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Seven Strategies To Boost Your Professional Life In 2022  

Here are Seven Strategies for those who focus especially on what “could fail” and, in fact, usually fail.

  1. Coherence 

Don’t ask yourself “how I want my life to be”, ask yourself better “what I want to do every day”.

There are no better goals, values ​​or lifestyles than those that YOU choose, yes, in a conscious, concrete and expressway. A person with a satisfactory professional life is not necessarily the most qualified or the one with the most income; she is the one who takes her professional life as something personal, who works to live well and who does not only live to work. Your values ​​are not what you say, they are “what you do”.  

  1. Decide what is important and try to organize your life to be consistent with that decision

How many parents, managers, entrepreneurs, employees or self-employed professionals declare that “their family comes first” and, nevertheless, dedicate almost the entire day and a large part of the weekend to the professional field?

 

There are no good or bad paths, but inconsistent decisions that harm us and those around us. Align your values ​​with the way you live or change your life to align with your values. What’s it gonna be? If working is a very important part of your lifestyle, don’t fool yourself or your loved ones so that they can adjust their expectations. If you have decided that family should come first, organize your life so that it is.

  1. Change

Before you change, decide what should not change. Trying to “change everything” supposes a very big effort that can also be unsuccessful. because if there is any improvement you will not know what caused it. If you want to improve your personal or professional life in an effective way. introduce small changes, one by one, to see what effects each of the factors and modifications that you introduce have.

 

You will be surprised to see that your life can improve a lot by touching only “one key”. And if there is no progress, you will have invested little time and effort and can try making another small change.

 

If you want to introduce sport into your life, for example, you could start with just a daily ten-minute walk, and see what happens.

 

If you are a manager who wants to improve motivation in your company, you could start, for example, by applying a simple system to find out the opinion of your professionals.

 

“Perfection is achieved at last, not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to obtain.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

 

  1. Decide what you want to achieve, not what you want to avoid

-Where are you going?

 

“Where the wind takes me.”

 

“Yeah, but what if the wind didn’t blow, where would you go?”

 

There are two types of professionals, those who go after what they want and those who only avoid what they don’t want.  These dualistic classifications are not real, because in general people can behave in a “pursuing” or “avoidant” way, depending on different objectives and contexts. But it’s important to focus on finding what motivates and interests us, and not reduce our choices to just eliminating the options we don’t like.

  1. Better a bad goal than none

If you create a goal, you create a path and the motivation to prepare to travel it. To start improving we have to consider our current personal and professional situation and the goals we set for ourselves: what do we want to achieve?

 

Which of these goals do you identify with?

 

  1. Reinvention. You consider that the time has come for a change, you are thinking of reinventing your professional life.

 

  1. New challenges. You are a director or a professional with projection who wants to take on new goals and projects.

 

  1. Specialization. You plan to specialize, find new vocations and professional paths.

 

  1. In-company career. Your goal is to grow and boost your career in the company where you currently work.

 

  1. Balance. The lifestyle you want does not fit your daily professional performance and you seek personal and work balance.

 

  1. Jobs. You are looking for new professional opportunities.

 

  1. Initiative. You consider the possibility of undertaking and turning what you know how to do into a business.

 

  1. Motivation. You have decided to create or seek greater motivation and satisfaction in your professional activity.

 

  1. A goal is not what you decide to do, a goal is what you spend time on

How can you differentiate a lack of resources from a lack of true motivation to tackle a goal?

 

Many people are dissatisfied with their daily professional life and declare that they “want to change”. However, most do nothing about it, saying they don’t have time due to the obligations imposed by their current lifestyle and job performance.

 

Ask yourself this question: If you had five minutes, what would you do with them?

 

Defining specific goals is motivating, because it offers you your own and others’ references to know the effectiveness of the steps you take.

 

If you had started learning Chinese ten years ago with a dedication of five minutes a day, you would have already studied 18,250 minutes, 304 hours or 38 full days! Considering that a day has 8 hours of work.

 

You may be thinking that calculations of this type are somewhat tricky, because those five minutes a day (which we would not have dedicated to Chinese) might have been invested in other activities and objectives that are also profitable. Also, to achieve a minimum of concentration, study sessions should include longer periods.

 

But the objective of this exercise is to help us generate alternatives and visualize scenarios to plan professional life and to motivate the necessary changes.

 

Another advantage of these theoretical reflections is that they focus us on what we want and not only on what we supposedly cannot. They also help us decide and make ourselves aware of our priorities: should these five minutes that I spend watching Netflix be spent learning Chinese?

 

  1. Do not learn professions, learn to be professional

“We know little about anything, so we can go wherever we want.” This idea of ​​the Nobel, Francis Crick expresses the fact that any subject or content can become a goal or professional vocation.

 

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