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Chapter 7:
Life Lessons

Choosing a successful career path is important to everyone. You may be one of those who have spent most of your time planning and pursuing a career. Thus, choosing the right career is crucial to your overall satisfaction and happiness.

In achieving success in your career, there is a need to pay attention to life lessons as well. These can guide you through strengthening the skills that you need as you advance to the next level of your career.

There is no need to underestimate the things that are possible for you. You are the master of your career. Thus, you need to take time to do some self- reflecting, renewing or reinventing your career skills for your ongoing fulfillment and success.

With life lessons, you can help yourself in strengthening your career skills. Here are some of the tips to consider for you to appreciate your life lessons:

5. Appreciate the Success Last Year

Showing gratitude is one of the things that you have to pay attention to. Take the time to jot down all things that make you feel proud in your career. Undoubtedly, you have accomplished all these things.

While you acknowledge and appreciated your successes, you can go as far as giving yourself a big hug. Take the time to list your career accomplishments. If there are still areas in your career that you need to strengthen on, then pay attention to it.

6. Learn From Your Life Lessons

The things that you learned from your disappointments and successes are the major life lessons that are worthy and truly meaningful. You need to ask yourself how you have achieved your accomplishments.

All of the thoughtful answers uncover the strengths, behaviors and abilities you consistently demonstrated while becoming a success.

You also need to ask yourself about the things that you learned from your failures and disappointments. The answers will serve as an reminders to you. Doing so provides great motivation and inspiration for you. They can be simple guidelines such as:

1. Remembering Only What Matters

2. Valuing Every Relationship

3. Saying Yes to the Next Step

4. Trusting the Process

As you can see, you are your own source of wisdom. Just imagine all of the results that you can achieve from taking the time to learn from all your disappointments and accomplishments. Jot down three statements of advice for future success in your career. Keep it memorable and short. Keep it a positive statement.

7. Shift to a Powerful Paradigm and Pursue your Passions

There is a need to live from the truth that is within you. The most important aspect of being successful is by getting in touch with the things that keep on holding you back. This is more likely your limiting beliefs.

One of the common negative and limiting beliefs of people is saying that they are not good enough. This only sabotages their own success and blocks their ability of living their passions and achieving their goals.

Recognize all these limiting beliefs and let them be replaced by a truthful statement. It is also essential to ask for help in order to break through these patterns. This may even require a divine intervention.

8. Live According to Key Roles and Values

Being clear on the things that get you out of bed in the morning is essential. What do you think are the personal standards or principles that you live by? Remember that values are the drivers of your goals. What are those values that are important to your life?

The key to living a balanced life is the ability of integrating the values in your life roles. You need to identify your key role that remains to be your focus.

9. Set Your High Career in Life and Follow your Success

Your life roles and values are considered to be your supportive framework. They help you in setting inspiring professional and personal goals. Set your career goals by identifying the results that you want to achieve this year. Take all the time you need to write your career goals; take consistent action and monitor your success.

The five transformational principles and life lessons can make you:

  1. Proactive leader of your career
  2. Become a Visible Leader
  3. Get the Promotions That you Deserve
  4. Enjoy a Fulfilling Career That you Love
  5. Maintain a Balanced Life.

“Everything in life is a vehicle for your own transformation. Use it! ”. This is stated by Ram Dass, a renowned spiritual teacher and author.