Welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way where we teach you about Spartan Hab, how to just have a stronger, healthier, better,

more successful life in anything and everything that you do.

We're part of the Spartan-Up umbrella of podcast. We're going to bring in you

bite-sized pieces of awesome success-driven information every week with one

thing to do and action to do today.

And in today's episode, what I want to talk to you about

is go beyond your job description.

Don't just do the thing under your job description,

what I would call being a clock puncher.

I was 19 years old and I was working at Costco.

Now back then it was called Price Club and I had been working just for my first week kind of shadowing people

working at the cash register and the store manager came up to me and said

Zach we've got a project in the store and you don't have to say yes to this and immediately

when he threw that little gauntlet down I was already thinking to myself I'm

going to say yes no matter what so he said we're the store is expanding, and we've got a whole

another warehouse that needs to be cleaned out. The tricky thing is you can't

clean it out during our normal store hours. We need you to come in from 5 a.m. and you're going to work till 1 p.m.

and the other thing is there's no air conditioning and you're going to do it alone.

I said yeah I'll do it. So within two weeks I cleaned out an entire warehouse on my own. I remember waking

up much earlier than normal to make my breakfast, pack a lunch, working in the non-air-conditioned place, I would fill up a whole garbage

container every single day on my own. At the end of the two weeks I see a sign that

says employee of the month month Zach Evernish.

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