Raise Your Standards

Good morning 9-5 Rebels!

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We need to raise our standards.

For too long we’ve settled.

We’ve settled for less than we deserve and, for some odd reason, we’re okay with that.

That reason is probably because it’s easy and it’s what everyone else is doing.

But easy is boring and everyone else shouldn’t dictate your life. In other words, don’t settle for the status quo.

Raise Your Standards

Raise your standards to a new level.

Even if you want to be average, the average has become mediocre. Let’s move the average from ordinary to extraordinary. Raise the bar higher.

Average doesn’t have to be unhappy with your career, never-ending loans, social issues that you ignore. Average should be a successful, challenging job. Average should be a life with no loans and a growing 401(k). Average should be speaking out for a cause you believe in.

Let’s raise our standards. Let’s tell the world that we’re tired of living like everyone else. We want to be more. We want everyone to be more.

Lifting the average up shouldn’t be for a few, but for everyone tired of the status quo.

Raise Your Expectations

First step, make a change in your life. Raise the expectations you put on yourself.

What do you want to change about your life?

What do you want to aspire to be?

Write your answers down. Write the first step you need to take for each answer. Maybe canceling a satellite tv subscription. Maybe updating your resume.

Then act. Actually, complete the next steps.

Raise the expectations for your life. Don’t compare yourself to others. Set a new (higher) standard that others will want to achieve. Lift everyone up while you rise.

TL;DR

• Quit settling for the status quo.

• Raise your standards.

• Strive for extraordinary.

• Upend the average.

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I hope you all have an amazing week!

Quinn