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Am I the only one who gets the idea that a lot of people these days are stuck in mediocrity? They\u2019re not happy with where they are, but have no idea where they want to be; kind of just phoning it in. If you\u2019re not sure you\u2019re one of those, here are some warning signs. You may be phoning it in if, or when:<\/p>\n
1. You start dreading going to work on Monday morning, Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
2. You spend most of Monday morning in water-cooler talk, roaming around, dreading actually getting started; knowing you can get in a full day\u2019s work in an hour or two anyway.<\/p>\n
3. You complain about how bad the economy is as a justification for doing nothing about it.<\/p>\n
4. You spend most of your \u201cthink time\u201d worrying about losing the job you have. Even though you don\u2019t like it, it does pay the bills.<\/p>\n
5. You haven\u2019t upgraded your skills in a long, long time.<\/p>\n
6. You\u2019re not reading books about best practices in your field, or at least something you\u2019re passionate about.<\/p>\n
7. You spend company time on monster.com looking for a better job, any job.<\/p>\n
8. You complain about how you\u2019re treated in the marketplace because of your age. And it can go both ways; young and old.<\/p>\n
9. You\u2019re a clock-watcher. You start counting down around 2:00 for when it\u2019s time to go home, and you\u2019re often one of the first people out of the parking garage.<\/p>\n
10. You think, feel, and act as though your company, business, or organization owes you a job for life.<\/p>\n
If more than one of these describes you, your attitude, and behavior, you\u2019re going to get a wake-up call. It could be this Dave Rave, or it could be a pink-slip. You get to choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Am I the only one who gets the idea that a lot of people these days are stuck in mediocrity? They\u2019re not happy with where they are, but have no idea where they want to be; kind of just phoning it in. If you\u2019re not sure you\u2019re one of those, here are some warning signs. … Continue reading “10 Warning Signs You May Be Phoning It In”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}