THE MAKING OF SUCCESSFUL CAREER (2)

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Support your goals with these seven pillars of successful planning:

Pace – You know your passion and the destination you are heading towards, so get well intimately and ultimately connected with them (your passion and destination) to get starting the procedures of goal setting. The goals you are setting must be MEASURABLE. The goals must be those that are worthwhile. They must be assessable to your passion. Your goals must be set to agree to the same motion with your mission per action.

Period – Your goals must be TIME FRAMED – timely and time-bound. In setting your goals, you must develop the ability of thinking relationally. You must be able to see ahead the present and be able to see relationship between seemingly disjointed events and information. (Discovery they say, is seen what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought). This will allow you to discover opportunities in time thus, setting goals to time.

Precision – In your goal setting enterprise, you most be as meticulous as possible. Set goals that are CLEAR AND PRECISE. Analogically, “I want to take enough water daily this month” this is not clear enough (I want to) and not precise (enough water). Do not set goal of this kind, rather “I shall take seven cups of water daily this month” (“shall” and “seven” make this goal clear and precise respectively). Therefore, your goals must be clear enough to pinpoint precision.

Practicability – Impossible is nothing. However, your goals must not be abstract; they must be LOGICAL AND FEASIBLE. Although, I admonish people to dare impossibility and attain the unattainable but in goal setting you must mind your capacity and qualities at hand. Set goals that are answerable to your passion.

Penning – Properly considering all these aforementioned pillars, your goals are now well developed to comfortably permit succinct enumeration. Mind you, before applying all these aforementioned pillars you must have made a rough list of the goals – the list you are going to weigh above pillars with. That is your goals must be PENNABLE right from the out set. Now the rough list is well scrutinized, write your goals down boldly and orderly.

Practice – Now your goals are ready. For what? ACTION! Charge your being for efficient and result-oriented action. Action is the knock that drives in the nail of accomplishment in one’s career. Act on those well-developed goals one after the other with focus, perseverance, patience, persistence and determination. That is one step at a time. Your passion can’t wait any longer. It is dying for display. Act now! Act right!

Prayer – “Work and pray.” Believe in yourself. However, your ability alone is not enough. Therefore, support your goals and actions with DIVINE BACKING and have faith. Prayer is the master key that locks and unlocks any door that proofs thwarting.

PREPARED
The undisputable fact is that we are in the computer age; where little recognition is attributed to physical labor, rather much accolades go with mental proficiency. However, the quality upstairs informs the physical performance. The skills you are equipped with is the brain for your career. It determines your productivity and your portion in your career. Therefore, don’t you think they need to be developed and you need to acquire more?

Skill acquisition is the gaining and the development of physical and mental proficiency for improved, refined and timely productive accomplishments in one’s endeavor. Without the appropriate skills, one remains below the ladder in his career. The world today belongs to the relative thinkers and refined performers. Skill acquisition is the tonic one takes to fortify himself with the required competence in his career. Skill acquisition holds the package that will deliver one with the confidence needed to triumph in his career. Attend seminars, workshops, conference and take professional courses that are relevant to your career. Make every experience educational. Seek information; it is the strength of your career. Listen to news, read newspapers, magazines, biographies, books, surfing the internet and associate. By these you are replete with information. Information harness you easily and timely with opportunities while how equipped (skillful) you are determines how effective you convert them to accomplishments.

So, be informed today and be equipped with required and relevant skills, then you are great in your career.

PACT
Of every resource, human is the greatest – for it opens doors to every other resource. Therefore, you must build mutual links with other positive minds. Develop upwardly motivated networks. These (links) are the connective tissues of your career that connect you and your passion with other destiny-conscious folks for vibrant and mutually rewarding relationship. Develop the habit of moving towards places where onward mobile folks relate. Places like seminars, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, concerts, logical ceremonies, right restaurants, constructive associations, cinemas and the like.

Success has a way of connecting with one another. If you want to become an enviable achiever in your career, harness a means of forming alliance with purpose-conscious people and build extensive network where you can have access to knowledge, ideas, constructive advices, inspirations, motivations and empowerments that will move you up the ladder of success to fulfillment palace in your career.

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