Get set for your career success

If you study the lives of successful men and women, you will see that all of them have dreamt big, sought big and got big. Their disposition and conduct continually paved the way for greater success and growth.

You may harbour any professional objectives, however, during the course of your career journey there are several initiatives that will help you attain greater success and contentment. These initiatives will help you understand what precisely you seek in life and facilitate taking appropriate action to make your preferred professional individuality. And accordingly, you will thus be able to get the desired support to keep you going in difficult times. Six prime actions that you must invariably take to make certain that you are indeed on the path to career success and satisfaction are:

·  Disenabling ambiguity: This happens to be the most important initiative that you should be taking, if you want to achieve anything worthwhile in life. There should be no room for any doubt in whatever you seek and what is important for you; and you will not hesitate to forego anything for. It cannot be any imprecise or indefinite notion of wanting to do something different or consequential. You need to get to the core to comprehend what doing something different or consequential implies to you on individual and explicit planes. People fail to instil satisfaction and excitement in their careers because they fail to engage in any initiative to discern what their inclinations, strongpoints and passions are; and find a career that is in harmony with them. They also fail to do anything to see how they are adding up to their problems and challenges. Remember that any successful person who is committed to increasing his or her awareness of the type of personality they want to be indeed becomes one.

· Converting worry into motivation: The initiative to shed feelings of desperation and despair in the face of your professional challenges is very important. What is of significance is to learn to be more answerable, liable and skilful. You ought to keep your wits about to see emerging situations that could be taken a cue from to move ahead in life. There will be several men and women who will confess about various issue plaguing their work and which impact their career. Success will not be yours if you move against the flow of the wind. On the other hand, you need to use prevailing odds to your advantage. It is you and you alone who will have to find ways and means to convert your worries into motivation to bring about positive changes and ensure that you are on the way to success.

· Imposing your boundaries: Having found out what you want to seek, you need to be robust and resilient enough to guard your frontiers; respect your urgencies; and communicate whatever is essential to move forward. There are many young capable men and women who have no doubt in their minds about what they seek to attain. However, when the time comes to take a big and powerful leap forward, they do not measure up. In other words, they simply fail to act. Such inability to act is prompted by several factors, however, what is important is that they should get over their apprehensions and qualms; as also any possible feeling of remorse, embarrassment or unfitness. It is also essential that they learn to be adequately strong to stand up for whatever they seek and if necessary, demand it.     

· Ensuring 100 % devotion: You cannot even dream of being successful in both your career and life without displaying steadfastness. It is possible for you to achieve anything that you set out for, provided you are willing to take risk and play with uncertainties. However, the foregoing does not call for brash actions or obdurate attitude to not deviate from the course once adopted. What it implies is that you should display general awareness of changing situations and calling for assistance to preclude adverse state of affairs. You should pledge yourself to your objectives cent per cent and concurrently learn to be open and amenable. Remember that anybody who knows his or her weaknesses but toils hard to overcome them have more chances of succeeding vis-à-vis others.     

· Expressing assertively: Successful people are characteristically very appealing narrators. When they talk about their efforts, businesses or visions, they invariably arouse others in a manner that they are viewed as leaders to be followed. The very reason that prompts them to do anything is well comprehended by them. They thus are able to have a large support and popularity base. These successful individuals are very proficient at talking about their attainments in a manner that others are motivated to follow them. Successful people are adept at negotiating on any issue and can indulge in excellent PR exercises by sharing information appropriately so that besides creating support, loyalty is also generated.

· Fostering energised relationships: Successful people know the fact that they cannot do it all by themselves; they need collaborators who are established partners. They are also engaged in developing a galvanised and involved society that facilitates their success. While common values boost relationships, the truth is that such relationships have to be based on faith, credibility and uprightness. On the contrary, people who want only to be acquiesced at all times seldom succeed. And more importantly, if you attempt to exercise your authority in a negative manner or indulge in petty politics, the results can be catastrophic for you.

You may have success kissing your feet without resorting to all or any of the above initiatives. But then, your career journey will indeed be a very bumpy ride and en route, you would have antagonised many. And when you finally reach your last point, you will realise that you indeed are feeling miserable in ways more than one. Remember that the road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve your dream.