Tips for Your Career

Your career will make your days sweet or sour. So you should take plenty of time to choose wisely.

In the beginning

Select that career which, while you are building it, is also building you.

The best career advice given to the young is: "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katherine Whitehorn

"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill

When you are working, always be mindful of the following:

• Arrogance is the quicksand of success.
• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
• Right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
  

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." - Sister Mary Lauretta

“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week” - Robert Frost

"Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life." - Michael Crawford

Vacation Time

"A vacation should be just long enough for the boss to miss you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you."

Retiring Time

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does."

We all have to learn to take control of our own career. Let's work joyfully and peacefully. There was a saying we work to live and not live to work. Do you agree?

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How To Work Better

“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used” - Dr. Carl Sagan

Remember to put in extra effort and work smart. There is no point of telling your boss how hard you work. Tell your boss how much you get done.

Let's take a look at this story that illustrate this point:

Chuan and Jing joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. Both worked very hard.

After several years, the boss promoted Jing to sales executive but Chuan remained a sales rep. One day Chuan could not take it anymore, tender resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not value hard working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him.

The boss knew that Chuan worked very hard for the years, but in order to help Chuan realise the difference between him and Jing, the boss asked Chuan to do the following. Go and find out anyone selling water melon in the market? Chuan returned and said yes. The boss asked how much per kg?

Chuan went back to the market to ask and returned to inform boss $12/kg. Boss told Chuan, I will ask Jing the same question? Jing went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling water melon. $12/kg, $100 for 10kg, he has inventory of 340 melons. On the table 58melons, every melon weighs about 15 kg, bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality.

Chuan was very impressed and realised the difference between himself and Jing. He decided not to resign but to learn from Jing.

The moral of the story:

A more successful person is more observant, think more and understand in depth. For the same matter, a more successful person sees several years ahead, while you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, how could you win? Think! How far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful in depth are you?

“Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!” - Og Mandino


"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages" - Edwin H. Stuart


Be always willing to give that extra effort! You can choose to look forward to the day, or choose to complain. It's your choice!

(Source of this story: Internet; Author Unknown)

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In life there are no shortcuts!

"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too." - Michael Jordan

"There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection." - Ben Hogan

"People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well." - Joe Gibbs

"When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts." - Bo Bennett

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

"Nothing can come of nothing." - William Shakespeare

"People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it." - Brian Tracy

"You have to work for it. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

"It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to. I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time." - Chet Atkins

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Want to be a boss? - Be a good one!

"The man who doesn't need a boss is usually selected to be one."

“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could” - Charles Erwin Wilson

"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day." - Robert Frost

From the Internet, I've managed to gather some attributes of good bosses.

Good bosses:-

• Treat all employees fairly and equally.
• Speak to employees with respect.
• Encourage initiative and decision-making on the job.
• Clearly define job duties and deadlines.
• Praise employees in public but correct in private.
• Show appreciation and thank employees for any contributions

Indeed, some bosses really do deserve praise. But many don't. Anyway, do you think it is better to work for a bad boss at a good company or a good boss at a weak company?

If you would like to share your experience, don't hesitate to post a comment.

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Happy Mother's Day!

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents." - Henry Ward Beecher

"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

"A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway"

"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert

"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother." - Beverly Jones

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined." - John S C Abbott

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." - W. R. Wallace

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

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Equip yourself with the necessary tools

We are fond of saying “A bad workman blames his tools”. A good workman, however, cannot be expected to do the best work with bad tools.

“You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.”

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” - Abraham Maslow

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.” - Bill Gates

Forbes had compiled a list of the 20 most important tools of all time.

Are you fully equipped to do your job well?

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Practise makes perfect

“If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.” - Brooks Robinson

You'll develop more power, physical, mental, or any skill in 30 minutes of practice than in 20 years of positive thinking. No one ever became a champion athlete or master musician in 20 years of positive thinking about music or athletics unless he also practiced.

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

Paderewski said: "The only way to become a master of any skill is first to become its slave. And that takes practice, practice, practice." There can be no gains without pains; no victory without drudgery. Before a general can give commands, he must first take commands...as a trainee.

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Make and seize every Opportunity

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Opportunities come to those who seek them.

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Alva Edison

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” - Charles R. Swindoll

Opportunities, when seized, multiply; when neglected, vanish.

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” - Orison Swett Marden

Successful men think; they think up more opportunities than they find.

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How smart are you?

To outperform someone else - even if that person is "smarter" than you - is to increase your own Mental Performance Ratio - the percentage of your total mental capacity that you are putting to use.

"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." - Will Rogers

"Smart men put up with small annoyances, to gain larger rewards later."

Worker smarter, not just harder!

"The harder and smarter we work, the luckier we get - and the more we live."

"It's never smart to act better or wiser than those around us."

"A mark of a smart employer: he hires men smarter than himself."

"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am." - Henry J. Kaiser

"Heed woman. They're smarter than men. They know less, but understand more." - Anonymous

What do you think?

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The Road To Success

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” - Ben Sweetland

“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.”

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted” - David Bly

“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you” - Tony Dorsett

“Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.”

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” - Harry F. Banks

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The Power of Working Together

Working together works!

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

If one man is a good fisherman, and another is an expert with boats, by working together they can catch more than twice as many fish as they could each working singly. Think. How can you apply this idea to your situation?

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Sow much, Reap much

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 9:6 (NKJV) - "... He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."

If you want more, think more, create more, achieve more... and you will receive more.

There are two ways to increase your money - earn more and save more.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

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Hard work? Keep it up!

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. - Vince Lombardi

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential" - Winston Churchill

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.”

Never, never, never give up.

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Improve Yourself and Be useful

Do you want a better job? Do a better job.

If you're not enthusiastic about your job, you're in the wrong job. If at all possible change it.

Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Never allow two people to do a job which only one can do.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

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Thinking is hard work

When Albert Schweitzer was asked what's wrong with the world, he replied: "They don't think enough." Thinking is the highest faculty of the human mind -- the key to all progress.

History shows in every soil, that those who think rule those who toil.

"Our greatest need is to teach people how to think -- not what, but HOW." - Edison

Many people read a lot because reading is easier than thinking. Thinking is hard work.

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Working Attitude

The richest reward from our work is not what we get out of it in wages, but what we become through it.

At the start of our career, what we learn is more important than what we earn. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work supremely well.

One overlooked success technique: doing things in the order of their importance.

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