a high bar is a controversial perspective in much of today’s world. 

Is it exclusionary? You bet it is. 

Not everyone will meet that bar, and that’s okay - not everyone was meant to be with you personally or work for you professionally. People fitting and moving together lock & key is how things fly forward, and how you find speed, momentum, the right fit, and even the right kind of challenge….you want to be pushed too, right?

Without setting a bar, you will be strapped with frustration - always staying smaller than you are capable of - and life will often have more agitation.

Your relationships will be more frustrating because you aren’t getting treated in ways you (deep down) want, deserve, and expect….and your work will be more frustrating because the people who surround you will not operate at a caliber that can keep up with the level of your ambition and growth. 

A problem that sometimes plagues ambitious people in their work is to expect others to naturally hold to the same standard of operation that they do. However, this is rarely the case. Because of that, hard decisions will need to be made.

Hard decisions, hard conversations, and high expectations…they all move together as a group, at least at first. It gets easier, people learn, and once systems and expectations are clearly in place - there is a lot of forward motion that makes everyone happy.

This edition is on raising your bar to what you *really* want, holding it, and finally getting the juice out of the good stuff…whether that’s at work or in your personal life.