Top performance doesn’t mix with complacency. Katie Douthwaite Wolf, a content marketing writer for a health care IT company and a contributor to The Muse (themuse.com), an online career guidance resource, provides these signs that your drive to succeed has waned:
1. You’ve stopped sharing your ideas.
Maybe your ideas were met with resistance too many times, or maybe you simply fell into the team’s long-established processes, and now it seems that any change would be an unnecessary burden for yourself and your team. You may feel completely competent within your current workflows, but if you’re not constantly looking for ways to improve, it’s clear that you’ve lost some drive to succeed.
2. You don’t speak up when you disagree.
Instead of looking out for your teammates’ best interests, you have an attitude of “if they want to make bad decisions, let them; they’ll get what’s coming to them.”
3. You’re no longer interested in staying current.
Are you opting out of conferences and other events that would keep you up to date on important knowledge and trends in your industry? When you feel a little too smug in your position, it’s easy to let your job knowledge slip.
4. You don’t take initiative.
Instead of working ahead on your to-do list, you let your responsibilities pile up until the last minute.
“If you allow yourself to remain complacent, you’re likely going to grow dissatisfied while your performance suffers,” says Wolf. “For the sake of your happiness and career, learn to recognize these signs and start considering what steps you can take to renew that ‘new job’ feeling.”
