In this episode, I want to talk about why we need to raise our standards.

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My name is Greg Klunis, and this episode I want to talk about raising our standards

Now this is an interesting topic to me. It's something I've been thinking about quite a bit over the last two or so months, I guess,

about to be three months of 2017. And it has to do with all aspects of our lives, but I'm speaking primarily from the point of view of our careers.

That piece of our life that we spend such an enormous amount of time on every single day.

You see, I've recently realized that I've been making a mistake for the past three years since

graduating college and that mistake has been not holding myself to a high enough

standard number one and number two not having a high enough standard for what I deserved

and what I would settle for and this turned out to be extremely important but let me

explain over the last three years out to be extremely important, but let me explain.

Over the last three years, I've made an enormous amount of mistakes as it relates to my career,

which has then affected my finances, which has been affected so many other areas of my life.

Chief amongst those mistakes has been choosing and accepting jobs that I knew for a fact I would not like.

And I knew this because I had no interest in the industries that those jobs served.

So for example, my first job out of college was doing digital marketing for a small

company here in New York City that creates real estate software, commercial real estate software.

And the work itself could potentially have been interesting.

I liked digital marketing, I liked graphic design, I liked web design and I got to

utilize all of those skill sets there. But I knew that I had no interest in the

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