If you want to get better at your career, sell more in your business, or more effectively learn a new skill you need to do more.

You can’t just keep your head down and work. Go to conferences of peers doing the same thing.

Call others who are doing what you want to do and ask for advice. Create a group that focuses on improvement and holding others in the group accountable.

Read blogs of peers. Read books of people who have accomplished what you want to accomplish. Make sure you’re doing these extra things. 

Working by yourself truly won’t cut it. Get it there and socialize productively. Make sure it’s not to go get drinks which leads to getting drunk, being hungover, and having accomplished nothing.

Don’t get me wrong, every now and then that’s needed. When you meet with people for coffee have questions ready. Be prepared with an agenda. Make sure you let the other person know what you look to gain out of the meeting and what they should expect to take away. 

Make it fun. Let it be a conversation. Connect initially when reaching out. Learn from them. Have them learn from you. 

Get out of your comfort zone. Reach out to successful people even if you think they won’t get back to you. The worst thing that happens is they don’t answer. There’s also the possible of them returning your email. 

Be bold. Be confident. Put yourself out there. You never know what’s possible until you try. 

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.” -Neil Gaiman