Regardless of your profession, business sector, or industry you work in, you want to be successful. There’s no doubt about this.
But why so few people ever experience career success?
First, let’s clarify Career Success versus Career Accomplishment.
There is still a lot of confusion over career success and career accomplishment. And actually, the difference between career success and career accomplishment is huge.
There are many examples of standards that have been conditioned by society to think career success is or what others expect of us. For example, job titles, promotions, degrees, great salary, outstanding performance, results of working on an exciting project, etc.
But these elements are career accomplishments.
Career accomplishments don’t make the same as career success.
Success designates happiness, whilst accomplishment doesn’t.
Career success is deeply personal and your definition of career success most definitely will change throughout your professional life. What was important to you in your early career, may have changed over time.
The traditional definition of career success is:
“Career success is a combination of achieving a reasonable level of financial stability while doing work you enjoy and then finding that you are also happy and fulfilled with your life and career choices as well”.
However, how you define your career success may differ from this or any other historical definition.
Career success is subjectively assessed on a mixture of standard measures such as money, results, and achievements, including more personal conditions:
Being valued, financial stability allowing desired lifestyle and choices, maintaining good health, begin recognized, flexibility to integrate work and life, have an impact, maintaining authenticity and integrity, being fulfilled and doing what’s meaningful…
Why not many people actually ever experience career success?
There are several main reasons:
They follow the career path that is introduced or driven by others (parents, society, friends, associations with others, past impressions).
They don’t assess or define what career success truthfully means to them.
They’re lacking purpose and clarity.
They resist taking the risks and fear failure.
They’re comfortable with the status quo.
How you define your career success is different from the traditional definition and from anyone else’s definition.
The bottom line is that making empowering choices instead of following what others are doing or what’s expected from you is what will help you sculpt your own career path.
The idea of your own career success is that you want to be you, your real you and what’s truly important to you only and you stand out from all the failures that you come into contact with every day.
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