Ep. 45: Secrets of $100K Pay Raises

Career Design Podcast

Ep. 45: Secrets of $100K Pay Raises

Lindsay 00:00

I'm Lindsay Mustain and this is the career design podcast made for driven ambitious square pegs and round holes type professionals who see things differently and challenge the status quo. We obliterate obstacles and unlock hidden pathways to overcome and succeed where others have not stagnation feels like death, and we are unwilling to compromise our integrity and settle for being average in any way. We are the backbone of any successful business and those who overlook our potential are doomed to a slow demise. We do work that truly matters aligns with our purpose and in turn, we make our lasting mark on the world. We are the dreamers, doers, legends and visionaries who are called to make our most meaningful contribution and love what we do.

Lindsay 00:43

Yesterday, as I'm recording this, I just wrapped up corporate cash machine masterclass. And it was epic and incredible. And there were so many takeaways, I mean, massive transformation, if you want to check out the next day, go to corporate cash machine dot com. But today I want to talk to you about the traits of a high performer. Now, why this is important is that let me be really clear, there's a lot of people in the world. And I'm going to tell you that the economy is banked mostly, and on the backs of what we call sheeple and there's no disrespect for the sheeple but sheeple are part of the collective consciousness mass programming. And what I mean by that is that they've been programmed to believe that if you work hard, go to school that all doors will magically open, and then reality, they'll continue to perpetuate that belief in the things that they do, including getting multiple degrees, going back and working really hard and still getting stuck in their career until they finally reached the point of disillusionment, the enchantment breaks from the spell they've been under, which is conditioning and programming that's happened literally since birth. And they realize that the system is broken. Now, sheeple at whatever point of their awakening, which by the way, I was also a sheeple at one point, the programming I was given was the same right, education by dad, you know, he's right there, he would say education is something that you can never be can never be taken away from you. My argument to that is that while that's an important skill, and I believe that, like, I want my kids to go to college for the experience, not for the education, actually. But because I think we can all agree, you know that your school doesn't do a really good job of preparing you for real life. I mean, how did you learn how to balance your checkbook, any of the key skills like to maybe running a business, anything that would be really important? Actually, in real life there's a lot of deficient things, and I haven't really had to do too much, you know, calculus inside of my day to day life, but that was a requirement. So when I asked you like to think about this, the point of the solution will break. And that happened for me, you know, really late. If I'm really honest, really late, when I realized, wow, something is really wrong, something is really wrong. Like I've been told all these things. And I was told to stay in my lane, stay small, like be quiet, all the things to design who I really was at my core. So I want to talk to you about the pains of being a high performer, the traits of that, and what that really like what the kind of people I work with, which are all high performers, by the way, who have had their light diminished, okay. And now they might have been a high performer all their life, and they bought into that collective consciousness belief, or they've actually finally broken free from that. And now they're starting to recognize just how powerful breaking the system and exiting the sheeple exiting the collective consciousness and creating your own rulebook that's we're gonna talk about today. So how do you know if you are a high performer? Okay, so I want to give a shout out to my high performers because first off, you've probably been told that you're kind of a pain in the ass, that you just don't go with the flow that you may not be a team player. And in general, I tend to say I work with misfits. Congratulations, last time I said to somebody, they said, Wow, that kinda reminds me of like, Rudolph. And I was like, Do you remember Rudolph? Rudolph saved the fucking day people. Okay, so they made fun of him. And then he ended up saving the day. And that's the trait of a high performer. Now, in corporate America, being a high performer, and being a misfit, they don't usually actually create results for most people. Which is why like, first thing I need to dispel for you is not every job or every company out there is going to be good for you. In fact, 99% of what you see out there is not going to be good for your professional career and development. Okay, so how do we start to find these things? Well, first off, I would say subscribe to this podcast, because I'm going to walk you through this pathway. But I want you to first feel you're not alone here. Okay? So here's the traits of a high performer. The first thing is that they are relentless, okay, they understand that they have something to achieve. They're not really happy sitting on their couch, you probably have this friend that's just happy to, you know, play their Xbox or whatever it is that they play, and never do anything that's really substantial in the world. And for me, that feels like death. So they're relentless in pursuing betterment of some kind. Okay, so they might be like super gung ho into, I don't know, cross country skiing, whatever. I used to love aerial yoga. I still love early yoga. Really, honestly, I have one here in my house, an aerial swing, whatever it is, they're relentless in their pursuit and they will continue to be that high achiever. The second thing about them is that they're goal oriented. Okay? And what I mean by their goal oriented is I actually have something okay. And not just like, like, I would really like to start a business one day, but they're like by this point, I would like to start a business. They have written down goals. By the way, guys, if you're tuning in, you're like, I have a high performer way. I don't have written down goals. Seriously, take the next notch. Just write it down. Okay. And one of my favorite books lets you talk about the energy of money. And creating wealth in your life starts with setting goals. And let me tell you, that book is called Happy pocket full of money. Definitely one of my favorites to check out there, but goal oriented and I'll tell you a quick study here, in this 20 year review of a an Ivy League class that was graduating and they asked which of the students actually had written down goals, you would expect it to Ivy League school, there'd be a pretty significant percentage, but it was only 3% people 3%. So if you have a 3% rate of setting goals, what did that look like 20 years later? Well, that 3% rheir wealth was actually more than the whole 97 of the 97% that didn't have any combined, combined. Okay, so 3%. Now, this is something that you should see modeled in all of like, when we talk about the 1%, we can rebel against the 1% or we can say, how do we get into that? Okay, so let me be really clear here. You being a misfit is what creates that 1% Okay, nobody told Elon Musk, like, Hey, you're totally normal. They said, You're a crazy weirdo. You think that you can go to the moon, you think you can go to Mars, whatever it is, the guy is putting it into a to action. He's the first one to reach Tesla's market share, like, Are you kidding me? Be crazy. Okay, to the crazy ones. This job's Steve Jobs would say next is that they validate assumptions. Okay. Now I have a lot of intuition. I have a lot of feelings about a lot of things. But I don't make assumptions on what works or doesn't until I prove it. Now I come from a state called Missouri problem, I go with it. But we have a saying that says show me that's our state say our motto, show me. So when people are like, Well, I think this is the issue. I was like, show me or people are like, Well, I heard this question. I'm like, show me Tell me what kind of proof that person has tell me what kind of proof of concept tell me what kind of data and statistics now I use my intuition to guide what I want to prove. And then I go and validate with science which is why you find like why we literally manufacture results. It is a lean process from beginning to end and what gives you the shortcut and the fastest time possible on average right now guys, the last 60 days $100,000 increases. It's actually more than that, but it's hard for you guys to believe that first ones I'm gonna say $100,000 increases on average the last 60 days published on market enter how do we manufacture that keep printing out graduates? Well, guess what? We validated our framework and we have proof of concept and we continue to get better and we were fine. And we go even more if there's more more cool shit coming please. If you have not checked out the masterclass go to corporate cash machine dot com you will have massive reprogramming of some of the stuff that's held you back. Okay, so that's my, my next thing. Okay, so validate the assumption. And in that class, in particular, I destroy, destroy the stuff that is holding you back. And what we did is we surveyed over 500 people to get the answers. How about that? And I'll tell you what's actually holding you back, which I'm going to be really short here. It's you that's typically holding you back. So but how we break that down and what the things that you think are holding you back and what they really are we break that down the masterclass. So if you haven't a chance to register for that, or see when the next event is coming up, please do it will be literally people are saying you are changing future legacies with this trading. So in fact, yesterday, one more side detour that I'll get back into this 181% increase 181% increase from one year ago today. How do we do that? People? It is not magic. It's called intentional career design. Okay, corporate cash machine.com. Okay, next is they prioritize their goals. Another trait of a high performer is now really early like in my like, as a mom, I put everyone before me and even as like a daughter, I tried to put everyone before me. So this I want you but this mantra here is oxygen mask first, the only way that you can take care of like the people in your life that you love. And I don't care if your family is by blood, or by birth, or their four legged or yesterday even said eight legged you might have an octopus at home. I don't know. I don't care what that family is until you take care of you. They're not getting anything but the leftovers. Okay, so like you have nothing to give if you give your work first. So let me be really clear here you prioritize your goals and your achievements. Most of us are actually the enemy of true wealth and freedom is not that you don't have the tools. It's that you're in a cycle of delay. You don't prioritize it. Procrastination has been your answered I'm sorry for calling you out of this, but me too. Okay. Like I'm telling you stuff that I need to learn. Like, there's a reason why. I'm like, wow, you know, like, things are getting a little tight. I have procrastinated and doing meal planning, okay, so let me be really clear. I own my own. So own your shit. Go ahead and say yes, I'm procrastinating and then do something about it. Okay, if you want a different result, change the input. Seriously, we know this, okay? Next is they have a track record of long term success, it does not matter how many times they've been knocked down, okay, and we have all been knocked down, we have all been like literally torn to pieces, that 100% is the case with every person that I work with. And here's the deal is that even if that's a whisper, and it may come at the end of that day, or maybe the end of that week, they say, I will never give up, I will not I will try again. And it might be a whisper, because they're so broken, but the people come to me, and they are truly very broken. And they still know there's more for them. So the long term achievement, they've seen that in the darkest moments have been my greatest success. If you can look back and look at the gifts of your struggles and see them as a way of you being a victor versus a victim. It's a much more powerful mindset frame, okay. The other thing that they have is that they are never satisfied. And what that means is not like, oh, like, like, you can eat me, I'll be satisfied, but you'll still be hungry later. Okay, so I want to be really clear that satisfied doesn't mean not being grateful. I'm incredibly grateful for blessings in my life, I am so very fortunate and abundant. And that actually perpetuates more abundance in my life, a little secret there on some of the energy of money. But I also know I want more like I just got this award that's sitting here behind me like two comma Club Award. This award is awesome. But you know what, the moment I got that award, you know what I was looking for the next award, that's a trait of a high performer. They're never done evolving. They're always looking to the horizon. And guess what, we never meet the horizon, the world is round, spoiler for flat Earth, the world is round the horizon moves. So just like the end of the rainbow, you'll never get to get to it. So enjoy the journey. Okay. Next is that they have horrored being average. In fact, it feels like death, the idea of being like, like a setting on normal, I should only belong on a washing machine. By the way, that is an awful thing. I want to be completely remarkable. Like, I want you to have an interaction with me that's going to change your life. And I know a lot of you listened to me. And thank you so much. I mean, the amount of downloads that we are getting right now I'm just really proud of you for tuning in and deciding to uplevel your career that's really, really powerful. So I know you're not in the business of being average, if you're listening to me, for us that feels like death. Next is that we embrace and invite change. In fact, people be like, Oh, everything is happening to me, I want you to reprogram into that. What if everything was happening for me? And I understand that's hard, guys. I mean, I lost my brother to murder in the middle of this. And so even then I'm like, What is the lesson to learn from this, which was forgiveness. And to be aware that we are all going to die, our life is going to end. And you get to choose whether or not that life matters. So every day when I look at my brother's picture, which if you were watching me right now, you will see my brother's pictures right behind me, and so is my dad to people I've lost in my life where my biggest inspirations besides my children. I look at them every day. And it's a reminder to keep going. And so when things go and collapse, I look at it and I say how is this working for me? In fact, when I look at my most major collapses, I invited or sparked them, you know, like I think about like, I walked away from corporate America. You know, what, what did I say? I walked away, I walked away, I made a different decision. So if you're looking at your life and like what's going on, you're a product of your decisions and not of your conditions. And I mean, this, I did this when I was homeless, you are proud of your decisions and not of your conditions. If you look at your current reality think this is all it will be. This is all it will be whatever you believe you will achieve. If you believe this is a temporary situation, I'm moving towards the horizon. Hello, welcome high achiever, your top performer. Okay? And then next is that they, they fail spectacularly, okay? Now, this is a really hard thing, because we tend to not want to step out unless we really feel confident what we're doing. But because we own that confidence, so big. That means when we go and we miss we miss bad. We miss that, because we have put so much effort into it. So this year, I'm gonna say like, there's some things I've done. And I was like, Oh, that was great. Like, they're all good. They're all because again, I said, is it working for me? There's nothing bad. I'm not sad about anything I've done here. Like, that didn't work as well. That didn't work as well. And I was like, wow, like, I really like I came in at 10% of my goal of one of the things like, that's, like, that is not even a passage. Like that would be like what you find on the bargain bin, right? Like, it's only 10% of the price, right? So that would be a not a good example. However, it has prepared me to generate $100,000 phases for my people right now. Because the gift was in that was in the lesson of the failure. Okay. And so like when I say failure, people will have like a, an adverse reaction to that. But the failure is actually the most positive learning vehicle we have. The failure is a gift. We will learn way more by failing than we will by never even starting because people were like, well, what if I fail, like, so you're saying there's a chance you might fail, but if you never start you want 100% failed? That's the reframe. You need to give yourself so get off your ass and do something. Okay. All right. And the last thing about a trait of a high performer is that if you want to know what the greatest investment vehicle, go ahead and like take a second here If you're driving, don't do that. But if you're where you can grab your phone, I want you to turn on your phone, I want you to turn on your camera, and I'm doing right now. And I want you to flip it to look at yourself. I want you to smile. Hi, take a picture. This person right here, this is the most powerful investment vehicle in your life. And it's you, you understand that you are in the business of yourself. And that means you prioritize that at all costs. Other people will think that they are doing work for other people, you have always been in the business of yourself. Somebody lied to you at the very beginning of your life and told you you're gonna work for other people. You've always been working for yourself. Now you decide what you tolerate or what you want to uplevel now I invite you to come visit me if this was like powerful for you. This is like one iota of what I'm teaching inside of the corporate cash machine. So head over to corporate cash machine att.com It's a free masterclass. I don't know when the next day is coming, but it's going to be coming amazingly soon. And it will be so powerful for you to reprogram your belief to break out of victimhood to start to ascend your career to the next level corporate cash machine.com Can't wait to see you there.