Essential rules for achieving a successful career

Everyone has a dream that they strive to achieve during their career. Some reach their goal and succeed, others don’t. There are and always will be many factors that cannot be controlled in your career path. Still, there is that one person you should always rely on -  on yourself. However, listening to your intuition and promoting your exquisite skills won’t always be enough to achieve a goal. In other words, you will have to constantly ameliorate your existing skills and acquire new ones in order to grow professionally.

Here are a few essential rules to achieving career success:

1. Prioritize your goals

The first step is to sort out your goals and prioritize them. In your career, there are two types of goals, those that call for your prompt attention, and those that can significantly change your life. You need to focus on the positive results of these goals in order to achieve them. For example, the first type of goal is an unpaid bill, which, after being paid, won’t require your attention. On the other hand, getting a new job or a promotion can have effects on your life in the long run. Therefore, it is crucial to concentrate on both goals.

2. Discipline, discipline and discipline

The key to achieving any goal is discipline. No matter how difficult a particular goal is to achieve, without discipline, there is no win. Procrastination is our worst enemy, especially in business. After prioritizing, it’s important not to let insignificant things get the best of us. As we know, time is money and there is nothing worse than wasted time on trivial tasks or useless projects. The truth is that we could spend hours doing these tasks, only to later realize that we wasted energy and time. Therefore, if you are not disciplined, it’s high time you learned this skill. 

3. Have a trusting team

Successful people don’t reach their goals on their own; on the contrary, they have a trusting team behind them. When building a team, consider what type of people you want to work with. You want to be surrounded by colleagues who share your ideas, your vision, and your values. Moreover, there are various benefits of teamwork in the workplace. A good team can help you bounce off ideas, find new solutions to a problem, and, in the end, make the work environment more productive as well as dynamic. For that reason, when building a team, choose carefully.

4. Self-Improvement

Many successful people possess leadership qualities. The fact is that especially nowadays, the importance of softs skills cannot be stressed enough, and this is something you won’t learn in college. Therefore, participate regularly in workshops, seminars or apply for a course in executive coaching in order to develop your leadership, communication skills and grow professionally. Check out some motivational speakers so as to do a self-introspection and put their methods into practice.  Reading books as well as articles on these topics shall give you a better insight, and you shall find that being successful means improving your skills.

5. Build trust with your customers

In the business, there is nothing more important than having a loyal customer. First, you have to get to know your customers, where they come from, in which direction they want your mutual collaboration to proceed. So, building trust with customers means more than just offering a good price. It means fulfilling your promises and not trying to cover up mistakes. In the end, your client’s feedback will either build or destroy your business. In case you are not able to fulfill the client’s demands, honesty is the best policy, and, because of it, the client will respect you more.

6. Offer quality, not quantity

If you really want the product that you are offering to get your client’s attention, don’t neglect its quality. This is the most important aspect of any product, and it is something you want to be proud of. High - quality products attract loyal customers and get good reviews, e.g. think about Apple’s products and their happy customers to whom the company owns its career success. If your product is original and of the best quality, then you will profit, as well as, attract more potential loyal customers. Therefore, always opt for quality as it is a key to your success.

A lot of passion, a lot of success

There is no goal that cannot be achieved with these rules and a lot of passion. Especially when you start putting these rules into practice, be passionate about your goals and how you will prioritize them. Be passionate about being disciplined. Believe in your team that shares the same goal as you. Be passionate about learning something new, growing, developing new skills. Value the relationship that you have with your customers. In the end, be passionate about the products, ideas, and services you offer to the world because that is how you become a success.

Author: Emily Wilson

 " Emily is a business psychologist with a passion for marketing. Researching, exploring and writing is her favorite thing to do. Besides that, she loves animals, music, and traveling"