Don’t play with your career

There are several people who have harboured big dreams and aspirations; and been successful in attaining whatever they sought. Such people have certain qualities and engage themselves in actions that bring success to them. There also many others who, by virtue of their own actions bring failure to themselves.

You may have towering professional aims, but unless you move in the right direction, you will not be able to accomplish any of them. Six actions on your part that will help you to contour your professional image and serve to inspire you in the wake of difficult going are:

·   Have well-enunciated objectives: This is an inexorable condition to do well in life. You should be clear about what precisely you seek and what is pertinent to you; and be willing to sacrifice everything for them. People fail in their careers because they are unable to fill in the blanks as related to them. They are unable to exert themselves and find it difficult to identify their weak-spots. Remember that if you are mindful, you have alternatives available to you. All successful people remain steadfast in all their actions, including when it comes to emulating their role models. If you dismiss uncertainties harbour self-confidence, your prospects of success will increase manifold and greater opportunities will come your way.

·   Articulate confidently: Your written and spoken prowess has to be good, compelling and captivating. You should know how to talk about your work and results so that others can take a cue from them. You should know the prompting factors of all your actions and will facilitate people getting drawn to you. In addition, you also need to shore up and give confidence to others; your supportive actions will portray you in very good light and enhance your popularity.  

·   Have a social attitude: You simply cannot exist or work in all by yourself. You cannot be a loner; on the contrary, you should build good and long-term relationships. There is no way that you can succeed without the support of others. The foregoing calls for understanding your colleagues and sharing common principles with them. It is important that you do not move around with airs about yourself or encourage sycophancy in any form. Any attempt to exert your authority in a negative manner will never pay you dividends. It is not that career success cannot come to you otherwise, but then your career path will be a bumpy ride, leaving you exhausted and discontented at your end-point.

·   Don’t buckle at all: When you are clear about your aims and ambitions, you have to be vigorous and forceful to safeguard your boundaries, value your priorities and identify the fundamentals of advancement. There are many people who know what they stand for and seek in life, but when it comes to taking initiative or a step forward, they become reluctant. The reasons for hesitation can be many, but the fact is that you need to suppress your fretfulness to be able to come out strong and hardy enough to defend your interests and when required, demand your whatever is due to you.  

·   Transform your edginess into inspiration: All feelings of apprehensions, harassment and defenselessness are disadvantageous to your career interests. It is vital that you learn to exhibit your competence, work sincerely and discharge your duties well. Any failure that you meet should be taken positively so that your move forward is unhindered. At your workplace, there will be a horde of influences on you and your performance; and you should regard all of them as learning experiences. In case you do not and adopt a meek or confrontational attitude, there will be no advantage that will accrue to you. You have to discover ways and means to convert your edginess into inspiration.

·   Maintain your ardour and devotion: You should be robust enough to maintain your calm and emerge resilient after most difficult times. It is not at all difficult to generate upbeat situations for yourself, even when everybody around you point fingers at or have reservations about you. Well, that calls for being daring and enterprising. You should view things in the correct perspective, apply midterm corrections where necessary, and solicit assistance when inescapable. In other words, you should give your word to your objectives and make certain that you shed all rigidity. There is no denying the fact that successful people always make efforts to know about their shortcomings and direct efforts to overcome them.

Of all the things you can do to have a successful career, the one which always wins out is hard work. You need to take your career seriously and do nothing that can sabotage it. Your success will always be contingent in a very large measure upon your individual initiative and exertion.