Produce & direct your professional success

There are many people who dream big and seek more; and they get whatever they want. They have characteristic behavioural patterns and indulge in vital actions that by themselves serve to roll out a red carpet for them. There are others too whose conduct make their career plummet. Success is therefore all a matter of how you conduct yourself. Whatever are your career objectives and no matter how you visualize things, there are several actions that will at all times provide you the required prop to be successful in your long career journey.

 You definitely want to draw feelings of contentment in your life; for that it is essential that you recognize your aspirations and initiate appropriate action to put together your preferred professional distinctiveness. It is also vital to muster adequate support and encouragement to help you tide over difficult times. The following actions will help you attain the crowning glory that you seek in your life and career:

·   Remove ambiguity:  It is essential that you are explicitly clear about your objectives and priorities in life. To start with, you may be tenuous, but after some time, everything has to be consequential. If a successful career eludes you, like it happens with many others, it is because you fail to make use of your inherent capabilities and visualize problem areas. You need to be sentient to what is happening around you to have more options at your disposal.  

·   Protect your frontiers:  If you are clear about what you intend to seek or achieve, you should be resilient enough to safeguard your border lines, revere your main concerns and talk of various prerequisites of success – all as pertinent to you. There are many who know what they seek to attain, but at the last minute back out from taking any initiative. This is nothing but a collapse; you need to guard against it.  

·   Work sincerely but astutely:  Your devotion to work ought to be like the proverbial tree that faces a storm but does not shake with it. You have to be venturesome too, but without being imprudent. Seeking assistance whenever and wherever necessary should be a principle to be followed. In this way, you will be pledging yourself to working without pretense and sans a rigid mindset. People who work to plug holes in their potential invariably taste success earlier than those who shy away from doing so.

·   Foster potent associations:  You should understand that you cannot go all alone to attain your objectives. Networking is an essential ingredient of career success and you need to spare time and efforts for it. Your relationships should be based on mutual faith, sincerity and collective ideals. Concurrently, you have to guard against any cut-throat attitude and sycophancy. In other words, honesty and candidness should form the very basis of all your relationships.

·   Captivate with your words:  All successful people have great communication skills. The manner in which they relate their pursuits turn out to be very motivating for others. They know the precise reasons behind every single action of theirs and exert an intense pull on like-minded people with their superb negotiating skills. In other words, successful people know how to portray themselves positively to draw support and allegiance.  

·   Convert worry to stimulation:  You will have fear and anxiety afflicting you. Therefore, it is essential that you maintain your calm and preclude any hounding. Display of an utmost sense of responsibility and a high degree of professional skills is thus inescapable to adapt yourself to emerging challenges. If you do not learn from experience, you learn nothing.  You have to find a way to transform every bit of your exasperation and frustration into encouragement for revolution, progress and triumph.   

If you do not act upon the above tenets, you will move ahead in your career journey alright, but it will be an extremely arduous one. Every segment, every bend every intersection and every fork will prove to be a painful experience. Whether you reach your destination or not, the end of your career journey will leave you feeling perplexed and unsatisfied.  

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress. Professional success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. And the most creative shortcut to it is to keep re-assessing its connotation for you on a continual basis. You have to be your own sponsor.