We have opportunities to push ourselves all the time in life. What do you do with those opportunities? Do you grab them and go for it or hang back and wait for something easier? Dana comes clean on her lifelong patterns and steps up to new ways to Do Hard, which is one of the strategies she gives you in her new eBook on going higher, faster! – InPower Editors
“Do Hard.”
This was the answer a woman who sat on several large company corporate boards gave when she was asked how to get noticed for board seats. “Do hard.”
Those words really stuck with me because as she talked about what it meant to “do hard” in her corporate environment, such as taking overseas assignments and asking her husband to leave his job, I realized that in my corporate life I’d chosen many times not to “do hard.” I’d chosen not to build up skills I didn’t enjoy in favor of those I did. I’d chosen not build relationships that would have forced me to travel more when my kids were little. And every one of these had been a choice.
I actually thought that by getting out in entrepreneur-land I was “Doing Easy.”
I was so wrong. Simply surviving as an entrepreneur is hard work and constantly puts me in my discomfort zone. I’ve learned to set aside fear of rejection, disapproval, failure and so much more out on my own. It’s like running a constant obstacle path to learn to set aside fear, doubt and a bunch of other stuff in my way.
Here’s what I’ve learned about Doing Hard. It doesn’t matter whether you travel or don’t travel, become a specialist or a generalist, or work for yourself or someone else… if you’re in your stretch zone, you’re Doing Hard and your career and life will benefit.
What hard thing are you doing today?
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