don't get fired

If you have a job, or a business, or an opportunity, sit down and make a list of everything you need to do to not get fired.

Not a list of everything you could do, not the stuff you know would annoy people (but they’d put up with it), but a list of the stuff that you know will get you shown the door or have you shutting down shop.

You have two jobs:

Job number one is to not get fired. To keep the lights on. To do the minimum effort of things that will let you keep playing the game.

Job number two is to take all the leftover resources you have and invest them into the highest return. 

You do the first job so that you don’t lose the game. So that you don’t get benched. So that you get to keep playing.

You do the second job to win the game.

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.