Strategies To Achieve Greater Success In Your Current Job

By Author: Diane Armitage
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Do you feel as if you've reached the end of your dead-end job? Are you frustrated trying to reach new business goals or feel held back in achieving real project success?

Sometimes, we can get so overwhelmed with what's NOT working in our jobs that we shut down from looking at other options, possibilities and different actions to take to achieve our professional goals.

With mindful attention, focus and clarity on the business goals we wish to achieve, we can actually begin to see new answers and solutions in the very place we stand!

Decades ago, an African farmer got so caught up in the buzz of discovering diamond mines that he grew dissatisfied with the land he owned and tilled. Finally, he sold the property and spent the rest of his life searching for the gleaming gems that would turn his life and financial prosperity around.

Meanwhile, a few months after purchasing the property from this farmer, the new property owner stumbled across a large and unusual stone - it, of course, turned out to be a diamond. As it turned out, the property was loaded with acres of diamonds. Had this first farmer taken ...
... the time to study and learn about diamonds, he might have discovered that he was, indeed, standing in the middle of his own acres of diamonds.

As corporate success coach Earl Nightingale, once noted, When we have the wisdom and patience to intelligently and effectively explore the work in which we're now engaged, we usually find that it contains the riches we seek, whether financial or intangible, or both.

Before you sell the farm and go running off to what you think might be more promising, be sure to give yourself the time to get very clear on the professional goal setting you have, and then explore new solutions and actions that can actually see you achieving that goal right now.

When you feel more open minded about possible options, turn your attention to what you do in your daily work activities now. What are you doing daily to reach that business goal? What action steps are you taking each and every day toward your corporate success? Instead of focusing on where you are now (and all its limitations), focus ONLY on where you want to be, and continue taking daily, committed steps to achieving that end result.

As Earl Nightingale taught, achieving professional goals is never about time management - it's only and always about activity management. Time can't be managed. We can, however, manage our activities.

While there are many time management tools on today's market, consider investing in an ‘activity management tool instead. The Success Diary at TheSuccessDiary.com was actually built upon Earl Nightingale's principles of activity management. Whether you purchase the undated or the dated Success Diary, you'll find the ability to daily prioritize your goal-oriented actions so that you stay on course and fully committed to achieving your professional goals, even if your surroundings don't seem entirely conducive to your plan.

With the Success Diary's additional motivation, affirmations, corporate success tips and advice on goal development and project success, you will begin unearthing your own diamonds, and move forward to the success you most desire.

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