How to succeed in your career


Career Success Tip: The Zen Way

Many young executives like to ask for career
success tips. I usually start by sayingThis is an important career success tip. Your
career success doesn't come in a day. Yet,career like many things in life cannot be
day-in day-out I see young people enteringrushed. You succeed by not rushing nor lazing
the working life pushing themselves as ifoff. Your career success comes to you when
they will make CEO in a year. They have ayou do not rush yourself through it. But this
tendency to compare their progress with theiralso means you do not laze off. When you rush
contemporaries. You should not and must notyou start to be careless. You forget the
compare your career success to yourbasic important steps in the race for your
contemporaries.career success. If you sprint through at this
early phase, you risk overdoing it. On the
If you ask me, what is career success?other hand, if you laze off ? you won't put
Frankly, I don't have the answer. But, I canin the appropriate effort needed for success.
give you a career success tip that works forFor success to happen, you need to be
me. However, ultimately only you can answermoderate in your pursuit. That would be
?what is career success?? because only youcareer success tip for you. There is a
can seek. No one can do it for you. It is tosaying:
be defined by your own values and principles
in life. You would have to define what isHurrying  makes  things  too  tight,
career success for yourself. It means
different things for different people. And itSlacking  off  lets  things  get  too  loose,
is  your  career  goals.
By  not  hurrying  and  not  slacking  off,
The first step is to ask yourself ?What is
career success??. It is not a question youWe  can  succeed  at  what  we  do.
should mull over daily. You will have to
spend time thinking about this. The answerIn this race, you are your own competitor. To
will not come easy. Ask yourself thatend this career success tip, I leave you with
question, and then let it float in your mindthis  thought  from  Dao  De  Ching:
for however long it takes - never force the
answer.He who knows other men is discerning, he who
knows  himself  is  intelligent.
Remind yourself this - if your career is a
marathon, then it includes the preparationHe who overcomes other is strong; he who
for the race - the warm ups, the stretches,overcomes  himself  is  mighty.
the strength exercises, the stamina building,
the constant practice runs. Constant effortHe  who  is  satisfied  with his lot is rich.
is what will eventually get a positive
response.  And  that  response  is  success.He who goes on acting with energy has a firm
will.
My biggest fear looking at many young first
job executives is that a lot of them embarkHe who does not fail in the requirements of
on this marathon and end up hurtinghis  position,  continues  long.
themselves. They hurt themselves because
instead of warming up and stretching, theyHe who dies and yet does not perish, has
sprint. Eventually they end up injured,longevity.
taking  months  and  years  to  recuperate.



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