Because everything that you will have in the future,
in your career journey depends on decisions you make.
What does it mean to be committed to your career goals?
Have you ever felt that you were committed and
dedicated to achieving your career goals,
certain career milestones that you set out for yourself and you're trying
so hard every day to accomplish those milestones,
to reach those career goals and you're just frustrated with the progress.
You're frustrated that you're not moving forward the way that you want.
You're not moving forward at the pace that you want.
If you noticed today I'm wearing a very special t-shirt,
I'll get to what it means in a minute. But first, let me tell you a story.
When I was in college, you know in the early, in the early two thousands around
there, there was just brain drain into the United States.
I was in college in Vancouver at the time and there were a
lot of reports of a lot of people moving to the United States to get jobs
because that's where the opportunities were.
And I myself,
I was kind of captivated by that idea of going to the United States and I
pictured myself getting my
citizenship and eventually settling into the United States. And I wanted,
and I had my sights set for California. I wanted to go to USCD,
in California and I wanted to go to school there and eventually settle in
California. And so I decided that,
well maybe it might be a good idea to learn Spanish because I thought that
learning Spanish,
and becoming fluent in Spanish would help me with getting citizenship in the US.
So I set out to learn Spanish and obtain some level of fluency there.
And my first Spanish class in university, my professor was from Columbia,
you know, she came from Colombia, she immigrated into Vancouver
and she became a professor teaching her and sharing her knowledge in Spanish and
of the Spanish culture as well.
And one of the stories she told me was a story of Pablo Escobar,
if you know a little bit of Colombian history,
Pablo Escobar was one of the most notorious drug trafficking,
drug lords in Columbia.
And he was born 1946 and he was eventually,
he was killed by gunshot in 1993. But he was really famous
for drug trafficking and also bribery.
So whenever he came across government or law enforcement officials,
he would bribe them and he would say to them, Plata o Plomo.
Which meant it was Spanish for silver or lead.
Right? And so what it means is that he would come across these
government officials who wouldn't want to let him pass,
and then he would bribe them with all the things
that he would have in his truck.
Bribed them with TVs and and jewelry or things like that.
And then he would tell them and it, he would give them a choice.
He would say Plata o Plomo, and every time they would choose Plata,
they would choose silver and they would let him pass.
So how does this relate to your career, right? Your career is,
in every career decision, in every career,
in every career journey that you have, you also have a choice.
When you are truly committed to your career,
when you are truly committed to your
career goals and accomplishing those milestones,
it means that you are not creating excuses for yourself.
It means you're not giving yourself a way out. It means that you are all in.
It means that you have a mindset of an
understanding that every decision you make along your journey is going to lead
to one or the other. It's going to lead to Plata o Plomo. It is going to,
in other words, it's leading to silver or lead.
So Pablo Escobar gave them a choice, Plata or Plomo. In other words,
are you wanting to get silver or a lead bullet, to do or die.
So the same thing is true with your career. When you are committed,
when you were all in, you are having that mindset that there is no other choice.
This is the choice. It is either do plata or plomo.
So if you find yourself not moving forward at the pace that you want,
it's time to reflect on your level of commitment.
How committed are you to your career goals?
And are you giving yourself a way out?
Are there ways, are you creating an environment for yourself,
cultivating a culture, an internal culture where it is Plata o Plomo and
there's no other choice, right? And doing this,
it really gives you that sense of urgency to accomplish that sense of urgency
that you need to succeed. And that's the first thing is your sense of urgency.
Because one of the most, one of the biggest dangers
and roadblocks to accomplishing and achieving your career goals is complacency,
right?
And sometimes complacency disguises itself as many different things like as
fatigue or maybe not feeling like
doing something or not feeling motivated by it.
So sometimes you don't realize it, but complacency can set in.
So if you think to yourself, Plata o Plomo, there's no other choice.
At the end of your journey, at the end of each decision you make in your career,
it is either Plata o Plomo, silver or lead, right?
In other words, the money or a lead bullet, right. Do or die.
It is either one of those. If you give yourself that sense of urgency,
then it will carry you along the way and you'll be able to weather the storm.
One of the biggest blessings in my early life with that,
I didn't have parents who supported me through college.
So after high school I didn't have parents who would give me money for tuition.
They didn't pay for my college, they didn't pay for my cost of living. So at 17,
18 I knew that I was going to be responsible for the rest of my life,
but I wanted to go to college. For me,
that was my definition of success and I didn't know any other way than to
go to school, get a good job, and get paid a good salary.
And so that was a blessing in disguise. Back then it was a headache.
Not having that backup plan,
not having support like that, but in retrospect it was a real,
a real blessing because that's. what gave me the sense of urgency.
That's what gave me the mindset of Plata o Plomo. I wanted freedom in my life.
I wanted independence, I wanted to be successful,
I wanted to have a career with fulfillment and to
me education was the only way there.
And I've found a way to make it work because I had that
sense of urgency because for me it was silver or lead and there was no other
choice. And there are clues to this
wisdom right there in the English language because everything that you will have
in the future, in your career journey depends on decisions you make.
And if you look at the word decide,
to decide in English comes from Latin and it comes from the Latin root de-ci-de
and what it means is to cut off, from the Latin word, de-ci-de-re,
it means to cut off.
So when you are deciding on something,
you are cutting off all other options and there's no other option except
the one that you chose.
So then there's no other choice but to go all in and to be fully committed.
I mean Tony Robbins said it best,
he's known to say that if you want to take the island, you've got to burn the
boats. And that is the definition of going all in.
Because when you go all in and you are truly committed, when it's in your mind,
it's Plata or Plomo and you're going all in,
in means that you're giving yourself that opportunity to gain insights.
When you go all in on something and you decide to go this career trajectory,
to achieve those career goals,
it means you are cutting off all your other choices, but to go forward in this
direction and when you do so, you are giving yourself an opportunity,
your mind to be, to have the experiences
you need to have to build on the insights in that career trajection.
So I talked to a lot of people,
I mean most people when they're in a position, when they're, say they're at a
company,
they have this position and they really want to accelerate their career.
They want to take their career to the next level.
They're always looking for a way out.
They're always keeping their eye out on other opportunities or maybe even
submitting applications once in a
while because they're afraid to fail in that one direction.
So it's kind of like they have their foot,
one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake. And when you do that,
it's not possible to be all in.
It's not possible to be committed if you have your foot on the accelerator and
your foot on the brake at the same time. Right?
So if you're listening to this and you have not yet experienced what it's like
to be fully committed, what is like to have the mindset of Plata o Plomo,
I invite you into this four day training that I've created for you.
Free of charge. Four day training where you can just go through that training,
see if it's right for you, and learn the principles of career acceleration.
So invite you to go to my free training careerrevisionist.com/training
that's careerrevisionist.com/training I'll put the link below.
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Are you all in in terms of getting the success and achievements that you want?
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