Career

Time is one of the most precious resources - you don’t get a second chance to use it.   No do-overs!

Today life is coming at us like a bullet – fast and unforgiving, the challenge is how to get better, faster and to stay ahead of the challenges. It requires a personal growth rate that matches the growing pace of change. Fast growth requires a keen awareness of what you’re doing with yourself. It’s important for you to maximize the value of the moment.

Speed can be more important for your success than an increased IQ.

Are you making a good investment of your hours and minutes? We must learn to grow more rapidly; we need to accelerate our adaptability because change keeps picking up speed. It’s up to us to make the change, to fix it we can’t delegate it to anyone else. You can do something about it; you’re the one living your life and you can choose to live it to the fullest despite the current economic situation.

You’re in control.

When change hits, you really can’t do much to reduce the speed of change, some people try to put the brakes on hoping to buy time, but change won’t wait on you. Under today’s conditions, slowing down is the most hazardous move you could make. Accelerated speed must become the norm, competition moves fast and market changes quickly you must do everything possible to accelerate in your career.

     You don’t have time to take your time.    

Today work is global and the economy is shifting more and more towards service and towards knowledge work. It does no good to complain or be bitter about what’s happening. We waste precious energy if we resist, get angry or give in to grief over all that’s being lost. We jeopardize our future if we cling to old assumptions and expectations about how careers should operate. The world doesn’t care about our opinions or our feelings. The world rewards only those of us who catch on to what’s happening, who invest our energy in finding and seizing the opportunities brought about by change.

The thing about change is it always comes bearing gifts.

Resistance to change is almost always a dead-end street. Change can be painful especially when it damages career, emotions such as grief, anger and depression come naturally making it hard for people to be productive

Mobility, not mourning, makes you valuable.

You can’t do everything fast, so you have to figure out where speed will count the most. Decide where your growth can make the biggest difference and then drive hard in that direction.

Career acceleration is a sacrificial act since you must be willing to take from other areas of your life – significant trade-offs and serious compromises.

Career acceleration requires you to simplify, to deliberately mange choices out of our lives.  Decide what really counts, and by focusing

yourself you can achieve the critical mass of energy required for real acceleration.

Career opportunities come when you align immediately with new organizational needs and realities and when you’re light on your feet. You must be able to show high capacity for adjustment since organizations want people who can adapt fast and not people who resist change or are psychologically unplug.

Hey guys, this book What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles is great to use to help you take personal responsibility for adapting to change and accelerating your career today.