When considering your career, you need to think big picture. If you're too short-sighted or narrow-minded, you won't achieve great things. For example, a higher salary isn't worth sacrificing a job opportunity at a company where you can grow into higher-level positions. What's the point then?
7 Essential Workplace Skills You Must Master
1. Your Goals
Yogi Berra said, "If you don't know where you're going, you won't get there."He was right. You need a goal and a corresponding plan. You can adjust along the way, but you must have a goal and a plan, and stay focused on that goal. If you're smart, opportunistic, adaptable, and willing to work hard, you can achieve remarkable things... including financial success.
2. Love Your Work
Steve Jobs said in his Stanford commencement speech:Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. You must believe that the dots will connect in your future. This approach has never let me down, and it has completely transformed my life. The only way to achieve great things is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
3. The Company You Work For
If I have any secret to professional success, it's this:Treat every company as a potential rocket ship to the moon. Sure, you're already on board, but what if this ship can't take you there? You can choose to work at an established company where you'll find room for advancement, or opt for a cool startup where you can become a jack-of-all-trades. You have choices. Give it a shot.
4. How much you love taking risks
If forced to choose between negotiating for a generous salary and creating your own opportunities, I'd pick the latter. This skill will serve you throughout your entire career.
5. How hard you work
These days, it seems cooler to talk about working smart than working hard. But you need both. No hard work, no success.For extended periods, you should give your absolute all to achieve your goals.
6. Your Attitude
If you believe you deserve things without earning them, you might get them—but not everything, and certainly nothing remarkable. On the other hand, if you earn every achievement, work hard for advancement, and maintain a positive attitude toward your job, you will embrace success—that's for sure.
7. Impact on the Business
A company exists to achieve its business objectives. The closer you are to the core of the business and the greater your influence on its success or failure, the more valuable you become to the company. This increases your opportunities for growth and advancement, allowing you to earn more money.
15 Ways to Fill Yourself with Positive Energy
1. You are not an island; you must connect with the world to truly shine.
2. What in life do you find most unbearable? Write it down, then simplify it one by one!
3. Recall the most glorious moment of your life, write it down, and post it on your wall. Use it to encourage yourself and remind yourself: I can do even better!
4. Stop comparing yourself to others. You are you, and you are outstanding. You don't need to be like them.
5. Pick one thing that makes you happy every day and do it. When it becomes a habit, you'll be happy every day.
6. Know what truly matters in life and strive to make room for it.
7. Fear is the flip side of confidence. Overcoming one fear builds one confidence, doesn't it?
8. When you catch yourself thinking, "I should have done better," step back and tell yourself: "I can do better!"