This is What You Need to Do to Succeed CareerMetis.com

This is What You Need to Do to Succeed â€" CareerMetis.com Everyone is looking for THE thing that will vault them, or their business, to success and riches.What is the nugget â€" the one thing that if you knock yourself out on â€" that will truly make a difference to your career?It drives me crazyevalevalThe experts and pundits promulgate their version of success and their approach typically is to shrink their advice down into one or two points they believe are the essence of winning.After all, if you can boil success down close to a single factor, people will more easily understand the advice Successful people understand that it is rarely the Hail Mary pass that sets them apart from others in the crowd, rather it’s the string of little achievements consistently delivered that separates them from their peers.2. Incremental gainsSuccessful careers are based on “baby steps”; small incremental gains â€" nano-inches â€" that purposely and relentlessly move toward the end goal in mind. The ability to distill the end game into a number of sm aller objectives is critical and the patience to achieve each one of them is essential.Short cuts are few and far between in today’s world full of complexities and uncertainty; doggedly pursuing small forward looking goals that serve the greater purpose is the most practical way to get things done and to be recognized as an achiever.3. MistakesI know of no successful individual who has made zero mistakes; quite the opposite. They all share three attributes: one, they have all made their fair share of mistakes; two, they learned from each mistake to minimize the chances of making the same mistake in the future and three, they tweaked their plan to reflect what they have learned from making the mistake.evalSuccess eventually is a function of the tries someone makes, and you can’t try a lot without stumbling along the way. Accept and welcome the fact you will make mistakes, just be sure they serve your personal development process and that you act quickly to remedy them.eval4. Pain toleranceWe live, work and play in an extremely complex environment. Organizations have their own political landscape, bureaucratic rules processes as well as personal bias that makes it exceedingly difficult to get anything done. What works on paper rarely works in the face of these forces; intellectual energy alone is woefully inadequate to accomplish anything.Progress depends on how much emotional energy someone is prepared to put into a task to see it through; no emotion = little or no progress.And it also depends on how much disappointment can be absorbed in the face of roadblocks and setbacks, while still looking for ways to continue moving forward. When obstacles are constantly encountered, one needs a high tolerance for “pain”; if not, defeat is inevitable.5. PassionEver see a successful person who is “sorta” interested in what they’re doing? I haven’t.In fact the profile of a winner contains these descriptors:passionatemindlessly drivenall intotally possessedd angerously committedThese traits are demonstrated by someone who is guided by right brain energy rather than left brain logic. Someone who understands that it is not theory and text book principles that drive results; rather the relentless energy applied in the face of perpetual roadblocks encountered along the way.6. ImperfectionSuccessful people don’t seek the perfect solution to anything because they know that perfection is a trap that robs them of valuable time and energy necessary to execute their solution and move forward.I have known people who were prepared to spend copious amounts of time to try and make their chosen path 20% “more perfect” that the approach they have in hand. It’s a travesty, really, because the best method to deliver a winning solution is to get busy implementing an imperfect solution and improve it on the run.evalPerfectionists don’t want to do anything. They are mesmerized by possibilities and are risk averse â€" traits of mediocrity not great ness.The intellectual master plan rarely yields a star.It’s more of the practical human traits that separates special successful people from the herd.The bottom lineWinning is all about baby steps and nano-inches. Pain tolerance and screw-ups. Trying and imperfection.Pay attention to these subjects if a successful career is your end game.