Vote With Your Feet

Lately I have seen more than one person talk about how bad the situation is that they are currently in.

How something is happening that shouldn’t be.

Or how someone is in charge that shouldn’t be or how something should just be different in some way.

And almost without fail, any time I hear someone talking about how something should or shouldn’t be or how something should or shouldn’t be different than it is – I remember a simple phrase that I learned in my first Real Estate Bar Camp:

Vote With Your Feet.

Vote With Your Feet as in: just get up and walk away.

When you Vote With Your Feet and choose to do “something different” than what you see going on around you, you do two things:

1. You send a signal to everyone around you that you didn’t agree with what was happening
2. You are suddenly free to focus on what YOU think should be happening and can get busy making it happen.

Don’t like your boss at work because they are mean to you?

Vote With Your Feet.

Think you should have gotten a bigger raise or a bigger Christmas bonus this year?

Vote With Your Feet.

Tired of working in an industry or on a project that doesn’t excite you?

Vote With Your Feet.

Vote With Your Feet Works Two Ways

The concept of Vote With Your Feet doesn’t only work with NOT wanting to be a part of something, it also works when you WANT to be a part of something.  Want to work with someone for whatever reason?

Vote With Your Feet.

Show up where they work and ask them if you can work with them.  If they say no, come back the next day.  If they still say no, come back a week later. Still no? Keep. Coming. Back.

The strongest organizations in the world are those where the people who are involved with them volunteer to be there.

Voting With Your Feet Enables Magic To Happen

The real magic happens when you vote with your feet, do something in a different way and then get lots and lots of people to follow you.

And if you get lots and lots of people to follow you?

You just might change the world.