Are you results driven?
What really gets you fired up at the beginning of your day? What makes you push the speed limit on the way to the office? Trying out a new idea that came to you when you were cooking out on the patio last night? The idea you tossed and turned in your mind all night that didn't even make you tired this morning? The excitement you feel getting to promote your latest new hire on her most recent project performance?
If it's implementing action that physically propels your business forward, adds dollars to the bottom line, walks out the forecast to sunny, sunny, sunny, then, you are results driven.
Significance is something of importance, something of notable worth. Something that already exists, like the last procedure put in place that the business is riding on now. The employee who is already promoted into a position based on past performance. Some people create a feeling of their own significance with distorted management styles because they don't have the highs from constantly performing positive change. These staff are stakes to hold pieces in place to support current foundation, but they are not the leaders in your company. They move laterally, not upward. Significance seekers are not results driven. They are the ones who constantly talk about the past.
Driving results is present, ever-changing, progressive. It never stands still to look at its reflection in the mirror because it knows that when it does, it is missing something that's going on in that lag time. Lol. People who are results driven look for opportunity for change every minute of every day. They're static. Not constant. And if you aren't one, a results driven person will wear you out very quickly.
Results driven people don't get tired. They may move quickly, but don't rush. They have multiple projects going on at the same time, but aren't really all that stressed out, because they know instead of a first place ribbon around the corner, there is a trifecta.
And they really know how to celebrate. They pass out promotions and raises like candy. Because they can afford to.
People with significance don't stay significant very long when they are surrounded by results-driven people. People who seek significance have one goal in mind. To accomplish something in their career and then ride on the coat tails of that accomplishment for the rest of their career. People who are results driven are like sharks on a feeding frenzy. Lol. Always on the prowl for the next meal. They don't care what their title is as long as they get to accomplish on a regular basis.
Results driven people are addicted to accomplishing, not accomplishment. Once something is accomplished, it's old news to them. Dead in the water.
Figureheads may have significance, but unless they are constantly propelling forward change, they are not results driven. They may have a lot of people who work for them who are results driven, but if they are not catalysts for change, they are only of significance. In the early days of my career, I heard someone call me a stuffed shirt. It was a defining moment in my life. Because I thought I was results driven. So I became results driven.
People who don't understand what it means to be results driven, think of results driven people as busy bodies and some other choice names like pains in the butt. Lmao. To each his or her own, I say. It is the results driven people who keep us in business.
You can't move forward when you're standing still.
Results driven people can always find a significance seeker willing to temporarily stand down and hold the position while change formulates forward, then regroup. Significance seekers stand down most of the time. They propel too slowly, if at all after their initial success. Competition has already milked the idea they are putting into practice next. And the results seekers around them will in some size, shape, or form, leave them in the dust.
Do you want to be significant, or results driven? The only constant in life for sure, is change. You're either the temporary stake holder, or a catalyst. If you're not getting to where you want to be, maybe you are a stake holder who thinks he or she is a catalyst. lmao. And if you are already a catalyst, rock on. The significance seekers are waiting in line for their next stake out.
But then, you're significant, if you are results driven? Nope. You can not be both at the same time. You can not be static and constant simultaneously. That's just bad physics.