People will notice how you are doing "hard things" and how well you do them. There is a great opportunity for you in that stress, whether you are building something or solving big problems.

1. What Hard Things Are You
Committing to Doing?
Your Answer is Important

2. Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and CEO) Explains:
“You earn reputation by trying to do
hard things well.”
You can build and earn a powerful reputation through the
accomplishment of doing hard things well.
What are those hard things you are working on, learning to
do well? What tasks, problems and challenges?

3. Be Different. Don’t Gravitate Towards Easy.
Most people want to avoid hard problems yet it is in
engaging with them, even struggling with them with poise,
patience and perseverance, that we develop personally and
professionally.
Improvements will come and when we start to solve problems
and do the hard things well, in a way that is helpful and
that others don't do well, we can build a strong, admired,
powerful reputation.

4. Consider:
Whatever your profession, whatever your field and whatever
your commitment to society, think “hard,” not easy. Pursue
“hard things” to do well. Make “hard” simple for you over
time.
Your reputation will grow slowly as capital and an asset
until one day, it might very well grow exponentially. So
look for more difficult problems and in the words of Bezos
"do hard things well."

5. What Else This Might Require:
Honestly, it will most likely demand highly developed
patience or increasing patience. You will need to have a
vivid vision in your mind of what you hope to accomplish and
a purpose that fuels you beyond feel frustration, fatigue,
and discouragement, maybe even depression.
Remember too, that overcoming setbacks and crisis are “hard
things” and that too, if you do them “well” as Bezos says,
can build and earn you an admirable, beneficial reputation.

6. This Slideshow Book Author:
Michael Toebe is a specialist for reputation for
professional relationships communication and wiser, more
successful crisis management, serving individuals and
organizations as a project consultant, ongoing advisor,
coach (communications, conflict, crisis and reputation) and
communications leadership.
He writes the weekly Red Diamonds Newsletter (on Medium) and
hosts the Red Diamonds Podcast with Michael Toebe.