TIP #18: Like What You Do
Fast Company just came out with The 25 Top Jobs for 2005 . It's interesting to understand top jobs based on their index of "four categories: job growth, salary potential, education level, and room for innovation."
However, the biggest index, I believe, should be a personal one: find something you love to do. And if you do, you will do it well.
It's like Albert Schweitzer said, "Success is not the key to happiness. Hapiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful."
You see, you can't be winning at working if you don't like what you're doing, where you're doing it, or who you're doing it for. If what you do feels like work the majority of the time, you might want to think about why, and what you can do to change it.
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Posted by Nan Russell at 10:13 PM
January 20, 2005Thought for the Day
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." Norman Vincent Peale
Posted by Nan Russell at 06:22 PM
January 08, 2005TIP #17 Be a Managed Self
A fast way to differentiate yourself at work is to be a managed self ...
** When we are accountable to ourselves for ourselves, we are a managed self.
** When we hold ourselves responsible for our actions, results, and behaviors we are a managed self.
** When we have higher standards for ourselves than others hold us to, we are a managed self.
** When we create our own disciplines to enhance our personal effectiveness and results, we are a managed self.
** When we set and reach our own goals and then establish new ones, we are a managed self.
** When we are responsive to change and receptive to input, we are a managed self.
As we realize who we become in life is up to us, we change our thinking and our results.
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Posted by Nan Russell at 06:26 PM
January 04, 2005Thought for the Day
I collect quotes and proverbs. I came across this one the other day:
"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." Japanese Proverb
Posted by Nan Russell at 09:25 PM
