Well, I don’t know how you
are projecting your future...How you want to live your life. Or your biggest
failures or misfortunes. However, whether you choose to live your life the way
you wanted or you decide to have a complete control over your life. The question is always the same. In my earlier age, I used to think that the only thing a person needs in life
is success.
The question that often stares at us each time we are planning a go is usually, how successful we’re going to end at. It would seem uneasy making a decision, being optimistic, anyway, we now go ahead.
The thought
“how to succeed in life” could said to be the most nurtured thought in our
minds. Having born into a poor family, I had no choice rather than to study and
research how to succeed in life. Before my twenties, I had saved more for the
future although I know then that the future is bright. However, the major key
to succeeding in situations like these is a better understanding of reality.
The vast majority of the career advice out there might completely be wrong.
Nevertheless, you can tell by the fact that the vast majority of people aren't
particularly successful! Therefore, here
are a few facts I used you should keep in mind when planning your next move:
- Passion is largely a function of how much time you've invested in something. There's this myth that passion is somehow innate,
- that we're born with some specific thing we love. That's really not true and the science overwhelmingly suggests that the more you do something, the better you get and the more you enjoy it.
- Pending to such a situation a better understanding of reality, the vast majority of the career advice out there might not be wrong (as you can equally tell by the fact that the vast majority of people are (partially) successful!) anyway. Therefore, the above is important facts you should keep in mind when planning your next move. Nonsense like that-find something that would be valuable to the people around you, get good at it, and repeat.
- The key to loving your job and being successful is developing rare and valuable skills. Besides enjoying the process, the other factors that make a job fun have to do with how much freedom you have at work, how fast you're growing, and whether you like the people you work with.
- The way to get all these things is simply to get very good at what you do, and for that—the best way to develop valuable skills is through small shifts, not major career changes. Look around your workplace and try to find needs that aren't being met, even if they're not strictly part of your job.
- If your carrier is a sales executive, I know many sales people tend to be bad with technology, so if you look into the data and learn some programming you could potentially automate many simple tasks, which in turn would provide a lot of value.
- In addition, you could focus more on communicating internally with other people in your company, trying to help them understand what makes a product easy to sell and what customers want. These would gradually lead to career shifts, for example, into sales software development or product management. Nevertheless, it is much better to make the shifts gradually, because you will be able to build upon your previous experience rather than start from scratch.
Don not focus on a detailed career plan. This is a bad move because it
takes you away from the near-term opportunities that could be useful to you. If
it turns out your skills could be highly useful as a programmer, you should
head in that direction.
Nevertheless,
if the best opportunity is in financial sales, you should do that. Do not
focuses on a 20-year or even 5-year plan...instead, try to understand the needs
of the companies/markets around you and develop the skills to satisfy them? Being adaptable to cut to the chase, you start with goal
setting and goal achieving.
