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Be A Professional

December 8, 2020

Interestingly, the word “professional” comes from the Latin word “profere”. This means to make a promise (through proffesing).

In Ancient Rome, as people began to accumulate more experience and skill towards a specific trade, he will make an announcement to the public of his specialized trade. This is his profession… making him a professional.

Well, what does it mean in today’s day and age? We have seen it used in marketing slogans. We use it as a description of anything. We even use it to describe ourselves.

The sad thing is we often are disappointed by so-called “professionals”. We are disappointed because they are not committing to what they said they would. We are disappointed because they lied to us.

But, we can change. We can change because we can restore professionalism in professionals by making going back to its root meaning: a promise. We can change if we commit ourselves to become what a professional should be.

The beauty of being a professional is that it isn’t limited to a degree or an achievement. Whatever trade you have, you can be a professional. And why aspire to be a professional?

You owe it to yourself. You owe yourself at least one thing — a craft, a task, a commitment — of which you can attribute to yourself.

You owe it to others. You owe others for your God-given gift is meant to be shared, enjoyed, and be a source of inspiration.

You owe it to your God. You owe it to Him for the talent you have — whether it be a skill, an insight, character, grit, whatever it may be — as one of the unlocked capabilities of a redeemed creator.

And so, the world needs you. We need you to own your profession. We need you to go to the world and proclaim that “this is what I do, and this is how I can contribute“.

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The majority of us grew up in a society where we a The majority of us grew up in a society where we are programmed to avoid failure as much as possible.

It’s embedded in our culture: our family, our neighborhood, mass media, schooling system, work environment and basically everywhere you go.

The harshest truth to this is not the insults that come, it’s the branding that goes along with it; if you fail, you’re branded as a failure. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Next year ends my 1st decade in earning online (I started as a freelancer during my college years and founded Telic on the 3rd year of college). The biggest lesson from that journey is the ridiculous amount of failed experiments that needed to be had BEFORE there is an even slight chance of success.

Ask any of the first hires (who are still partner-employees) and they would easily say that for every successful product/department/expansion, there are 2 – 10 failed experiments in the forms of pivots, micro product announcements, mini teams and so many other catastrophes.

In fact, we fail every day. There’s always a problem, an issue, a hiccup. But those failures, whether minor or major, pave the way for the next reiteration.

Since this is true in every realized potential, shouldn’t we rejoice after taking the leap yet falling short?

If this is true, shouldn’t we rethink how we react knowing that each failure gets us closer to a desired result?

If this is true, shouldn’t we embrace failure as a tool to hone ourselves and the people around us (especially if we lead)? If this is true, shouldn’t we structure our families and loved ones to withstand the failures and maneuver our ways into a more desirable positions?

The goal ISN’T not to fail, the goal is to fail as many times possible but just enough not to be out of the game.

As long as you’re playing, you still have a chance to win.

So I beg you: please fail… because you need to.

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