The very first requirement for a person to be at the job and to actively involve oneself is to introduce yourself to you. To be successful is one half of the glass the other half is being able to identify your strength and weaknesses. Because in true sense only the right evaluation of strengths will enable to build on the positives and a personal realization of weakness will help evaluate the wrongs and convert them into strengths.
It's always convenient to say that you dislike your job or are not satisfied with it but in reality can you say that you did the right thing by taking up that job in the first place? Take a long decisive look at the qualities you excel in and then try to find a position that uses some of those skills too. Yet one of the differentiating factors of self-awareness is to have a good understanding of your personality traits and your preferred style of working.
Improving self-awareness can assist you towards the perfect package of good compensation, rewards, power and a realistic goal. Knowing this will help one to stop being idealistic or fantasize achieving tall gains, instead setting appropriate goals and managing one’s expectations realistically.
More the similarities between your job and the requirements, greater are the chances for you being happy at your job and as for the rest of the constituents they would prod you to achieve the maximum from the said job.
Challenges
Everyone might hate or love a challenge depending on the earlier point of self awareness, if one chooses well you might end up loving your job, so also with the challenges associated with it. Does this mean your job has to be the head of engineering at ISRO? No, different things challenge different people at different times. One just needs to understand what is it that gets you going ? if a daily muted challenges enables you to go that extra mile then take it, prove it right and watch your confidence roar.
If the challenges are not a part of the job, then do set some goals for self improvement believe me they go a long way and always add credits to your character certificate
- Set some milestone with respect to performance, goals help visualising your achievements actively and also help setting challenges with colleagues to conquer
- Teach your skills to your colleagues, help them grow while you grow too
- Take on new responsibilities, these will give you opportunities to prove yourself.
- Start or take on a project that uses skills you would like to use, or want to improve.
- Commit to improve personally as well as professionally – take courses, read books or trade magazines and attend seminars. However you do it, keep your skills fresh and current.
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