Ep. 45: Secrets of $100K Pay Raises

 Ep. 45: Secrets of $100K Pay RaisesLindsay  00:00I'm Lindsay Mustain and this is the career design podcast made for driven ambitious square pegs and round holes type professionals who see things differently and challenge the status quo. We obliterate obstacles and unlock hidden pathways to overcome and succeed where others have not stagnation feels like death, and we are unwilling to compromise our integrity and settle for being average in any way. We are the backbone of any successful business and those who overlook our potential are doomed to a slow demise. We do work that truly matters aligns with our purpose and in turn, we make our lasting mark on the world. We are the dreamers, doers, legends and visionaries who are called to make our most meaningful contribution and love what we do.  Lindsay  00:43Yesterday, as I'm recording this, I just wrapped up corporate cash machine masterclass. And it was epic and incredible. And there were so many takeaways, I mean, massive transformation, if you want to check out the next day, go to corporate cash machine dot com. But today I want to talk to you about the traits of a high performer. Now, why this is important is that let me be really clear, there's a lot of people in the world. And I'm going to tell you that the economy is banked mostly, and on the backs of what we call sheeple and there's no disrespect for the sheeple but sheeple are part of the collective consciousness mass programming. And what I mean by that is that they've been programmed to believe that if you work hard, go to school that all doors will magically open, and then reality, they'll continue to perpetuate that belief in the things that they do, including getting multiple degrees, going back and working really hard and still getting stuck in their career until they finally reached the point of disillusionment, the enchantment breaks from the spell they've been under, which is conditioning and programming that's happened literally since birth. And they realize that the system is broken. Now, sheeple at whatever point of their awakening, which by the way, I was also a sheeple at one point, the programming I was given was the same right, education by dad, you know, he's right there, he would say education is something that you can never be can never be taken away from you. My argument to that is that while that's an important skill, and I believe that, like, I want my kids to go to college for the experience, not for the education, actually. But because I think we can all agree, you know that your school doesn't do a really good job of preparing you for real life. I mean, how did you learn how to balance your checkbook, any of the key skills like to maybe running a business, anything that would be really important?  Actually, in real life there's a lot of deficient things, and I haven't really had to do too much, you know, calculus inside of my day to day life, but that was a requirement. So when I asked you like to think about this, the point of the solution will break. And that happened for me, you know, really late. If I'm really honest, really late, when I realized, wow, something is really wrong, something is really wrong. Like I've been told all these things. And I was told to stay in my lane, stay small, like be quiet, all the things to design who I really was at my core. So I want to talk to you about the pains of being a high performer, the traits of that, and what that really like what the kind of people I work with, which are all high performers, by the way, who have had their light diminished, okay. And now they might have been a high performer all their life, and they bought into that collective consciousness belief, or they've actually finally broken free from that. And now they're starting to recognize just how powerful breaking the system and exiting the sheeple exiting the collective consciousness and creating your own rulebook that's we're gonna talk about today. So how do you know if you are a high performer? Okay, so I want to give a shout out to my high performers because first off, you've probably been told that you're kind of a pain in the ass, that you just don't go with the flow that you may not be a team player. And in general, I tend to say I work with misfits. Congratulations, last time I said to somebody, they said, Wow, that kinda reminds me of like, Rudolph. And I was like, Do you remember Rudolph? Rudolph saved the fucking day people. Okay, so they made fun of him. And then he ended up saving the day. And that's the trait of a high performer. Now, in corporate America, being a high performer, and being a misfit, they don't usually actually create results for most people. Which is why like, first thing I need to dispel for you is not every job or every company out there is going to be good for you. In fact, 99% of what you see out there is not going to be good for your professional career and development. Okay, so how do we start to find these things? ...