#MondayMotivation: Why Your Quota Is Equally As Important

I’ve been working in PR, a little over 3 years now and every time I look back at my journey, especially at BHM, I wonder how I’ve been able to do so much in such little time.

It’s been rough, but it’s also been equally as fun.

It’s been very busy. My flame fanners will attest to the fact that they hardly ever see me and when they do, I’m getting ready to jet off to work on some project with a closing in deadline.

I’ve said that to say this, it’s been a rewarding experience and I honestly would never change it for anything in the world.

Plus I’ve seen campaigns succeed and the business grow whilst I’ve been there and I like to think that I’ve in my own ways contributed to that success.

This brings me to the topic above. No matter how little you feel your job or your contribution to a cause is, do it and do it well because the project won’t be a success without you. You wouldn’t even have a job if your services weren’t needed so why be lackadaisical?

I’ve come across people who think that because they’re an intern, a graduate trainee, an assistant, a secretary, some because they have a lot of help and support as a mid-level staff and even a senior staff, just sit back and cross their legs while others slave away.

That, in my opinion, is very wrong.

Why are you in a job to sit back and not do anything?

Why are you coming to work everyday to relax?

Why not just stay at home and enjoy that baby boy or baby girl life?

Why jeopardise a project because of your laziness?

Why not give someone else who is willing and ready, a chance to do fantastically well at your job?

Insouciance generally irks me and when I see it in a young person, I literally feel bad for the person because your youth is the only time you have to work hard and make a life for yourself. You don’t want to be working as hard in your old age while your mates are retired on some beach or in some holiday home somewhere.

There’s even an old proverb that says to “make hay while the sun shines”. There’s also the Bible verse: “Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth” – Proverbs 10 : 4.

And I’m sure some of you are saying to yourselves that why do more than what I’m being paid to do? Why kill myself? But as the popular writer and philosopher, Albert Hubbarb once said, ““Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”. It’s that simple. Why wait for a promotion or blessing when you can show your worth and get it as a result?

The parable of talents or Minas as some call it is a practical example of my point here. Jesus in Matthew 25:14-30 explained to us how a master entrusted his servants with talents and some came back with double while one of them came back with nothing. If you don’t know this parable, you should read it. It’s quite interesting.

Matthew 25:14-30 English Standard Version (ESV)The Parable of the Talents14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[a] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents,[b] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[c] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

I guess my point here is that laziness brings nothing but hard and smart work pays! Your quota is equally as important as the next person’s. Take it seriously!

Lots of love!!

-Pookie!

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