Exceed Your Career Goals

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Exceed Your Career Goals
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• Life is what happens to you while you are busy
  making other plans. Simply put, when you stop
  focusing on those things that matter most to you
  and what you believe in - then you allow life to
  pass you by. Do you strive to be relevant as a
  leader, business owner or entrepreneur - or do
  you allow the marketplace and what others want
  you to be dictate your career destiny?

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Exceed your Career goals

• We all have career aspirations to achieve yet
  many of us do not hold ourselves accountable
  enough to build the right foundation to achieve
  our aspirations.
• Accomplishing goals, whether personal or
  professional, is often difficult. To begin with,
  you have to commit to goal setting - which many
  people would rather have others do for them.
  People may want to improve their lives and
  careers but dont always know how to start the
  journey. Others are fortunate enough to be
  awakened when least expected -- to discover the
  gifts (unique talent) bestowed upon them. When
  you experience the latter, it feels as if you
  have a secret that you are reluctant to share
  because you believe that no one will understand
  or appreciate the magnitude of this defining
  moment.

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• Unfortunately, we have a lot of talented people
  in the workplace who - because they lack courage
  - have become jaded by others that were envious,
  disrupted their goals, and never had their best
  interests at heart. As a result, these people
  have stopped believing in themselves and instead
  only listen and act upon what others need from
  them - for the benefit of others rather than the
  advancement of themselves. This explains
• Why so many people would rather be accountable to
  do for others - rather than think for themselves.
• Why leaders have become followers and have lost
  their identity in the process.
• Why dreams are broken, momentum is easily lost,
  and progress slows down.
• Why people are so skeptical and earning trust is
  so difficult.
• Why there is more animosity, remorse and anger in
  the world.and so on.

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• If you are leader, your responsibilities are to
  open doors and create opportunities for those who
  have earned it. Stop slowing down progress and
  allow individuality to take flight. Lets face
  it, the workplace and the marketplace are telling
  us that it is becoming less about the business
  defining the individual and much more about the
  individual defining the business. What are you
  doing to allow others to discover their gifts and
  reach their full potential?
• Opportunities are everywhere, but few have eyes
  to see them.
• To assure that you not only see and seize
  previously unseen opportunities - but also avoid
  the traps of complacency along the way - here are
  eight ways to exceed your aspirations throughout
  your career and lifes journey.

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1. Dont Allow Negative Judgment to Disrupt Your
Goals

• The only one that stands in your way - is
  yourself. Dont ever second-guess your ability
  and capabilities. Life is about confronting
  constant disappointments. Not everyone will value
  you or understand why they should. Rather than
  get frustrated, take a moment to understand their
  different perspectives. Write these down and
  create a journal perhaps you will find a common
  thread over time as to why you are being
  negatively judged. Appreciate feedback, whether
  good or bad - and learn from it. But never let it
  disrupt your focus, attitude and motivations.

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2. Take Ownership and Strive To Be Relevant

• Most people become irrelevant in their careers
  because they listen to those that dont
  understand what makes them unique and give them
  distinction. This is why it is incumbent upon you
  to take ownership of your career by doing
  everything possible to outwork and outsmart
  everyone else. This will require you to challenge
  the status quo and become more mindful about whom
  you associate yourself with.
• Taking ownership requires action. The action you
  take in pursuit of being relevant may often be
  met with failure, envy and misunderstanding of
  your points of view. Ive experienced many times
  throughout my career that the best measurement of
  success in your pursuit of relevancy - is when
  the marketplace moves in your favor. In other
  words, the perspectives you share become valued -
  and you are welcomed into ecosystems where what
  makes you relevant equals the demand you were
  seeking to create.
• When seeking to be relevant, you will either
  create new marketplace demand or you will latch
  onto a marketplace segment that is still
  maturing. If you dont experience either, you are
  off track. But never stop believing in yourself
  and never ignore what the marketplace is telling
  you.

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3. Work Harder and Smarter Than Everyone Else

• Get your hands dirty and learn to work harder
  than your competitors so they can never outsmart
  your efforts. Be courageous and take well-thought
  out chances. Allow risk to be your best friend.
  Aspirations fade when people are tempted to
  give-up and stop trying. Its much like the
  person that has a new years resolution to assume
  a healthier diet but cant stay away from the
  temptations of fast-food.
• Success isnt easy. Being significant is even
  harder. To achieve both, you need to stay focused
  and work harder to understand everything about
  the goals and aspirations you seek to achieve.
  You need to become a subject matter expert to
  know your competition and to understand why
  people have failed in the past with similar
  ambitions. If you do your research, you will know
  everything you need to know to earn the
  credibility and respect necessary to break down
  barriers of doubt - as you begin to build bridges
  of hope and see opportunities previously unseen.

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4. Stay Away From Envious People

• Most people spend their lives battling the gulf
  between assimilation and authenticity. They
  struggle with being more of what others want them
  to be - rather than what they seek to be
  themselves. Envy has the ability to cloud your
  mind and make you question your own intentions.
  Dont let envy define your future or sway your
  aspirations.
• Dealing with envy is oftentimes a validation that
  you are on the right path towards achieving your
  aspirations. It is an indicator that you are
  evolving - and as such you will be confronted by
  people who are not.
• As you begin to build momentum, you will know who
  has your back and your best interests at heart.
  When you detect envy, navigate around it so it
  doesnt become a distraction. The key is to
  remove yourself from it quickly before it clouds
  your decisions and slows your progress down.

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5. Associate Yourself with People That Genuinely
Have Your Back

• Stay away from leeches and loafers (the envious
  ones) and learn to gravitate to the leaders and
  lifters (those who genuinely have your back).
  Ive learned that in business and in life that
  you cant go at success alone. Its impossible.
  You have to surround yourself with people that
  have your best interests at heart. For they are
  the ones that will be the most objective about
  telling you the truth and guiding you in the
  right direction.
• The types of relationships you have are
  indicative of your level of success. If you
  associate yourself with those that pull you down,
  rather than lift you up - you will find it
  difficult to evolve and achieve your aspirations.
  In the end, its all about people and you must
  know yourself well enough to be a good judge of
  character - to make the right decisions between
  the relationships you choose to invest in long
  term and those that dont add any real value.

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6. Diversity of Thought Is Constructive Disruption

• To exceed your aspirations, you may have to
  choose unconventional ways to get to your desired
  end game. I am not referring to unethical acts -
  but rather the ability to connect what appears to
  be unrelated into a well thought-out cohesive
  plan.
• For example, how many times have you dealt with
  long-standing employees that are so set in their
  ways that it makes it difficult to introduce new
  ideas and ideals? These days, quite frequently!
  These are the types of people that dont value
  differences and are against new ways of thinking.
  They are comfortable doing things the way theyve
  been done for years and maintaining the status
  quo.
• Instead, embrace diversity of thought and be a
  constructive disruptor. Dont allow people to
  confuse diversity of thought as a form of
  disorganized thinking. It is only disorganized to
  those that have grown complacent and lack courage
  to challenge the status quo. You cant be
  aspirational without being a constructive
  disruptor.

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7. Wisdom Prevails During Times of Adversity

• How you respond when faced with adversity is what
  defines your ability to achieve your career
  aspirations. Adversity is very big when it is all
  you can see. But it is very small when in the
  presence of all else that surrounds you. The key
  to overcoming adverse circumstances is a matter
  of focus. Zoom in on it and you will see no
  opportunity. Zoom out and you will see it in the
  full context of all else that surrounds you - and
  many opportunities previously unseen will come
  into view.
• Adversity is a matter of perspective. Its about
  tapping your wisdom (knowing what to do with the
  insights and knowledge that you have) to make the
  right decisions, keep the right attitude, and
  deal with complex circumstances and diversity of
  thought.
• Successful people have mastered the ability to
  think on their feet by allowing their wisdom to
  prevail during times of adversity.

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8. Dont allow others Ignorance to Misguide You

• Dont ever allow the ignorance of others to
  misguide you - or assume that someone who has an
  important title or works for a large company has
  all of the answers. Oftentimes they know a lot
  less than you might think.
• For example, think of those who tout their
  accomplishments and act with a sense of
  entitlement - as if they made the investments
  with their own money, assumed all of the risk,
  and did all of the thinking that led to a
  particular success story. Ive learned that many
  executives have artificial power that is being
  lent to them by the organization (or brand) they
  serve. The position and role they assume has the
  power, not necessarily the person occupying it.
• With this in mind, never stop testing your ideas
  and ideals - or start letting other peoples
  ignorance get in the way of achieving and
  exceeding your career aspirations.
• I am absolutely convinced that everyone has the
  ability to be good - if not great at something.
  But I am equally certain that most people are
  thrown off-course and lack the courage to get
  back on track and define the course that will
  enable them to strengthen the belief, self-trust
  and potential in themselves. Every successful
  person has had to make a choice to be courageous.
  And every courageous person opens themselves up
  to the opportunity to exceed their goals and
  aspirations - by not only being successful, but
  significant.

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