New Initiatives need a champion, they need someone to take the lumps and hits and push forward on them. New Initiatives are never easy, because the resistance is great and the pushback is real. That’s why initiatives need champions, with backpacks, because they have a lot to carry.
If you’re happy with your reach, you don’t need to do anything. If you want to increase your reach, you’re going to need to do something, it won’t come to you. It won’t “just happen”. Make a plan, buy the tools you need to help you, and ask people for help. But know that if you want to extend your reach, it starts with you, and no one else.
Careers are exactly like video games. You start off not knowing what to do so you plod along and stuff “happens”. Then you figure out you want to get better at something, perhaps even “specialize”. So you get good at that thing, invest in yourself, get the tools and you become better at what you do. Then like anything, you get to the point where you need to learn the tips and tricks and master…
Assumptions are needed when you have too many variables at play. When everything is fluid, you need something solid at play to minimize the variables at work. The key then when making assumptions is to make sure you know what you’re assuming, why and knowing what the impact will be. Then your assumption has reason and strength in moving forward. It might change over time, but at least now you’ll have a reason for it.
If you’re following the traditional school calendar (not for post-education but grade school only. You’re halfway there through all the goals you had wanted to achieve. Don’t give up if you haven’t started – but get started now.