RealTalkAJ

The expectations of a professional in their career are to maintain high standards of competence, reliability, and ethical conduct.

Maintaining a high standard professionally

Consistently developing your competence, impacts the level of trust, others place in you professionally because you are prioritizing personal development.

You are self-driven at this point. Everything that you’re doing is at your personal interest.

That’s inherited by the team that you’re working to grow with.

And if you care about what others seem to as well, they embrace you with more enthusiasm and ultimately trust in this scenario.

Reliability shows through meeting deadlines, honoring commitments, following through, and doing what you say you’re going to.

It shapes your long-term reputation more than just talent alone because it’s what you’re known for at this point.

It’s your identity in many ways. And that’s actually all things that can be taught to do.

You don’t naturally have these qualities and characteristics despite what others may argue.
They have to be learned and taught.

Especially as we observe where human nature is leaning towards more of an easy path of less resistance.

How I see it is to where there’s a work ethic grit that seems to fade away. And that’s mainly just through my observation.

As limited as it may be, that’s what I see.

But you end up having this be a defining principle that makes yourself or whatever brand you represent be known for that.

That’s going to be the new expectation for anyone that decides to do business with you.

Just being reliable and showing up on time (or at all, in that case), is something that most coaches would work with and would actually prefer in an athlete if we’re paralleling with sports.

It’s the same with a business coach or anyone else that’s choosing to teach you the ropes of whatever career that you’re deciding to learn.

They will always tell you that they would rather work with the person who is willing to get better rather than the person that walks in already feeling as if they are the best.

Your ethical conduct guides your decisions when shortcuts (or even gray areas) offer quicker results because it’s a core foundation as to who you are internally.

There’s some things that can’t be bought, for lack of better terms in a person.

And when you have this, this also aligns with what your integrity is as well.

There’s things that you just believe on a spiritual level, is the correct way to go about doing some things.

So, it’s the same way, as the familiar saying goes, “if it’s too good to be true, chances are it is.”

That gets applied when you have ethics as well too.

Especially when you have other opportunities that seem super easy to do where the exchange doesn’t even seem equal, but you’re gonna profit greatly.

There’s systems and habits that you can put in place to make sure that your performance is consistent, even if your motivation starts to get a little unpredictable.

What I like to do is turn my points of emphasis into checklists.

These are black and white expectations I have for myself that I just absolutely have to follow.

And it can still be fun because the actions themselves might be something that you’re looking forward to doing.

But you have to follow your set of rules when it comes to this by making sure that whatever that task is gets completed.

And it won’t matter how you’re feeling because you understand that this is your non-negotiable.

You absolutely have to do this no matter what.
And it might even seem silly when you 1st make it, but, it becomes part of your routine.

When no one’s watching, my standards of integrity and preparation reflect the true level of professionalism through the quality of what I do.

I will make it abundantly clear that I am thorough in the things that I am best at. That’s through a genuine interest in the things that I choose to do.

I don’t take for granted, being able to move freely among the choices that I get to pick.

There’s too many people that go through having to do things in life that they don’t want to.

And whenever I get an opportunity to have a choice that I feel good about, I will submerge myself into that opportunity for as long as possible.

Stay in that place of gratitude and appreciation for the things that I’m able to be flexible in and create.

But that’s more internal. And that’s how it feels when nobody’s watching when I can operate freely in truth.