This is the final part of the two part article. You can read the part 1 here.
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- BLEND THE COLORS- The shoes you are filling may be brown, low ankle and patterned and like me, you love black, high ankle and laced. What do you do then? Blend the colors....
Take off the black belt and use a brown one to compliment the shoes, and if it will help, change the freaky tie. Shake things around and slay in the new brown shoe, brown belt and that color of tie that goes with it or better let the missus pick for you.
What does this mean?
Your predecessor's organizational arrangements and charting may be different from yours and even flawed according to you yet with all that, you are expected to "fill his shoes".
Set a chart that you will work with and make sure to lay out your work tools in the order you are familiar with. You may change the office setting, grab the window view if there is any and work with your team at a pace that will guarantee results.
- USE THE SHOES, REALLY USE THE SHOES- Filling a 9 as a 7 is pretty hard and don't you forget that. So you must make sure to use the shoes and when I say use the shoes, I mean you have to really use the shoes and wear it out. Ruin it! It is only by doing this that you will be able to revert to using your 7 while having everyone still think you still wear a 9.
What does this mean?
You must work at the job and handle your assignation in a way you come out with results that beats your predecessor's. Create a pedestal even he cannot climb. Make sure to deliver results any and every time. Raise the bar continuously until you are able to surpass even your own expectations.
Doing that will makes your predecessor's achievements look like child's play.
Now that we are done with filling big shoes, let's get back to Steemit as your job. Whose shoes are you looking to fill or get into? In the writing and blogging industry, who is that person you see as metrics for measuring your performance and that you dream to be like?
Filling a shoe is simple but really living as the owner of the shoe is what is hard work and mostly impossible and that is why you must, (1). Get the right size of shoes, (2). Wear the shoe the way it will fit, (3). Blend the colors and (4). Use the shoes; really use the shoes.*
Self originality is key; you may work hard at becoming someone because they are awesome, forgetting that they too are working harder to become "awesomer" and greater.
EVERY DREAM IS FASHIONED AFTER AN EXISTING ONE BUT DEVELOPED WITH A TARGET TO SURPASS THE "KID ON THE BLOCK".
Dan Larimer may have started Steemit after looking and going through Facebook and Reddit, but today Steemit is nothing like either of the two, instead it has set itself as a force to beat.
I am not looking to fill anyone's shoes trust me, I was born into wickedly big shoes. As a Nigerian, I am already walking in a 9 even as a 7 and I am really using the shoe and hoping to ruin it so that when I step back into my own 7, it won't matter then if it is a 7.
Lots of Nigerians are born into exceptionally big shoes and from very young age, our parents helped us navigate the stormy and stumbling roads in size 9 shoes while we were yet size 7.
MY PoV:
Having to become someone in terms of delivering results or performance is one task many people jump into out of the sheer need to prove a point and once that is the case, the intention quickly becomes the undoing of that individual.
Take time out to assess your assignation and stay within parameters of expected work flow while going beyond it in your mind.
Being someone else is hard and that means you have to put in lots of shit work and no one likes to be shitty.
Make the world a better place for someone today!