By Rita Santamaria
Your career is defined by you and your vision of success. When you think about your success and your future successes take a moment to list your current aha moments. What are the specifics you are most proud of? Always keep in mind you have successes in your personal world as well as your public or business world. Often, our personal successes with family, children, and friends help us overcome a disappointing business situation. Without question, when a baby accomplishes a milestone such as walking or talking, its parents bask in the joy of that moment and all their other negative thoughts disappear. When your child wins a sports tournament, makes cheerleading, or gets accepted to college, all other daily woes from business are temporarily taken away from your brain.
These daily personal successes should get you motivated for the next day in your business career; however, if your career needs some re-creating or improvement, start with your own personal analysis of how committed you are to your business model. Do you get enthused about the prospect of another sale? If the answer is no, you need a career boost. If you are rewarded in your career with a sale and you are ho-hum about it, your career needs a boost. If the overall results of a good work day don’t give you the enthusiasm to go away from the day feeling satisfaction in yourself, you need a boost.
What are the boosters? Boosters are more education. Volunteering in a different area or taking classes in everything, from specific career coaching to learning a new sport, can give you a boost. Many people start getting stale in their career and the new information they learn from a class gives them the best enhancement to their lethargy.
If you try different directions per the above for changing the direction of your career and still nothing is different, you probably need a new career. Most people change careers three times in their lives. It is unusual to keep the same career forever. Go to seminars, attend career fairs, and ask questions about the different careers represented. Take a personality test to see what you inherently find more interesting and then move towards that direction which parallels your basic personality traits. It is important to keep your current job until you have the financial budget needed in making the change to your new career.
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Rita Santamaria is the owner of Champions School of Real Estate which was founded in 1983 and is a five time national award winning school. The Champions School of Professional Development was founded in 2012 and has grown in a short time to be a leading development venue for individuals and companies. For more information on taking the Champions School of Real Estate Professional Development Course to brush-up on your professional skills and also learn about your personality, how to communicate, how to prepare for a job interview, and many other areas of education that will only make you better, visit the website at www.ChampionsSchool.com.
