Self-Motivation: Soundtrack to my Career Part 2 (2009 - 2010)
Prophesize your success: See the bigger picture
This part of this series does skip over a
couple of years but this will be covered on the next.
As this part is pretty important but also a very big foundation building block
on how I've been able to elevate my self-motivation in further.
One of the albums, matter of fact the album to really influence the self-motivation
I have up until this day was the Birdman - Pricele$$ album which dropped in
2009.
Why this album? Well let me paint the picture of how it was for me back in
2009.
Painting the Picture of where I was
I had just turned 21 and at that point in
my career I was doing a lot of big projects and was about seven/eight
certifications in with my MCSE finally completed. In my opinion I was doing
great things especially at that age, salary wise was quite advanced then and
bearing in mind this was just when the recession had started.
Sometimes if you get to a high plateau at a young age you can get very
complacent and not know where to go next thinking you have everything. But
then... I had landed a new role which would allow me to advance to bigger
levels...more travel was involved but it was definitely worth it after
evaluating the opportunity at hand.
Now on my daily commute on the train, I finally got to listen to the new
birdman album. And the every track allowed me to see a bigger picture of
everything I could achieve, made the possibilities limitless and painted a
picture that really could be reality.
Perception & Motivation gained: The Bigger Picture
If you look at even just the front cover of the Album with the Bugatti and the
duffle bag. Now I'm not looking at it thinking that's exactly what I want as
just a vague materialistic gain or that's the mission, but the motivation for
me more displayed a push for not only keeping with the self-motivation I
already have but more to set bigger goals.
Birdman on this album isn't doing any kind of lyrically wizardry, but that's
not what he is trying to be either. This comes across more like a simplistic
story teller of how extravagant the life he was living and how he made it
happen. So when you combine that with the spirit of a young 21 year old who
already felt like he was top of the world, you can see how it made the ambition
a lot bigger for me.
It's a marker of where I was in my life and career, and just like the album
title "priceless" really represented what I was about. Majority of
every role I ever took was never to do with how much the salary was, because I
knew I would benefit regardless as this was a bonus to me, in reference to my
other self-motivation blogs it's more the experience I gain from the roles to
further my career which is the real remuneration.
A lot of people have different motivations and different perceptions and I can
understand a lot of people could see or listen to the same birdman album and
get the impression I want to take shortcuts or by any means to attain a
lifestyle like this and this would never be a way I would view it.
What I saw, heard and envisioned was the bigger picture of what could be
achieved. Staying true to my career path and the choices I made eventually the
financial benefits would be bigger and bigger, but more importantly this is
being obtained by doing something you don't see as work, as a "I have no
other choice role".
How Iprophesizedmy Goals
This is where Iprophesizedof my own career goals were really taking place.
A lot of the things I wanted to get to I made it there so quickly that I didn't
even notice.
I believe the reason why I was able to do this because I never set any goals
necessarily as a hit list, just my thought process backed up with a soundtrack
just allowed me to reach further.
The attitude wasn’t setting goals with the mentality of “this was what I was going to achieve in a certain amount of time” it was more of “this is what is going to happen” as setting of the expectation of this will be completed by the very least of this time frame.
And I sometimes find goals are normally
set by people who know they are either unrealistic or a long time to achieve, that
can be the beauty of it but without the right motivation behind you it makes
them even more out of reach.
Two goals I'll give you I had as an example back then was
• Complete my MCSE before 25
• Perform an Architect Role in 5 years’ time
And both of these I got to before I turned 22. And the secret to doing this was just being focused without trying to actually hit them
The role I had during that time was in my opinion the role which really allowed me to excel technically, and the perfect album had to be in the background to compliment this.
Oddly enough the role I have now has me do the exact same journey, so whenever I need a nostalgic boost this goes straight into the playlist!
Best line I could quote from the album
“so
we ate the same meal till the 100s had a crease”
