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Don’t expect applause, a raise, the admiration of your peers, or even your boss, when you accomplish something at work. No one else is excited that you made your monthly quotas. Wow! Look at me! Your peers are worried about making their quotas. No one is going to slap you on the back because your orders shipped early, your clients paid their invoices, or you were wooed by a competitor. Wow! Look at me some more! Those things are nice, but they’re expected to happen.

And by the way, no one really cares that you were late because your toddler threw up on your suit on the way to daycare. Or that you need a new transmission. Or that your paycheck doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Because it’s not about your quotas, your orders, your suit, your transmission, or your paycheck. It’s just not about you. It’s about the bottom line – market share, profit and loss, earnings, the stock price. That’s why it’s called business … not Wow! Look at me! Help the company do better and you’ll do better. It’s an old cliché, but clichés get to be clichés by being true.