You’ve been working for years and still no opportunities that allow you to improve your career status. Then you see someone in your office that worked for a couple of months and had you under his or her command. You may be wondering whether a person is just lucky or not, but the thing is – it’s all because of you.
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Being successful in a certain field of career is not rocket science. There is no lucky charm for people who created opportunities and use it to grow as a career person. If you’re sick and tired of being unnoticed by your superiors even though you’re doing your job flawlessly, there might be something wrong. It may be from the work you produce, or how you affect others in your work field. It’s not destiny nor encrypted in someone’s gene pool.
Successful people know what it takes to make opportunities happen. If you change a few habits, people might be wondering how you emerged from a simple guy in the office to a successful person you can ever be.
Here are some of the things that might help you in making great opportunities that will suit your abilities.
Be Observant
Interact with your working environment. Being a snub will never help you in creating opportunities. Be curious and notice things that happen around you. That way, you’ll know more things about the people you work with and your work field. Know the responses and kinds of preparations that people value.
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Be knowledgeable about the things that can make processes and meetings more effective. You should also find out the way how to make people’s lives more comfortable, efficient, and meaningful.
Lastly, create plans without taking something away from others.If you try to be observant, you’ll become a natural resource to your colleagues. It will become natural for them to think of you when great opportunities arrive.
Value Your Job
Always bring the best out of you and be committed in completing tasks. Always remember that the results of what you do reflect how you feel when you were working on it. Most people, especially your boss, respond on how you value your job. People around you will value your presence more and look for opportunities where they can use your abilities.
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Even if you’re assigned to a dull and seemingly senseless task, assume that it’s a vital part of your company’s success. Your productivity contributes a big part in the whole process in the office. More productive means more chances to get something in the future.
Here are some tips to improve your productivity at work.
- Stop Multitasking. It's good but never better.
- Dont aim for perfection, instead get the job done.
- Always tick entries on your to-do list. Get things done and move forward.
- Eliminate distractions. This helps you to have a better focus with your tasks.
- Take exercise breaks. It's always a good thing to pump up and revitalize.
Be Sensitive
Everything you do – how you talk, look at people, and answer the phone, creates a reaction from people you might not even notice. As stated in the law of nature, everything you do will always have an impact to your surroundings. Always consider how you will affect other people from your decisions, or acts. This way, you can make work easier for others.
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Being sensitive is not something to be afraid of in fact it got some interesting benefits along with it.
- You get to feel the good stuff more deeply
- You can be very compassionate
- You can be very intuitive
- You get the ability to deeply embrace on new concepts
- You can be very creative
- It also motivates people to exercise self care
- You can be very mindful of what's around you
Opportunity is Everywhere
Successful people look at opportunities everywhere. You can do that too by looking for trends and ideas that will complement your skills and interests – create something that’s uniquely yours! Discover things that you can improve – like making thing more fun, efficient, effective, easier, and more. Get opportunities that will also benefit others and they will support you in taking advantage of a given opportunity.
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Being helpful is always good for others – and especially you. When other’s help you, offer you best skills as a way to return the favor. Be aware of the work that you do best and share it to people around you. When an opportunity comes that matches your skills, people will be very happy to offer the opportunity for you.
Take on Opportunities, Big or Small
Big things come from small things first. The same applies on opportunities. Start on smaller ideas and share it to the people around you. They’ll start looking for ideas and share it to you too. Don’t hesitate whether the opportunity is big or small.
Always remember that you can learn new things from these opportunities. With new the things you’ve learn from smaller tasks, you’ll be equipped to handle bigger ones in the future.
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With these simple opportunity guides in your arsenal, you can definitely knock each day at the office. Your colleagues will always expect a better, more confident and productive you. And who wouldn’t want that?
There’s no luck in success! It takes time, careful planning, and an effective strategy to achieve your goals.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing this. This is very very informative and a good motivation for someone like me as well. And very entertaining! I suspect you like cats, by the looks of it. The photos were adorable! Lol
I have also resteemed this post 😁
uhmm.. I was backreading on our group chat and I saw your name and I remember Mav always throws water at you hahaha.. so there, hahaha.. testing out using these images if it converts haha
Hahahahahaha he does that everytime I slip myself into the group chat hahahaha. I like cats and somehow reflected my personality and he's used to calling me a cat lol, but I like animals generally specially dogs.
This was a really good post and a plus for the cats! 😁😀
This post is pretty awesome, found some flaws in myself that I realized while reading this blog. Very helpful, upvoted and resteemed...
Nice. Thanks for reminding the points to remember. Will think about this post before starting up. Hehe!
Oh, I really enjoyed reading this post, all true words: it is worth the effort to try!
And as an extra, I loved the cute kitten photos. Well done! :-)
Either you ALL IN or ALL OUT there is no half way to success.
Nice post buddy : )
great article! I need to work more on valuing my job and being sensitive...a good read for a Friday morning :)
One of my biggest takeaways from this is to focus, be passionate and to stop multitasking. Thanks for this.