7 Basic Steps Required For Successful Career

Umama Azeem
3 min readApr 8, 2020
Photo by Razvan Chisu on Unsplash

1 Identifying your goal is the very first step toward your career. Goals are important for your both social and personal life. They gave you a purpose for your life but it is important to select an attainable and beneficial goal for yourself. Selecting a goal to consider your interest and abilities.

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paula Coelho,
The Devil and Miss Prim

2 Learn, learn and learn. Start learning about your goal as much as you research you’ll be able to continue your career. Keep in mind that nothing can teach you more enough than yourself. If your goal is about being a writer than start practicing because Practice makes a man perfect.

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — George Herbert

3 Be self-motivated. Self-motivation and self-esteem is the most necessary step for a successful career. Believe in yourself and just start chasing your success. A self-motivated person can overcome any problem. Don’t focus on what others are saying just be on your goal

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.” — Bill Gates

4 Exercise communication skills. For your career, your communication skills must be strong and practice your skills. If you don’t know how to deliver your idea then you’ll not able to continue your career. Highly skilled communicators earn more money and are more successful.

Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” — Gil Amelia

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” — Brian Tracy

5 Punctuality is the key to a bright future. Just think about a minute, whom you like a person who did no work on time or the person who considers punctuality a basis for his work? Majority of the people like a punctual person. It meant that punctuality should be practice in your life. The clients appreciate the work which is on time. Punctuality is a soul of business.

“Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.” — Marvin J. Ashton

6 Leadership is a necessary part of a career. One good leader can conquer the world with his skills and hard work. No one can deny the importance of leadership in career success. Leadership leads the person to set the tone for the business. You should understand your responsibility towards your work and colleagues. Be gentle in your work.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” — Bill Gates

7 Taking control of your career. You should know what is good or bad for your career in the future. Try not to blame others for your mistake, accept it and correct it. Learn from your mistakes and avoid them in the future. No one can not become professional without error and mistakes.

--

--