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Albert Einstein, the dishonest Newton ?!
Copyright 2011 Vincent Wilmot
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How Do You Define Career Success?
Why is this question important? One of the most important career
and life-planning activities you can engage in is finding your
own definitions or models of success. This is vitally important
for a number of reasons: If you haven't done this, how do you
know what's best for you? How can you make career decisions if
you aren't crystal clear about how you define success? How can
you be happy if you don't know when you're successful?
If this question is relevant to you right now... There is never
a bad time to discover and be clear on your definition of
success. Today's economic realities make the timing even better.
If your career hasn't gone according to plan, or even if it has,
reexamine what it is you actually want. Doing so can make you a
lot happier.
Successful -- on Whose Terms? If you haven't taken the time to
define it, success has already been defined for you. You're
already following models of career and life success. The
question is whether they are your own, or ones you inherited.
One of your greatest career challenges is identifying goals and
definitions of success that are true to you rather than ones you
inherited from family, society and other outside forces. Your
current model of success may or may not work for you. The
important thing is understanding your assumptions and
questioning them.
If you follow a path to success that isn't your own, you may
achieve your goals, but when you arrive at your destination, you
may not feel successful or fulfilled at all.
Keep in mind that your existing job may hold the key to your
happiness. For example, if you were to discover that making your
customers happy was the one thing that defines and inspires you,
what would that do to your focus and state of mind?
Choose Your Own Definition of Success You have the power to
reaffirm existing models or adopt new models of success. All it
takes is some honest thinking, clarity of purpose and the
discipline to stay true to your values in the long run.
Accept There Are Always Alternatives. The very fact that so many
of us have not questioned the
paths we are on speaks to a lack
of awareness or acceptance of alternate paths. There have never
been more options or valid ways of defining career and life
success.
Examine Your Path. Do you love what you do? Do you do fantastic
work as a result? Does your work complement your personal and
family life or detract from it? Are you excited about your
vision of the future? Is this your best use of your precious
gifts and time?
Create Some Quiet, Introspective Time. Ask yourself these
questions: What makes me happy? How do I feel? What do I want?
And then, answer a question from the coaching school
CoachVille.com, "I know how successful I am by how (fill in the
blank)." The answers to this question will point you in the
right direction. You can have several definitions of success as
long as they don't contradict each other.
Refine Your Responses. Ask yourself "why?" and "is that what I
really want?" after each response to the statement until each
rings true. For example, if your first response was, "I'll know
I am successful when I am a millionaire," ask yourself why you
want to be a millionaire. You might, for example, find out that
success for you is to have the freedom to use your time as you
wish, or the ability to travel or be rid of financial worries.
This process may lead you to make other decisions in your life
that will help you reach your goal.
Test Your Responses with People Who Know You Really Well. Do
they ring true?
One definition of success that puts this philosophy into simple
words comes from American author Christopher Morley, who wrote:
"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in
your own way."
Being clear about how you define success will reap immeasurable
rewards.
About the author:
Ian Christie is a career coach, entrepreneur, former Monster.com
Sr. Director & former executive recruiter. Ian is a career
expert with many published articles and media interviews. Visit
BoldCareer for free career
resources & personalized career services.
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