7 Power Steps to
Your Dream Career
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Build
on your strengths and polish them to sheer perfection. For instance if you
are a good writer and enjoy writing… well polish this skill… write even
better. Get the best writing courses out there…. Become the best that you
can be... invest in your education. Invest in your personal development.
This is the best and most profitable investment you will ever make.
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You
are in business for yourself. If it is a job, you are selling your
services to your employer, and you have only one client; While in a
business you may have several clients. So whether you are doing a job
search, or searching for your first client, the concept is the same: You
are proactively selling yourself. Learn some marketing and persuasive
communication skills.
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Find out what and how other successful people in your
career of choice have 'done it' and model their success. For instance if
you are planning to be a copywriter... Find what courses the top people in
your industry have taken and take them, find out the books they have read
and read them, find out the professional associations and clubs they
belong to... and join those very same associations, find the books and
courses those people have written and read them and follow through step by
step... try to cultivate the same skills, abilities, methods of business.
Here don't try to re-invent the wheel, but try to build upon it... Model
all the successful elements and leave out all the mistakes and negative
aspects.
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Find mentors to guide you along the way... It is a well
known fact that your total income is an average of your 5 closest
acquaintances... So to move forward you need to find people who are much
further along in your chosen field of business, and use them as mentors.
Meet with them from time to time, listen to their experiences, ask for
their advise, and use them as coaches to referee your business.
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Reconnect with your 'inner self' and learn to follow your
intuition and live your own values. Of course you are going to be the best
that you can be, you are going to model the top most professionals in your
chosen career field, you are going to get mentored by people more
successful than you are...
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But always remember: you are who you are, you have got a
whole set of values and inner truths inherently built into your DNA, so
before taking any actions always reconnect with your deepest values and
follow your own insights and intuitions. These always point you in your
true path...
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Remember, even the most successful people have got there
own limitations and values they live by... these may not be right for
you... for instance famous short sighted words of celebrities abound for
eg. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H.
Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899; or "Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society,
1895 ... So use your own insights, intuitions and values as your guiding
light.
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Expect to be successful... Your beliefs and attitude
count. Yes, almost without fail, what you expect is what you get. If you
expect success, you will be successful and vice versa. If you don't
believe this concept... try it even for just one day, expect to be
successful and experience the best every moment of that day and you will
be amazed at how your day turns out... So however outrageous this may
sound, monitor your thoughts and beliefs, and try to replace all negatives
with positives. Believe in yourself and you will be successful.
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Take action along the above lines. Merely dreaming or
planning will not get you there. You need to start taking action… one
small step at a time. Prepare a list of action steps and work through your
list slowly but surely.
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Author Shahnaz Rauf is a prolific writer with vast experience and interests.
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