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Put Your Career on the Fast Track
There are many things you can do to put your career onto the fast track.
You can set clear, specific goals for each area of your life and then make
plans to accomplish them. You can plan your work and work your plan.
Ask For Greater Responsibility
You can accept 100% responsibility for everything you are and everything
you become. You can refuse to make excuses or to blame others. You can tell
your boss that you want greater responsibilities and then when you get
them, put your whole heart into doing an excellent job.
Utilize Your Inborn Talents
In the parable
of the talents in the New Testament, Jesus says, "Oh good and faithful
servant, you have been faithful over small things. I will make you master
over large things."
If you too will carry
out every assignment to the very best of your ability, you will be given
larger and more important things to do and you'll be paid more as a result.
Dedicate Yourself to Continuous Improvement
The key to long
term success is for you to dedicate yourself to continuous improvement. If
you become one tenth of one percent more productive each day, that amounts
to 1/1000th improvement per working day. Is that possible? Of course it is!
Improve a Little at a Time
If you become one tenth of one percent more productive each day, that
amounts to one half of one percent more productive each week. One half of
one percent more productive each week amounts to two percent more
productive each month and 26% more productive each year.
The cumulative effect
if becoming a tiny bit better at your field and more productive amounts to
a tremendous increase in your value and your output over time.
How to Double Your Productivity
Twenty-six
percent more productive each year, with compounding, amounts to doubling
your overall productivity and performance every 2.7 years. If you become
26% more productive each year, with compounding, times 10 years, you will
be 1004% more productive over the next decade. That is an increase of ten
times over ten years.
The Reason For All Great Successes
This is called the Law of Accumulation, or the Principle of Incremental
Improvement. It is the primary reason for all great success stories. By the
yard, it’s hard. But inch by inch, anything’s a cinch!
Become A 1000% Person
Make a
decision, right now, to be a 1000% person. Commit yourself to continuous
personal and professional development. Read, listen to audio programs and
take additional courses. This process will completely transform your life.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put these ideas into action immediately.
First, make a plan to
become a little bit better every single day. Learn and apply one new idea
each day to help you to become more productive and effective at your work.
The incremental effect will amaze you.
Second, be patient.
Don’t expect overnight changes or instant results. Remember the story of
the tortoise and the hare. Become a little bit better each day and your
future will take care of itself.
Goals!
How to Get Everything You Want —
Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Using the twenty-one strategies Tracy outlines, you'll be able to
accomplish any goals you set for yourself - no matter how big.
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