This Question Stopped Me: “How can I become recession-proof in my job?”

Intro

But this question may not get to the root of what you’re solving for…

The Story

Saw this question- “How can I become recession-proof in my job?”

You don’t. 

But this question may not get to the root of what you’re solving for…

Ask better questions and get more focused answers to your challenges and uncertainty. If you ask irrelevant, uncontrollable, or untimely questions, you must dig deeper to get down to what you can actually impact with self-reliant action.  

Context, clarity, and conviction with your action matters. Seek ultimate clarity with understanding what the challenge or opportunity is and how you can approach it with action.

For this question, “How can I become recession-proof in my job?”, consider not attempting to proof against something that is inevitable with economic cycles, rather, consider what behaviors, action, skills, experience, and relationships can position you to be so valuable, that recessions don’t impact demand for your talent. It’s not your job you are protecting…protection is futile, it’s personal innovation with a hedged portfolio of skills and experience.

Jobs come and go, but rare talent is difficult to find and when companies, clients, or the market find it, they hang on. And rare talent positioned for success…that’s unbeatable over time. When you know what you need to do and the details of who, when, what, why, how…you’re more likely to do them.

So seek positioning yourself through your own innovation process and build your more secure future based on your own disruption, rather than your own protection.

Closing

Shift your mindset by getting down to the root cause of what you’re solving for. Ask better questions, gain better clarity to take action with conviction. Calm, clarity, and candor, with conviction drive the outcomes you desire. These build confidence to fuel the machine. Start building by stacking your proof to show yourself you can do this.

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