Think As Inc

PUT YOUR PRODUCT OUT THERE

October 8, 2009 on 9:03 pm | In life coaching | No Comments

Is there resistance to thinking very specifically about what you offer?  Are you wary of checking your salary — how much you might be valued in the open market?  If you feel underpaid and undervalued, it might be more comfortable to blame your industry (no one values teachers) or your situation (I can’t leave my job because I have a family to support).  It may be difficult to imagine different possibilities or to act on these ideas.

However, not exploring your potential outside of your current job is like a business not exploring all of its product line.  You are not just your job.  Your job is only one representation of your product line.  Your product line is all of your skills (professional and personal), your ideas, your experience.  Some of these may not be utilized in the job you have currently.  Your full product line is what you have to offer to the world.  In this way, your product line is a reflection of yourself.

Not recognizing your full range of products or not offering all that you have is not living up to your potential.  It is not living fully.  There is limited impact in building a better mouse trap if it only stays in your home.  Get involved.  Use all of your gifts.  Put your product out there. 

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death." - Jean Anouilh, French playwright