4 Career Hacks You’ll Actually Want to Use 🧑🏾💻
Issue #109: These career hacks are practical, real, and can make a huge difference · Quality or Quantity? · 5 Finger Breathing Break
Welcome to Learn + Grow, where you will learn tips and tools that will help you be 3% more peaceful + productive in just 3 minutes a week.
💡 Here are 3-ideas to help you learn, grow, and be inspired this week!
🎓 Learn
I’m not sure if I told you this before, but every month, I share company highlights (we call it ‘M&M’ as Month in Multidots). I know, very creative, right?
In this M&M, I also share a few tips that will help my team learn some new skills and mental models.
I shared these 4 Career Hacks with them, and today, I wanted to share them with you, too.
We all come across career advice, but some pieces stand out because they can truly make a difference.
I found these 4 gems in some email newsletters I read regularly and felt compelled to share.
They’re simple but powerful—worth reflecting on and applying in your own journey. If you are a founder, share it with your team (and consider subscribing to my founder’s newsletter) 😜
Career Hack #1: Don't narrowly focus on your salary and lose sight of intangible forms of compensation. Early in your career, a job that pays a low salary but offers access to incredible networks of people, significant training, and knowledge accumulation may be far more valuable than a high-salary job that offers none of those.
Career Hack #2: Stop asking how you can add value—that's just creating work for others. Spend some time figuring it out, then go do it. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and take it off their plate. It's an easy way to add value, put up a win, and build momentum. In the long run, the creator with the highest net value usually wins.
Career Hack #3: Be reliable. You can get pretty damn far in life by just being someone that people can count on to show up and do the work. Reliability is one of the most underrated traits. In the short run, it is much harder to be exceptional than it is to be reliable, and in the long run, being consistently reliable makes you exceptional.
Career Hack #4: Take the small things seriously because small things become big things. The person who takes small things seriously earns the trust of those around them. That person will eventually be given bigger and bigger opportunities, the types of opportunities that dramatically change one’s trajectory.
Key Takeaway:
I hope you understand that building a successful career isn't just about titles and salaries.
It’s about focusing on long-term value, seizing opportunities to solve problems, being reliable, and treating even the smallest tasks with respect.
Trust me, these strategies applied consistently, can set you apart and pave the way for bigger, more meaningful achievements.
🚀 Growth Tip
Nikuanj Patel reached out to me on LinkedIn, asking how to balance quantity and quality as a beginner.
Here’s my growth tip for this week:
Starting out? → Prioritize practice and focus on producing quantity over quality.
Ready to scale? → Shift your focus to quality and refining your skills.
For example, if you’re a new content creator, focus on publishing more articles at first to get comfortable with the process and to find your voice. Once you’ve built some confidence and momentum, start refining your work—improve the structure, polish your language, and add depth to each piece. Quantity builds the foundation; quality elevates it.
🤩 Inspiration
Most WeWork locations have a wellness room (which, for me, often doubles as a nap room).
I discovered this 5-finger breathing technique in one of those spaces and absolutely loved it as a quick brain break.
Give it a try this week—you might be surprised by how refreshed it makes you feel!
👋 Until next time, Anil / CEO and Co-Founder of Multidots, Multicollab, and Dotstore.
FYI…I also write about agency growth and Enterprise WordPress.
May the Peaceful Growth be with you! 🪴
P.S. If you're a founder looking to grow your agency to $5M (without working overtime), keep reading.