There comes a stage in your career when you’re no longer paid just for what you do: you’re paid for how you think, the weight your name carries, and the ideas and solutions you bring into complex situations.
At that point in your life, your career is no longer about weekly tasks on your laptop, or monthly reports you have to write. Your days are spent in influential rooms, on calls, in meetings and on the move. Your role, at that point, evolves into shaping strategy, influencing outcomes, and providing clarity where others see chaos.
But that level of influence isn’t handed to you. It’s earned through years of diligent hard work, learning, failing, unlearning, and evolving.
Now that you have strength on your side, try to show up, do the work that is required of you and more, and build a name that speaks even when you are silent.