Your work speaks for you or your work speaks against you. There’s no neutral ground. No escape hatch.

People see it immediately—the quality, the thought, the care you put in. They don’t need your explanations or your credentials. They experience what you deliver, and that tells them everything about whether they can trust you.

When someone’s referred to you, they’re already looking for confirmation. Is this person as good as I heard? Can I count on them? Your work answers those questions before you say a word.

Here’s the hard but exciting part: If you’re not getting the results you want, stop looking outward. The services and products you offer come from you. Look inward. If something’s not working, you’re the only one who can fix it, and that includes asking for help and listening to the observations and answers from people you respect.

Also, take responsibility. Make sure you ask yourself the tough questions:

What’s not landing?

Where am I cutting corners?

Where’s my effort thin?

Where have I gotten comfortable, let things slide, told myself “good enough”?

Here’s where most people stumble: they ignore the whispers of doubt. That small inside voice saying “this could be better” or “I rushed this”—listen to it. Even if it’s only 3% true, that 3% might be the difference between mediocrity and excellence. Between being forgotten and being remembered. Between earning a client or losing one.

You already know the truth about your work. You know when you’ve given your best and when you haven’t. You know when fear made you play small or when resistance dulled your edge, and you succumbed to laziness.

The beautiful part? You can change. You can do better. You get to decide how to be every single day. Every single project. Fully you or only partial.

Your work is either your best advertisement or your biggest liability.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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This matters too – The Value of Your Work.

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