It’s easy to think about your work one dimensionally.

We think of ourselves in terms of a title. I’m a surgeon, we think, so I’m here to do surgery.

Or I’m a an engineer, so I’m an here to do engineering. And so forth.

But the reality is that whatever your job title, however humble or however exalted, you have a bigger task: you are there to solve problems.

In every work setting, a business operates to solve a customer’s problems. And ultimately that’s what you’re there to do. Your position in a business is there to help solve problems.

If you go to your work every day with the realization that you’re a problem solver, you’ll make yourself valuable to your customers. And by being valuable to customers, you’ll become more and more valuable to your employer.

Which translates into more prestige, more skills, and more money.

Every side wins. Your customers. Your employer. And you.

Go to your work tomorrow and solve problems. Make your world better. And you’ll benefit. Richly.