Common thought patterns that create failure and how to transform them to accelerate your career.
We have all heard the familiar saying “Find the job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life,” and then spent countless hours rummaging through job postings for the one that describes, word for word, what we love. Where is that job that basically spells out your name as the job title? Yet, in reality, you probably already have your dream job. It might just be covered up by the wrong thoughts.
The path to fulfilling your career dreams, while rewarding, can also be full of speed bumps. It can be very easy to find yourself stuck in a negative mind set, yet a quick change from negative to positive thinking will allow you to immediately find fulfillment in your current career and guarantee that you will reach long term success. The following guide will help you take those negative thoughts and patterns harmful to your professional wellbeing and transform them into positive ones that are certain to improve your current career.
Assessing Your Work
When working on a new project or toward a new goal, you might often set your goals on perfection and identifying anything less than perfect as failure. Yet our world is full people, things, places, and events that are imperfect, but still successful. Aspiring only to reach perfection is simply setting you up for failure. Instead, adjust the evaluation methods you use to assess your level of success rather than your level of perfection.
Accepting Responsibility
When approaching the important things in life, a successful person takes responsibility and action, rather than just leaving it up to fate. To achieve your career goals, you must do the same. All too often professionals use poor luck as an excuse for a project or deal that failed. In addition, some also attribute their success to “good luck.” Luck in both cases eventually creates failure. Next time, rather than blaming a failure on luck, identify what you could have done better and what actions you will take to fix the situation. In addition, when you succeed, be proud of your accomplishment and use what you learned to further your career.
Teaming Up With the Competition
Today’s market is full of competition, whether it is the other applicants for the job, that colleague that is also up for a promotion, or another company in your same market. Many professionals often confuse these competitors as enemies. In order for you to succeed, the “enemy” must fail. This mind set not only creates a negative atmosphere, it also can be limiting. Great ideas are inspired by competition, and many great business partnerships are a joining of two competitors. Thus if you only view your competition as an enemy, you will miss the ideas your competition can inspire and even the possibilities you both possess at a team.
Defining Your Goals
All too often, especially in the workplace, we can allow others’ perceptions of us to determine our own self worth. For example, you might put that extra pressure to meet standards or display an outward success to avoid having others think negatively of you. As a result of constantly trying to achieve others’ expectations of you, you will fail to achieve your own goals. Rather than allowing others’ opinions define you, find your own self worth. Take control; set your own expectations for yourself and your career. This will not only lead you to personal satisfaction, but also allow you to find a career that you enjoy and will be successful in.
All too many professionals spend a great deal of time transferring between jobs, looking to fulfill their career dreams. Yet, they have actually abandoned it in the search. Use these simple changes in thought patterns to help you prevent this mistake by breaking the limiting beliefs you have placed on yourself, the people around you, and your current career so that you can transform your job into your dream career.
Stop dwelling on excuses on why you have not reached success and start focusing on your talents, small triumphs, capabilities, accomplishments, and career goals. Your attitude determines whether you achieve your dreams.
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