3 Keys to Unprecedented Career Success
Intentional Living
The career of a successful professional is no accident. Such a career cannot be sustained by the family or socioeconomic situation a person is born into. Career progress and levels of success are the direct result of careful planning and the diligent pursuit of a chosen purpose.
It is only by taking responsibility for one’s own destiny that a person can make themselves stand out among their peers as an expert with unique ability or knowledge.
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Read. Write. Do.
The only means of ensuring substantial progress as a professional is to become a student of your chosen field.
By actively pursuing knowledge and growth as a person, as well as a professional, one can develop new skills and become more valuable to the organizations they work for or the clients they serve.
While everyone has their own preferences when it comes to learning, only by incorporating some level of exploratory reading, reflective writing, and practice of work related job tasks can a person successfully master the new concepts or skills needed to advance their careers and income potential.
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Productivity and Self-Discipline
A major factor that contributes to the profound effect of intentional living is self-discipline. It takes discipline to carry the responsibility of one’s own success and failures. It takes discipline to create a professional development plan and work through it until success is achieved.
For some of us, levels of self-discipline are low. Maybe even worse is that some of us with average to high levels of discipline have lost sight of our natural diligence because of repeated failures that have resulted from working hard but not intelligently.
By working smarter rather than harder, by working systematically and productively, we can make the most of our finite levels of self-discipline. Through achieving small victories, having capitalized on our levels of discipline, we might also inspire our own spike in work-ethic.
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