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Don’t Make Me Think

“ C’s” of career success

1 - Curiosity - It was the curiosity of knowing the reason behind the fall of an apple which made Isaac Newton invent the Laws of Motion. Yes Curiosity is the key.If you’re not interested in what you do – and you don’t stay actively interested – you’re unlikely to enjoy a truly successful career.o succeed and keep succeeding requires you to keep learning, stretching and developing – and that takes curiosity. Whatever you do, if you want to do it well, be curious… about yourself, about the world, about other people… about change, developments, the future, growing opportunities. Without curiosity, careers quickly become stagnant.
2 - Clarity - Curiosity will let you learn and grow but clarity will let you meet your deadline faster.In short clarity is a “ROADMAP”.Many people we met who were endlessly curious about the world – so many interests, so little time… but also so
little direction. Which means lots of learning, but little forward motion.To make effective use of your time and energy, everyone is going to need some clarity. You need to have a clear vision of yourself, your strengths, values, motivators and skills; to know what will work for you. You also need a clear vision of your direction; what’s out there, what industries or areas excite you, what opportunities exist – where you’re headed.
3 - Courage - Everyone requires courage to begin something. Courage is the only secret that allows us to act despite your fears. Courage gives us the ability to put aside our fear of failure and take the first steps.Courage pushes us out of our comfort zone and helps us in moving and taking challenges.
4 - Commitment - When you only commit to the people and things that are truly important to you, your career, the results are that your relationships will improve, you will be more successful in achieving your goals, and you'll have more time to enjoy your journey. Your commitment does not end with the decision!
5- Communication - Good Communication skills are important and skills are essential to allow others and yourself to understand information more accurately and quickly.Its a tool in achieving productivity,building relationships and facilitate innovation.
6 - Competitiveness - Enhance your marketability. It is important to stand out in front of employers and graduate schools. There are multiple ways to stand out, ranging from the strength of one’s resumé to interviewing skills.
7 - Connections- Connecting with alumni and employers. It’s important to develop relationships with people on campus. This doesn’t mean creating artificial relationships with people based on how you presume they can benefit you in the future, but developing genuine connections around similar interests or ideas.
Disclaimer - The opinions expressed above are sourced from various study materials and compiled for the betterment of knowledge.However we have tried our best to provide the best which suits individual requirements.

Resistance and its Importance.

Every individual always works towards choosing things to do for the betterment of life and success but sometimes it is essential to put a thought on thinking what an individual should refrain himself from?

1. Negativity: There is tremendous pressure to become negative. Most of the media that come in through your senses is negative. If you don’t protect yourself you can become cynical, skeptical, and pessimistic. Resist negativity in all of its forms and maintain a positive attitude.
2. Apathy: In an age of nihilism, many struggle with finding meaning and purpose, becoming apathetic and not believing that anything matters. The reason you are given a life is so you can decide for yourself what matters and make the difference you want to make.
3. Complacency: A little bit of success can cause one to rest on their laurels being too satisfied with where they are and missing the opportunity to reach their full potential. Pleased is fine, satisfied is not.
4. Fear: Fear provides one of two things. It provides a reason to fly away or a reason to fight. Resisting the desire to turn away and step into your fear is courage and it is all that is necessary to turn fear into fuel.
5. Judgment: Resist jousting others harshly and look on them instead with Compassion. Then offer yourself that same lack of judgment. Unless you have a time machine, there is nothing you can do about your past, so there is no reason to live there.
6. Comfort: Humans are designed to seek pleasure and avoid pain – not only pain but discomfort. But the price of success and happiness is effort. It’s not that pleasure is all bad, just that too much of good is a bad thing. The laws of success require that you do the hard work of planting seeds if you are to yield your harvest.
7. Entertainment: Variety. Distraction. Novelty. You are hard-wired to seek these things, and in a world of infinite distractions, entertainment is always present and always available. There is nothing inherently wrong with entertainment and distraction, but you must resist allowing it to dominate your time and energy.
8. Ingratitude: You have much for which to be grateful. But it is easy to take for granted the things for which you should be grateful. When you are truly grateful, you will appreciate the bad with the good. the cold with the warmth, and the struggle with the success. Resist ingratitude.
9. Procrastination: Much of the work you put off should be done now. By putting it off, you reduce the time you have to produce the best result possible. You increase the stress. At some point, you need to do something with a tight deadline, and the fact that you have put off doing other work brings a sense of being overwhelmed. Fight the desire to push things into the future that should be done now.
10. Excuses: You must resist absolving your responsibility for that which you are responsible for. By taking responsibility you empower yourself, and you create trust in others. You own the outcomes you are responsible for generating.
Disclaimer - The opinions expressed above are sourced from various study materials and compiled for the betterment of knowledge.However we have tried our best to provide the best which suits individual requirements.

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