4 Easy Ways to Achieve Personal and Professional Success
Prior to Covid-19 hitting our world and becoming a crazy reality, I was on fire. I knew where I was going, what I wanted to do with my life, my business and my health. Then everything got sidelined. Covid-19 entered and I changed my focus and started pivoting to stay with the change and reinvent myself. Somewhere along the way, I got off track. I stopped posting blogs, backed away from social media, stopped exercising, and all of sudden found myself in a “Covid Funk”.
This #CovidFunk is not an excuse to stay stuck. Use it to reinvent and reinvest in yourself! Today is the day!!
I kept busy, and to be honest, I took a much needed break from what I thought I wanted out of life to reassess what “Success” was to me in my personal and professional life. I guess you could say, the gift I got from Covid-19 was the opportunity to reset and reevaluate what I want from my life and business.
As I started to reinvent, reinvest and reengage in this new way of doing things, I began to get excited with the opportunities ahead.
If you are struggling to navigate and readjust, you are not alone!
If you are struggling to find your way through this new reality, you are not alone. All around the world people are struggling to navigate and readjust to this new world as it is.
It is easy to stay in a “Covid funk” but you can’t find success or happiness when you are there.
You may not have control over what this virus is doing to the world, but you do have control of how you choose to live your life. This is a perfect opportunity to reinvent, reinvest and reengage yourself into life, career and the world. It may look different and it might even look better, but to get there means acknowledging that you are ready to make a move in a new direction.
4 Easy Ways to Achieve Personal and Professional Success
Evaluate your current reality of your personal and professional life
Be honest with yourself and evaluate based on your current reality. Just like taking a vacation, you must start your trip right where you are. This is an opportunity to take a look at who you are, what you are doing and where you are.
Do you know who are and or the type of person you would like to be
Are you proud of what you have accomplished in your personal and professional life
Are you ready to step up to the challenge and set you sights on your “success”
Examine what your definition is for “success” for your personal and professional life
What is your definition of success? It is different for everyone, there is no wrong answer
It is important to note that “success” is not a destination, it is a journey and state of evolution
Consider the type of person you want to be and what that would look like for you
Consider what you want to achieve in your professional life and what do you hope to be the benefits
Establish “Milestone objectives” towards where you want to go or do to reach your success
A “milestone objective” is something that is measurable that you would be able to strive for, reach and achieve.
As the milestone objectives are achieved, your level of success will increase with each one
As you go on your “success journey” think about what would be your milestone objectives to help you along the way
Embrace the opportunity to learn, grow and re-calibrate along the way
To move forward means accepting the fact that you will have to try new things, do things differently and step outside your comfort zone. It isn’t always easy, but you can do it! Your worth it!
“If you aren’t moving forward, life is passing you!”
Surround yourself with others that are working on moving forward and open to growing. They can provide support to you and you can offer support to them.
Life has a habit of taking us off our path from time to time or we find that the path we thought we wanted ends up being wrong. When things don’t feel right, or you have lost your desire to keep going, it is time to reflect and possibly re-calibrate. Like a GPS when you are going the wrong direction, it is time to re-calibrate to get on the best possible path.
Be careful of being too comfortable!! It might be a sign that you are sitting still in complacency and not growing!
To achieve any success in your personal and professional life will involve having to step outside your comfort zone into the growth and learning zone.
Life is too short to sit and wait for success to come to you. In fact the more you sit and wait, the less and less success will ever come.
Take today to be your day to move forward, reinvent, reinvest and reengage yourself into life, career and the world. WHY???? Because you are worth it!
