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15 Tips for Career and Life Success
In my work as an executive coach, keynote speaker, leadership consultant and author I have spent the last five years studying what it takes to succeed in your life and career. I have found that successful people share five traits in common: 1. Successful people are self confident; 2. Successful people have positive personal impact; 3. Successful people are outstanding performers; 4. Successful people are excellent communicators; 5. Successful people are interpersonally competent. If you follow the 15 common sense pieces of advice I've presented in this checklist, you'll be able to build a successful life and career.
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait…and Back Off from Time to Time
Consider the number of times that any of us is given unsolicited advice, “helpful” opinions, or other ideas that we didn’t ask for, didn’t want, and quite frankly, aren’t always so useful and helpful in the first place. Irritating, isn’t it? Unfortunately, this type of scenario happens all the time in the workplace.
Surround Yourself with Positive People for Success
Self-confidence is an important key to personal and professional success. Positive people help your self-confidence because they tend to see the potential in you - even when you might not see it in yourself. Negative people, on the other hand, will hinder your self-confidence because they tend to reinforce your self-doubt and negative beliefs about yourself. Jettison the negative people in your life. If you can't remove them completely, do your best to keep them at arm's length. Build a network of positive people by being positive yourself. Think positively. Smile. Speak positively.
The Optimist Creed Overview
This is the first in a series of articles on The Optimist Creed and how it can help you succeed in your career and life.
Career Success and Problem Solving
Outstanding performance is very important to career and life success. It's at the heart of the five success elements. No one can be successful without being a highly competent, outstanding performer. The incompetents and poor performers get identified and asked to leave or are placed in marginal positions pretty quickly. You have to identify the problems and obstacles to becoming an outstanding performer that you face before you can take action and deal with them. Don't call your problems "opportunities" or your obstacles "challenges". Call them what they are, and then get on with fixing your problems and overcoming your obstacles.
Hard Work, Outstanding Performance and Success
Outstanding performance is an important key to career and life success. As Malcolm Gladwell points out, outstanding performers are hard workers. They know what they want and do whatever it takes to get it. They enthusiastically act on their dreams. This action helps them reach their goals. There is no way around hard work. You have to put in the time and effort if you want to be successful. Ask any "overnight success." Everyone that I've ever met tells me that they spent years and years getting to the place where they became an "overnight success." Set your goals. Work hard. Work smart. And you'll succeed.

Dynamic Communication
Effective communication is vital to personal success and it is an up close and personal endeavor. All of the great communicators I know are great conversationalists. I have one great piece of common sense advice that will help you achieve personal success through effective communication: listen more than you speak. People like to talk about themselves and the best way to get to know them is to ask questions. When you meet people for the first time, ask "get to know you" questions like: "What do you do?" "Where do you live?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?" Listen to the answers and file them away for future use. Understanding and using the keys to dynamic communication in this article can help catapult you towards achieving personal success. And they will make you a whole lot nicer to be around, too.

Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal competence is the fifth key of career and life success. No matter how self confident and how good at creating positive personal impact or how great a performer and dynamic a communicator you are, you will not achieve life success without interpersonal competence. By taking the time to understand yourself and others, build strong relationships and resolve conflict positively you are well on your way to achieving life success. The greatest life success is found by those who truly seek these things.
Become a Remarkable Creature: Take Personal Responsibility for Your Own Success
Successful people are clear on their purpose and direction in life. They commit to taking personal responsibility for living their life purpose. If you want to achieve career success, you need to do the same. Clarify what you want from your life and career. Then commit to doing whatever it takes to get it. Set high goals. React positively to the setbacks, problems and negative people and events in your life. Keep at it. Don't let a day when you come back empty handed in your quest for career success get you down. Get up the next day with optimism in your heart and keep working toward the mighty purpose you've set for yourself.
You Can Turn Information into Leadership and Career Success
During turbulent times, when seeking information on what to do next, the best answers for arriving at new possibilities require deeper questions. It is a time for reinventing the knowledge you have with creativity and vision.

Career Success Advice: Be Nice
Successful people create positive personal impact. Knowing and following the basic rules of etiquette is key to creating positive personal impact. In the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, in his tribute to Canada, slam poet Shane Koyczan said "And some say what defines us / Is something as simple as 'please' and 'thank you'." Canadians are known for being polite and we can all learn a lesson from them. Simple words like "please" and "thank you" define you as a person who not only is polite, but one who is polished and gracious -- two characteristics that will help you create positive personal impact and succeed in creating the career success you want and deserve
Successful People are Optimists -- They Ask For, and Often Get What They Want
Self confident, optimistic people ask for what they want. They may not always get it, but often they do. If you want to become a career success, you need to be confident enough to ask for what you want. Randy Pausch and his father and son got to ride in the nose cone of the Disney World Monorail -- because he chose optimism and asked. Cathy and I got to see the sold out Inspiring Impressionism exhibit at the Denver Art Museum -- because she chose optimism and asked. Ask for what you want. You'll be surprised at how many times you'll get what you want.

Hard Work and Success -- One Follows the Other
The point here is simple -- and sobering for those who are looking for career success shortcuts. Be willing to go the extra mile. Create custom resumes for every job for which you apply. Once you get a job, work harder than others. Volunteer for unpopular jobs -- and then do a great job. Yes, if you want to become an outstanding performer, it's important to be a lifelong learner, set and achieve high goals, and get organized. But it's also important to do something a lot simpler -- and totally in your control; be willing to work hard. Hard work will help build your brand and put you at the top of the promotion list, and bottom of the layoff list.
Stellar Supervision Enhances Company Productivity
Looking for a framework to use to provide stellar supervision for each of your staff members? Proactive, collaborative supervision is a key to enhancing each staff member's competencies, commitment and optimum personal productivity. It enhances staff loyalty and reduces turnover because staff members feel their career success is a top priority of their leader. Read on to discover the things you can do to help your staff members excel.
5 Ways to Boost Your Earning Potential
The better connected you are and the more able you are to demonstrate your skills, knowledge, and commitment to employers, the more control you will have over your earning potential.
Position Yourself for Success: 4 Tips to Recession-Proof Your Career
Are you looking for a way to recession-proof your career? There are steps everyone can take to survive – and even thrive – regardless of the current state of the economy. Find out what changes you can make to have a positive impact on your career.

Business and Life Lessons From "The Apprentice"ª
Donald Trump knows a few things about business success and leadership. Here are five lessons you can put to use immediately to move forward faster at work, business and life.
Making Business Personal
One of the most common mistakes people make when building relationships for career success and revenue growth is treating business contacts differently than personal friends. Just think for a moment about the people you work with on a professional level who are also close personal friends. Aren't they always more forgiving when you slip up and more helpful when you're in need than new acquaintances are? Of course! I guarantee your work will be easier, more joyful, and more successful if you make more of your business relationships personal.
Career Success – 3 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Bullet Proof Your Career
Position yourself for great career success by using these three simple techniques to keep you ready for a job search. Spending time each week doing these three activities can mean the difference gearing up for a lengthy job search and being in action immediately.
Career Success – How to Be a standout!
Looking for a job is never easy but looking for a job when the market is saturated is even more challenging. Differentiating yourself from others is most important. Learn what others have done to stand out.

How to Recession Proof Your Job: Ten Job Secrets for Career Success!
Economic times constantly change and organizations adapt to these changes. For you to find career success, you must be pro-active about your job. What are the career secrets of those who soar to the top in their careers no matter what the economic environment is in the world? The following are ten career secrets you can use to “recession proof” yourself and find career success no matter what the economic situation is.
Five Stress Management Secrets for Challenging Times: How to Use Stress for Your Career Success
When you learn how to manage stress, you benefit in the following ways: * Improved health and decreased incidence of disease * Improved mood * Improved memory and thinking * Improved sleep * Improved relationships * Reduced absenteeism * Improved productivity * Improved workplace environment The following are five stress management secrets that will allow you to fulfill your career, business, and life ambitions while living a happier life

Career Planning: How to Discover Your Dream Job
An effective job search begins by figuring out the specific criteria and values you want the job to fulfill. It may sound obvious, but before you can find the job you really want, you have to know what you're seeking.

Psychographic Profile of an Average American Millionaire
Bullett points from the book "The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley.

How To Help Employees To Be Happy At Work
Most of us would like to be happy at work. Many people however become frustrated with their jobs and the company they work for. How can employees find jobs that will bring them job satisfaction and career success and how do employers insure that their employees stay engaged in meaningful work.
How To Dramatically Boost Your Chances Of Having A Successful Career
Many people have had their theories about what attributes are required to have a successful and rewarding career. Some say you need to have a high IQ. Others say that great communication and leadership skills are the keys while others think that coming from a wealthy family gives you a significant advantage in the business world. However a study that followed 268 Harvard students over a 70 year showed that the most significant factor to positively influence your career actually had little to do with what you did at work...

Cultivating Your Success
Continuing to learn, grow, and develop despite recent success
Lead People, Manage Money
The idea of patterns at play in the workplace is beginning to create some lively discussions. You can take the quiz to observe the personal patterns you bring to work by taking the quiz on my website. If you choose, you can then have a free half hour consultation to give you pointers on what to do to make positive changes and increase your career success quotient. Not bad for less than an hour to be able to say "Oh, now I get it!!" George White took the test and here is his response:
Responsibility
Responsibility Yields Success!
A Millennial Intervention
An intervention for Millennials leaving the "bubble" of college and entering the "boardroom" of career.

Impact and Influence: A Key Competency for Top Performers
Impact and influence is the ability to persuade or convince others to support an idea, agenda or direction. It involves taking a variety of actions to influence others including establishing credibility or using your communication skills to direct others towards your desired results.

Make Your Contacts Count
Make Your Contacts Count! A Great Book to Read for Business! Now, more than ever, it's time to maximize your networking...but don't you wonder how best to do it? One way to jumpstart your skills is to read the 250-page book that is filled with great strategies, "Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success" by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. Here's some detailed information about what's in this great book!

Reignite Your Passion at Work
Finding your passion early in a career is easy to do. Later in a career, you may need to redefine what it is that stirs your passions and makes work worthwhile beyond a paycheck. Find out how to do that here.

Networking for Introverts
Networking is always a popular career topic, and the reason is simple: the people you know and those who know you will have an enormous influence on your personal and career success. If you're an introvert and the very thought of networking makes you want to dive for the nearest rabbit hole, that statement may provoke panic. But keep breathing, because networking doesn't have to be painful -- not even for introverts.
Develop Your Executive Presence
Individuals in an executive position should develop their executive presence (a person’s manner of carrying themselves) if they want to be more successful. Certain characteristics and behaviors are signs of executive presence and can be developed.
BALANCED SUCCESS
There are many people who lead worthwhile and fulfilling lives, but have not accumulated wealth and cannot be called rich. Just because you have not succeeded in being richer than the people you know, or attaining all your ambitions at work, does mean your life has been a failure.
12 Steps Toward Greater Career and Life Fulfillment
Clients are always asking us the “secrets” to life/career success and fulfillment. You’ve heard of David Letterman’s Top Ten – here is Cheryl’s Top Twelve steps toward greater fulfillment in your career and your life.
Build your power base
This article provides an overview about how to build an effective power base. It is excellent for both executives as well as executive coaches and business advisors.
Observations of Changing Paradigms In The Workforce From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach is constantly seeking information on new trends, new technology, new insights and new paradigms to share with clients, prospects, friends, colleagues and others. The dynamics of our workplace today is truly astounding. We look at the face of our workforce and see four generations in the workplace. And each generation has different characteristics that present strategic information on how they work, how they communicate, how they think, how they define their values system, and so on. Recently I read an article in one of my colleague’s, Dr. Ira Wolf's weekly newsletters, "The Total View Newsletter" that attracted my attention. ra was looking at the workforce in 2010 and listing the changing career paradigms we can anticipate to take place. Here is the list of paradigm shifts.

Other Career success Related Articles

Moments: The secret of life.(The Origin)
Last fall two unrelated media events sparked the creation of Time Control’s Moments tool. The first was an interview with Dallas Cowboys' football star Deion Sanders. Having made a career of highlight reel interceptions and punt and kickoff returns for touchdowns, Deion reflected that he defined the success of his career by individual moments on the field. With all of the years of preparation for the NFL, with all of the countless hours of physical. and mental conditioning, with all of the practices, with all of the hours of actual game time throughout his career, it was the individual big plays that defined Deion Sanders. Moments tool is about how we measure our success and joy through time.

12 Steps Toward Greater Career and Life Fulfillment
Clients are always asking us the “secrets” to life/career success and fulfillment. You’ve heard of David Letterman’s Top Ten – here is Cheryl’s Top Twelve steps toward greater fulfillment in your career and your life.
How to Succeed in Your Career and Life
As an executive coach, I’m often asked for my best thoughts on what it takes to become a career and life success. I always tell my executive coaching clients to think systematically, to break success down into some manageable components. This article is a bullet point summary of what I tell my executive coaching clients on how to become a career and life success. Put these points to use and you will succeed, just like my executive coaching clients.

How to Recession Proof Your Job: Ten Job Secrets for Career Success!
Economic times constantly change and organizations adapt to these changes. For you to find career success, you must be pro-active about your job. What are the career secrets of those who soar to the top in their careers no matter what the economic environment is in the world? The following are ten career secrets you can use to “recession proof” yourself and find career success no matter what the economic situation is.
Career Tips for High Achievers Who Are Feeling Stagnant
High achievers are prone to enter a time in their career where they plateau or stall. Perhaps promotions are not coming as fast and furious as they once did or in some cases, they have achieved every goal they have set and have run out of challenges. Achievers will ask themselves, "Is this all there is?" After striving for success, when success levels out, the feeling of advancement is replaced by a feeling of stagnation. This condition could be called Achievers Depression or Career Stall.
Create Your Success by Acting With Enthusiasm
Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their career and life success. They decide what they really want out of their life and career. They create a vivid mental image of themselves having what they want. And then they act -- enthusiastically. They seize the day and do whatever it takes to get what they vividly imagine and ardently desire. Commit to taking responsibility for your success. Seize the day -- and act.
Self Confidence
There are a few common sense points associated with self confidence. Believe in yourself. Your career success will be built on your self confidence. First, be optimistic. As the Optimist Creed says, "Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble." Second, take action. Face your fears and deal with them. Live your life in the career success arena, so you will know the "triumph of achievement." Third, find the positive people around you. Hold on to them. Identify the negative people around you. Jettison them. Find a career success mentor and learn everything you can from him or her.
Become a Remarkable Creature: Take Personal Responsibility for Your Own Success
Successful people are clear on their purpose and direction in life. They commit to taking personal responsibility for living their life purpose. If you want to achieve career success, you need to do the same. Clarify what you want from your life and career. Then commit to doing whatever it takes to get it. Set high goals. React positively to the setbacks, problems and negative people and events in your life. Keep at it. Don't let a day when you come back empty handed in your quest for career success get you down. Get up the next day with optimism in your heart and keep working toward the mighty purpose you've set for yourself.
Create Your Success
If you want to succeed you need to do at least four things: 1) Get clear on --your purpose and direction in your life and career; 2) Commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and career; 3) Build unshakeable self confidence; 4) Develop the competencies you need to succeed. Yes, there's a lot to learn, but there is one point I make over and over again with my coaching clients. You need to use what you learn. I listed several success quick points above and hopefully you learned something from them. But, as the U.S. Steel pencils used to say, "Knowing is not enough." You have to use this knowledge if you're going to become a career and life success. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination.

Stay Ahead of the Curve Through Professional Development
Want to make sure that you are poised for long-term career success? Stay sharp by continuing to participate in professional development opportunities throughout your career.

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