Business is accelerating, and it’s always in search of growth. How to participate in this adventure while keeping yourself safe? After reading more than 300 books on psychology, business, personal development, creativity… and more than 20 years of career where I went from salesman to executive, I keep these 8 points if I had to summarize how to grow a career.
Be proactive
Assume 100% responsibility
- If your relationship with your boss isn’t working, do what you can to improve it
- Confront him in a discussion to clear things up, look for another job, talk to his boss… Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
- Viktor E. Frankl
Develop a hobby/side hustle
What was true yesterday won’t be tomorrow.
- Find and develop passions besides your main career. It allows you to distance yourself from your primary job, and maybe one day, you will decide to take the plunge and launch your new idea.
Learn
Read anything that excites your curiosity and can help you grow
- Mr. Covey’s 7 Habits supported him as a salesman, an executive, and still guides him today as a person
- He recommends the 11 books that have influenced his career the most
Welcome your doubts
It’s not a wrong signal; it’s a chance to grow.
Develop your productivity
Start with the big picture and keep it in mind: what do you want to do professionally? If everything was possible, what would you do?
- Learn to sleep well: rest, recover, and recover
- The one thing that makes or kills your day: decide what you will and won’t do
The habit of extending your comfort zone
Expose yourself to risk more often.
My productivity system summarized in a one-page visual mind map
No system fits all, but there are a few points that can work for you.
Work on your innovation muscle
adopt a flexible mindset in the thought process and a consistent mind when it comes to actions
- To stand out, innovate every day
- Train your muscle.
- Without anyone asking you to, regularly brainstorm on improvement topics
- 10 ideas to improve our service meetings that I can share with my boss.
Learn to write
write in your journal to analyze your problems, your emotions, to transform your fears into actions
- Write a thank you card, explain before a meeting the critical elements of a project, and facilitate the decision-making process for the group
- It could be therapeutic and useful.
