Are you sitting at the right table?

Do you find yourself at the wrong table where your progress is viewed as a threat, your contributions are overlooked, or your presence is simply accepted rather than appreciated? The most rewarding chapters sometimes begin when you finally decide to get up and walk away.

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By Justin Wright: brillancebrief.com

Some people never understand what you bring

to the table, until they see you at another table.

Staying somewhere you're not valued

isn't loyalty. It's self-abandonment.

I spent years trying to earn a seat I already had.

Shrinking myself to make others comfortable.

Working overtime to prove my worth.

Waiting to be appreciated.

The appreciation never came.

But the exhaustion did.

And one day it hit me:

I wasn't being patient. I was being neglected.

I wasn't being humble. I was being overlooked.

I wasn't paying my dues. I was losing myself.

Some tables will never have a plate for you.

Because they don't value what you bring.

And that's your cue to leave.

Signs you're at the wrong table

- Your voice gets talked over

- Your growth is seen as a threat

- Your contributions go unnoticed

- Your presence is tolerated, not celebrated

Signs you've found the right one

- Your ideas are welcomed

- Your potential is nurtured

- Your wins are everyone's wins

- Your seat was saved, not fought for

Stop begging to be fed by people who watch you starve.

You don't need to earn your worth.

You just need to leave the places that forgot it.

Walk away.

Build your own table if you have to

Invite others who were starving too.

The best chapters often start the moment you finally stand up and leave.