8 Habits to Build at the Early Stage of your Career

“Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

By the above quotation we find out that where ever we are at the present moment, is as a result of our thoughts. This means that if we don’t want to stay at the same place in the future we can do so by changing the way we think. Hence it becomes an advice to all the newbies in a professional career that to lead a successful personal and professional life, all that is required is to basically control your thoughts because ultimately you will become what think.

You are seen and judged by people on the basis of your repeatedly done actions AKA your habits. In order to portray a good image of yourself, you need to build a solid relationship with yourself AKA self-esteem. A person with low self-esteem will never be motivated, would not like to get rid of bad habits or develop new ones. His negative thinking will not let him move forward from his comfort zone. Therefore, to build a new habit or break an old one, you must learn to control what thoughts come to you. Positive thoughts will lead to good habits whereas negative thoughts will lead to bad ones.

Human beings cannot do without habits, habits are inevitable, you will form different habits according to the environment you invest most your time in. If you do not work for building good habits, you will for sure have bad habits because the probability of both is 50%, if not one then the other is for sure.

There are many new professionals who have brilliant ideas and a perfect set of skills but their bad habits have held them back from reaching to their true potential. Being mindful of your own habits is a matter of grave importance as being known by good words in itself is success which is only possible by possessing good habits.

Considering the fact that it is habits that determine the future of an individual, we have come up with 8 habits that can really make you more valuable at not only your office but at home or anywhere else. Start trying to develop them as their result is immediate.

1. Self-Control

Did you know that trying to control your own self can be deemed as a habit? Yes it can, but if done repeatedly. Inability to control oneself is the very cause of failure. Hence self-control must be mastered by being mindful of the thoughts at every given moment or situation either favorable or unfavorable. As a new professional there will come times when things will not go according to your plan,

Office life for a fresh graduate can be wearing shoes of the wrong size, i.e. uncomfortable and this is where self-control is required. Getting up early, ironing clothes, polishing shoes, smiling even at times of unease, getting stuck in bad traffic, having to do things never tried or done before, completing tasks in their due time, facing music even when you are right, working under a strict boss and the list goes on and on, all these things require is to control your-self. This is why you must every time be careful as to how you are going to deal with all these situations. Try to control yourself every minute, every day and soon, you will have mastered it, and it will become your habit.

2. Being Ambitious

Getting the job for a fresh graduate that he had always thought of is like marrying a woman who he has always been in love with. But did you known that marrying a woman is not where the story ends, rather this is where the really story begins. For which a lot of planning is required. Likewise once you have gotten your dream job, you need to be well aware of what next you have in your mind to do. Settling down is the killer of abilities and skill set. This is why you, as a new professional must be planning a head, must have goals. Again just like developing any other habit, to become ambitious you need to set goals on daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly basis.

3. Setting Goals

If you are following the footsteps of others that basically means that you are not living by your goals. A person without goals will be the first one to follow, whereas the leader is the one who sets the goals and lead his life on his terms. He does not live a dictated life.

4. Planning

It is not possible that you have a habit of setting goals, but planning is not. One who sets, goals is tend to plan to accomplish his set goals. Planning is the key to success, one who works with a plan does not need to find an excuse for not being able to complete a certain task. Because it is planning that suggests whether you will be successful to achieve your goals or you won’t as it is said that failing to plan is planning to fail.

5. Managing Time

Successful people are very miser and never lend their time to anyone that easy, because they understand the value of time and have realized the fact that no matter what happens time is not something to compromise with. Not only are their days important to them, but even the minutes are hard to borrow from them. This is why if you too want to become a successful person in your career you will need to build this habit of managing your time well, and scheduling your tasks, prioritizing them and putting first thing first. Understand the value of time and learn to manage it, see how easy it becomes to accomplish your goals.

6. Learning

An ambitious person would never not be a learner because part of being ambitious is the habit of learning. Many new professionals limit their learning to a particular area only, which basically limits their growth whereas there are only a few of professionals who have made learning a habit of their. Many successful people believe that it was the urge for learning new things each day that made them successful. They would not only learn those things that would relate to their field, rather they were eager to explore things beyond their reach. That's why you also should Try to learn something new each day is going help you develop this habit of learning and soon you will become a valuable person in your organization, because you will have multiple skill set.

7. Reading

Bill Gates once said, “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

If you want to learn each day new things, you need to read new things each day because reading is one of the greatest sources of learning, a person who reads in a manner that he has developed it as a habit, is regarded as a person with knowledge and a person with knowledge can never be deceived. Many great leaders and successful people were very much accustomed to reading, and it helped them achieve their target and goals. Make reading a habit of yours a witness the change in your personal and professional life that you had never seen before.

8. Ability to Focus

Ability to focus can be developed because it too is a habit if one is repeatedly trying to do it. One of the things required to become successful in life is the ability to fight distraction. If you truly want to become successful in your life you need to learn how to execute a project just the way you have planned and let nothing become a hindrance or distract you from reaching your goals.

These habits if you can develop, you are highly likely to witness quick promotion in your professional life but never undermine these habits and limit them  for that purpose only rather they are such powerful habits that have the potential to reshape you entire life.

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