Office Tip # 4: Doing More Than Paid For

I know that this sounds familiar or somehow related to other quotes you already heard.

It is one of the Law of Success which Napoleon Hill mentioned in his book, THE LAW OF SUCCESS. Most of the popular quotes about exceeding expectation comes from this brilliant idea of Napoleon Hill whose works were been published during the Great Depression of 1930's.

"By rendering more service than that for which you are paid, you will be turning the spotlight of favorable attention upon yourself, and it will not be long before you will be sought with impressive offers for your services, and there will be a continuous market for those services."

More often, our creativity and motivation at work were being deprived by our own thinking. Our output are being limited only on the amount we are being paid for. This usually comes after knowing the salary of a co-employee and comparing to your own pay. Now, the compensation becomes the measurement of our output.

In this Office Tip, we are called to do more than what our companies expect from us. Do things that are greater than the average employees can do. But it should be done in a very careful and kind manner to avoid conflicts. All extra effort are for the benefits of all.

In times like this global financial crisis, we need to do extra effort for the company... in order to survive.