Confident (Five Minute Friday)

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Confidence was my 2018 word of the year. I’m not quite as confident with the amount of confidence I mustered up last year, but feel like I did it justice anyway. I get to practice being confident in many ways. When I got for a job interview and assure them that I am a fast learner and pick up new things fairly quickly. I truly feel this is true and believe it to be true mostly because my mother always told me I was a quick study and could learn anything I set my mind to learning. I must admit she was probably right. I have acclimated to not one but two different temp jobs for the same company and am confidently finding new ways to make the job easier for me and more efficient. I confidently let my new supervisors know that I intend to do such a great job while working for them that they won’t want to let me leave when my contract is up and will have no choice but to find a way to keep me. It worked once already and I was chosen to go to a different department and learn a completely different job so my contract could be extended.

I am finding joy in my new job and learning new things. There are opportunities all around us to learn new skills, time-saving tricks and find new people to potentially add to my resume as a reference. Each new task I am asked to do is a chance to prove my worth and increase my skill set. It is also a new chance to be helpful and set a good example of working joyfully. I could see myself working at this company another fifteen to twenty years until we can afford for me to retire. I feel needed but not trapped in my job. I feel like the work I do can help to make the lives of others better in some small way. I have already been told my work is thorough. After completing a task that was thought to require overtime in less than three hours from the time it was assigned, my supervisor commented “Slick!”, which I am interpreting as a positive comment. I am a problem solver. I like being challenged. Each new challenge helps build my confidence a little more. It feels good to know I am doing good, honest work and earning a fair wage for it. I am confident that if there is a way to ensure my contract will be extended, it is by going above and beyond and having a positive attitude. I would like to end with this quote I found recently because I think it fits, “Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.” Brian Tracy in Chapter 19 of “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”

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This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Confident
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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