Double Your Salary – Get in the Game!

Double Your Salary

Jun 6

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My son Mike V., now 26, is a very talented soccer player. He was a first string starter on his High School Varsity Soccer Team and ultimately was recruited by three Division 3 colleges.

I attended every high school game that I could. And loved every minute of it.

Sometimes when he was on the bench and the coach put Mike in the game, he walked or jogged on to the pitch (soccer field) and it took him one or two plays to ‘get into the game’ mentally.

Once or twice, the opposing team had a breakaway and scored a goal. Ouch!

Maybe Mike V. could have blocked the other team and saved the day.

We talked about it but we couldn’t figure it out.

Look, I’m not a psychologist by any stretch of the imagination. But I do have a keen understanding of people.

To win, you have to ‘Get in the Game!’

In other words, Mike, you and I have to get our head in the game!

Doubling your salary is based on your ability to generate extreme value to your supervisor, boss and company.

Turning back to soccer or any other sport for that matter, needless to say, at the end of the game when the final buzzer goes off, one team wins and the other team loses.

In other words, scoring a goal after the clock runs out won’t help you win the game.

To win the game, you have to score as many goals as possible during the game while the clock is still running.

And I live this because I make a decent percentage of my living as a sales professional. Selling is competitive. If the competing vendor outplays me and the prospect selects the other vendor, my company doesn’t win the sale – they Lose. I don’t get a sales commission. When the prospect selects a vendor, the buzzer goes off. Game Over!

Of course, this is a metaphor for the workday.

You have to complete as many projects as you can before the buzzer goes off – quitting time.

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Turning to you and doubling your salary. . .

When you go to work, how long does it take you to get your head and heart into the game?
Do you dawdle?
How long do you spend chit-chatting with colleagues?
Do you take some time to get ready to start your workday?
Do you go to the cafeteria to buy your morning coffee or the pantry to make your morning coffee before planting yourself in your desk chair?
How proactive and aggressive are you about getting your assigned tasks done?
Do you ask your supervisor if you could perform extra tasks and handle extra projects?
Do you go to the office instead of working remotely (remote working)? We’re finding that when team members work onsite, they are more productive, have the opportunity to attend more face-to-face meetings (F2F) and learn more. They are much more likely to absorb the organization’s culture and are in a better position to advance, get promoted and double their salary.

Could you amp up your velocity (speed) by five or ten miles an hour?

Follow these 7 ways to get in the game, double your productivity, triple your productivity, create more value at work and double your salary:

Arrive 15-30 minutes before the workday starts. If your workday starts at 9:00, what time do you arrive at the office? Do you arrive at 8:30? Sometimes, I wake up at 5:30 am, just because. Depending on the day, I sit down at my desk and start sending emails and reviewing documents. This way, I get a head start on the workday.
Do you leave your house allowing extra time for traffic? More and more, I’m finding that traffic jams pop up on my route. I take two local roads from my house to my office. One time drain is the elementary school. Another is the inevitable Amazon truck parked in the middle of the lane.
Keep a running To Do List of all your tasks. Update your To Do List before you leave the office tonight. In other words, prepare Your To Do List the night before. This way, you have a defined list, a set of tasks to jumpstart your workday the next day. Then, you have to select which task to start working on first, second, third – the order of operations. This eliminates the need to figure out which tasks to tackle when you arrive at the office.
Before you leave the office ‘tonight’, organize or reorganize your To Do List for tomorrow so tomorrow morning you can hit the ground running. Review your To Do List tonight, which puts the tasks and projects into your subconscious; hopefully new ideas occur to you along your way.
Before you leave the office ‘tonight’, email people who you’re working with so they can continue advancing the project. By sending out the email with the next steps in a project, you’re adding the task to their workday and they can work on their piece while you sleep or work on something else. I worked for one consulting firm that had a division in India, which was typically 9½ hours ahead of New York. We sent emails to the India Team at 5:00 PM NY time on Monday so our colleagues could start working on the project when they arrived at the office on their Tuesday morning. We took advantage of the different in time zones. Most of the time, they were able to send the project back to us before 9:00 AM on our Tuesday, and so on. This practice significantly increased our productivity and increased our output.
At the end of the workday today, review your calendar or appointment book for tomorrow. This will help you organize your day tomorrow. And analyze and prioritize your tasks vs. the open blocks of time in your calendar that day.
Keep a notepad and pen on your night table to capture your ideas. This way, when you have a flash of brilliance at 2:00 am, you can jot it down. In the morning, add the task to your To Do List. And get it done!

These steps help you ‘Get in the Game’ before it starts. And increase the likelihood you’ll substantially increase your productivity and v substantially increase alue to your company. Which paves the way for you to double your salary.

Get in the Game NOW.

Bring Your A Game to Work Every Day!

Position yourself to WIN!

Today, tomorrow, the day after and so on!

See you next week.

Arthur V.

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