Everyone dreams of having a highly successful career that they enjoy and that provides them with the successful life they desire. Far too many of us, though, end up settling short when it comes to career success, working jobs we don’t enjoy for less money than we’d like to have.
The good news is that having a successful career is something that is largely under your own control.
When we think about our career, friendship, and other aspects of our lives, our minds go cray and blank. If you've been there, you know what I'm talking about; otherwise, brace yourself because you're about to face that phase.
For GenZ and millennials going through their education or professional journey, here are some takeaways:
Tip #1: Find people who are nothing like you and learn from them
Go back to the first day of college, job or any social event. Our natural instinct in social situations is to find people similar to us. We want to belong to a certain group aka our tribe. People we can relate to. People who think like us. But being in a circle of people who are identical to us doesn't promote learning. "You will never learn anything from someone who agrees with you. Consciously, spend time with people who are different from you. Make diverse friends, talk to more people, understand what it is that they know you don't."
Tip #2: Growth stops when complaining starts
If we draw a comparison at any given point, most of us will find that we are quite privileged. We are a sum total of all the opportunities that our parents' hard work opened for us. It's easy to feel entitled and believe that the world owes us power, money, degree or anything at all. Just because something worked once, doesn't mean it always will. In order to succeed, we truly have to stop cribbing and take control of our life. "The day you start complaining, you stop growing. The minute we feel we deserve something, we feel entitled. The truth is we don't deserve anything in life. We are where we are in life because we were just plain lucky."
Tip #3 Comfort breeds mediocrity
It's very easy for us to believe that life's purpose is to make life comfortable. With everything becoming one-click we are used to having convenience at our fingertips. Everything around us is designed to give us comfort and comfort creates complacency. Living in comfort is not the right way to think about life. When feedback is anything less than positive it can often be a tough pill to swallow.
However, asking for and truly listening to feedback is one of the quickest ways to hone your skills and progress in your career.
No matter where you are in your career, there are always going to be people who have a unique perspective to offer or who may know more about a particular topic than you.
Listening to their feedback regarding your work, honestly evaluating whether what they are saying is true and useful, and putting what you learn into practice is sure to help you grow in your chosen career.
"The most successful people, people who inspire you, people you'd want to be are on a constant daily basis taking the path of maximum resistance. They are challenging their fear and whatever they believe in because that's the only way to change your orbit".
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