Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, how do you see yourself 10 years from now, what are your strategies to get there?
So first of all let us take some research about how this some IT professionals make their strategies enable them to be success.
How to keep achieving your goals
By Earl Nightingale
I like to define success as the progressive realization of a worthy goal. The purpose of this message is to tell you of a wonderful way to keep realizing -- to keep achieving -- your goals, one after another, in the years ahead.
A goal sometimes seems so far off, and our progress often appears to be so painfully slow, that we have a tendency to lose heart. It sometimes seems we'll never make the grade. And we come close to falling back into old habits that, while they may be comfortable now, lead to nowhere.
Well, there's a way to beat this. It's been used successfully by many of the world's most successful people, and it's been advocated by many of the greatest thinkers. It's to live successfully one day at a time!
The building blocks of a successful life
A lifetime is comprised of days, strung together into weeks, months and years. Let's reduce it to a single day, and then, still furthermore, to each task of that day.
A successful life is nothing more than a lot of successful days put together. It's going to take so many days to reach your goal. If this goal is to be reached in a minimum amount of time, every day must count.
Think of a single day as a building block with which you're building the tower of your life. Just as a stonemason can put only one stone in place at a time, you can live only one day at a time. And it's the way in which these stones are place that will determine the beauty and the strength of your tower. If each stone is successfully placed, the tower will be a success. If, on the other hand, the stones are put down in a hit-or-miss fashion, the whole tower is in danger. Now this may seem to be a rather elementary way of looking at it, but I want to make my point clear -- and it's a good and logical way of looking at a human life.
Putting this idea into practice
All right, then, let's take it one day at a time, from the time we wake up in the morning until we drop-off to sleep at night, keeping our goal in mind as often as possible.
Now, each day consists of a series of tasks -- tasks of all kinds. And the success of a day depends upon the successful completion of most of these tasks. If everything we do during the day is a success -- that is, done in the best fashion of which we are capable -- we can fall asleep that night in the comfortable knowledge that we've done our very best, that our day has been a success, that one more stone has been successfully put into place.
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork -- or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not so much the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. Gradually, you'll find yourself increasing the number of tasks and performing them all much more efficiently.
This is the way to really live!
resources:http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=132
Want to be more successful? Develop an attitude of service
By Chuck Frey
According to the late self-help expert Earl Nightingale, our success in life is directly proportional to the number of people we serve and the quality of that service. While this life principle may seem to be so simple as to be-self-evident, it's surprising the number of people who don't seem to be unaware that it applies to them. But, like any natural law, it does apply, to everyone.
Let's take a closer look at the relationship between your service and your compensation in life, and then explore some creative ways that you can enrich others -- and yourself -- by increasing your service to them.
Measuring your service
Earl Nightingale was a fan of visual metaphors as a tool for communicating important principles and concepts. To illustrate the relationship between service and compensation, he used the image of an apothecary scale -- the type of measuring device once used in pharmacies in the early part of the 20th century. It consisted of two bowls, hung from a horizontal arm. In one bowl, the pharmacist placed the medicine to be weighed. In the other bowl, he or she placed precisely calibrated metal weights, until the two sides of the scale were in balance -- in other words, until the arm was perfectly horizontal.
What does an old pharmacy scale have to do with our comparison of success and service? Imagine that one of the bowls is marked "compensation" and the other is marked "service." According to Nightingale, we only need to focus on the quality of the service we provide and the number of the people whom we serve -- the service side of the scale. The compensation will follow, in proportion to the service we offer to others. As you sow, so shall you reap.
Focus on service, not compensation
Many people, Nightingale complained, are too focused on increasing their compensation, without providing a commensurate increase in their service. Many people fall prey to an attitude of, "My employer isn't paying me enough, so I won't do any more for them." Others may feel stuck on the same job, year after year, but never make a personal commitment to learn more about their job or profession, and therefore increase their ability to serve their employer, and therefore their value.
Many organizations offer credit for continuing education as part of their compensation packages, yet these benefits are often chronically underutilized by workers. In short, the vast majority of people who complain about the lack of pay, fulfillment and opportunity in their careers are victims not of their jobs, but of the attitudes they hold about their jobs. In other words, these people are focusing their attention on the wrong side of the scale.
In order to increase our compensation, you must develop creative ways to increase your service -- and in so doing, set in motion a positive "boomerang effect" of increasing returns to yourself. For those who understand this principle, life is a grand adventure. These unique souls focus on the service side of the scale, and superior compensation follows in turn, in proportion to their service.
Strategies for improving your service
So how can you increase your service, and therefore your compensation? There are many creative ways to do this. One of the best strategies is to engage in continuous, ongoing learning in your field of study as well as other areas of interest to you. By developing a mindset of continuous learning, you are constantly feeding the raw material pile of your mind, which it can then draw upon when you're brainstorming.
For example, one of my "occupational hobbies" has been business creativity and innovation. I read every book and article I can get my hands on, I subscribe to creativity newsletters and I purchase and use tools designed to help me develop more and better innovative ideas. The results in my career have been outstanding, and my expanded ability to think creatively has had a very positive influence on all areas of my life. It is also resulted in a launch of the InnovationTools Web site you are visiting right now!
People who engage in continuous learning naturally tend to outgrow their jobs over a period of time, often resulting in promotions or better job offers. Most often, people are promoted because they have outgrown their current position, not because they have repeated the same level of experience year after year.
Another way to increase your service is to cultivate what's called an "insight outlook." In other words, learn from your experiences and your ongoing education, but always with an eye toward how you can apply it or adapt it to your current situation. Companies are always in need of fresh ideas, insights and outlooks, and they will pay the people who provide them and who can solve problems creatively.
Align yourself with opportunity
In addition, Earl Nightingale believed (and I agree) that people who concentrate on the service side of the scale find themselves profiting from all sorts of unique opportunities that others dismiss as "luck."
To use another metaphor, opportunities and ideas don't come into your life dressed as shiny gems or diamonds. Rather, they tend to appear like diamonds in the rough, or as opportunities dressed in work clothes. In other words, it's easy to look right at a situation that contains a potential opportunity, and overlook it. On the other hand, if you know what you're looking for, you can uncover these opportunities, often right under your own nose. You must then use your creative thinking and problem solving skills to hone them and shape them into the successes they will one day become.
resources: http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=115
River people vs. goal people
By Chuck Frey
The late self-help expert Earl Nightingale once explained that there are two types of people: river people and goal people. Both types of people can experience personal fulfillment and success in life, although in different ways.
Goal People
Most of us are undoubtedly familiar with goal people. They are the individuals who write down their objectives and timetables for reaching them, and then focus on attaining them, one by one.
By laying out a roadmap of future achievements in front of them, goal people give their creative minds a clear set of stimuli to work on. Their subconscious minds can then get to work incubating ideas and insights that will help them to reach their goals.
To use a football analogy, goal people need an end zone or a set of (what else?) goal posts, upon which they can focus their creative energies.
River People
River people, on the other hand, don't like to follow such a structured route to success. They are called river people because they are happiest and most fulfilled when they are wading in a rich "river" of interest -- a subject or profession about which they are very passionate. While they may not have a concrete plan with measurable goals, river people are often successful because they are so passionate about their area of interest. This, in turn, helps them to recognize breakthrough opportunities that may not even be visible on the mental radar screens of the more narrowly focused goal people.
River people are explorers, continually seeking out learning opportunities and new experiences. For river people, joy comes from the journey, not from reaching the destination -- exactly the opposite of goal people.
From the standpoint of creativity, river people are more likely to benefit from serendipity, because they tend to be more open to new ideas, points of view and insights than single-minded, focused goal people.
Recognizing both qualities in yourself.
Most people are a combination of these two personality types. I know I am. In my full-time job, I am expected to be goal oriented. I have specific personal and departmental objectives for which I'm responsible.
At the same time, however, I get the most "juice" out of being an explorer, learning new skills, collecting information and writing about innovation and technology -- and nurturing this growing Web site! So at different times, I embody characteristics of both a goal person and a river person. Likewise, most of you embody traits of both personality types at one time or another.
The important point is to recognize and nurture both aspects of your personality. Joyce Wycoff, in her new book, "A Year of Waking Up," tells a story that illustrates this in a memorable way. When she reached the age of 50, she felt curiously unfulfilled. At the same time, a little, persistent voice inside her was urging her on to explore new activities and experiences. She answered that call, taking art classes, keeping a personal journal, writing poetry and pursuing other artistic endeavors. It has been a marvelous, exciting, enlightening journey ever since.
"This journey has made me wonder anew how much there is to ourselves that remains undiscovered," she reflects. "Are we like a fractal (image) that, as we zoom in, reveals ever more patterns, each wonderful and beautiful?"
Indeed, there is so much to explore and so much to know that we ought to make time in our lives for both our goal and river personas. Both bring richness and fullness to our lives, like yin and yang sides of our personality.
If you're predominantly a goal person, why not slow down and smell the roses, as our friend Joyce Wycoff did? Take an art class, just for the fun of it. Try reading different magazines. Talk to different people, or go to different seminars or classes outside of your core competencies, with the goal of opening yourself up to new experiences. I think you'll be amazed at the richness these new inputs bring to your life.
If you're predominantly a river person, you may want to try brainstorming a handful of goals for yourself, to give yourself a bit more focus and direction. For example, you may want to jot down lists of books you'd like to read, knowledge or skills you'd like to acquire or places you'd like to visit.
Finally, be on the lookout for new experiences and learning opportunities on a daily basis. You never know when they're going to appear -- the key is to recognize them when they do!
resources: http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=97
As I can see 10 from now for me
As I can see 10 years from now, my target in that range of time is to become an it analyst/database administrator/network administrator/a manager in a company.
As I read those strategies that we research there are lots of points of views that are really true enabled to be success. First of that enable you to be success it says that you should know your strength and weaknesses or measuring your service. In measuring yourself the strength and your weakness you will know how to take risk to avoid risk and the resistance to challenge those risks. Another strategy is improving yourself, it means that if we know our strength and weakness of course we know our limitations, so, from that we can also give some thoughts on how to develop ourselves enable to grow our self capability then from that we will be more competitive person. The third is determining your goal and focus on it and also make a strategic plan for your goal or ambition in life. Another is aligning yourself from opportunity, as what i said above knowing on how to take a risk to avoid risk and to challenge those risk, so from that seeking from opportunity is very important tool also to develop the right job for us, if you see you have a lots of opportunity to choose, make sure that you will choose the right job or opportunity for you enable you to be more competitive in that field you choose and also you can handle it well. If you think you have less opportunity make a way or some technique to find it, don't always wait for a chance but seeking the chance. Another is that where you belong like the term the river people and the goal people, where you want to be. The river people are those people i think that are don’t have a straight goal to have, if there where another opportunity that they will see in their way they will attempt to change their plan. Another I think those people are just relying where many people want to go , if the majority of their decision of the people they just follow it like a river flowing where as the goal people are those
people that don’t stop reaching their goal if they do not reach it. They are people who want to reach their goal one by one. And I think with the 2 kinds of people I want to be enable for me to achieve my goal I would prefer to be at the goal people because for me reaching your goal is truly a difficult task to do so you should be focus on it no other things
to mind but only how to reach that goal and after you achieve your goal that's the time that you think another goal you plan to achieve.
So first of all let us take some research about how this some IT professionals make their strategies enable them to be success.
How to keep achieving your goals
By Earl Nightingale
I like to define success as the progressive realization of a worthy goal. The purpose of this message is to tell you of a wonderful way to keep realizing -- to keep achieving -- your goals, one after another, in the years ahead.
A goal sometimes seems so far off, and our progress often appears to be so painfully slow, that we have a tendency to lose heart. It sometimes seems we'll never make the grade. And we come close to falling back into old habits that, while they may be comfortable now, lead to nowhere.
Well, there's a way to beat this. It's been used successfully by many of the world's most successful people, and it's been advocated by many of the greatest thinkers. It's to live successfully one day at a time!
The building blocks of a successful life
A lifetime is comprised of days, strung together into weeks, months and years. Let's reduce it to a single day, and then, still furthermore, to each task of that day.
A successful life is nothing more than a lot of successful days put together. It's going to take so many days to reach your goal. If this goal is to be reached in a minimum amount of time, every day must count.
Think of a single day as a building block with which you're building the tower of your life. Just as a stonemason can put only one stone in place at a time, you can live only one day at a time. And it's the way in which these stones are place that will determine the beauty and the strength of your tower. If each stone is successfully placed, the tower will be a success. If, on the other hand, the stones are put down in a hit-or-miss fashion, the whole tower is in danger. Now this may seem to be a rather elementary way of looking at it, but I want to make my point clear -- and it's a good and logical way of looking at a human life.
Putting this idea into practice
All right, then, let's take it one day at a time, from the time we wake up in the morning until we drop-off to sleep at night, keeping our goal in mind as often as possible.
Now, each day consists of a series of tasks -- tasks of all kinds. And the success of a day depends upon the successful completion of most of these tasks. If everything we do during the day is a success -- that is, done in the best fashion of which we are capable -- we can fall asleep that night in the comfortable knowledge that we've done our very best, that our day has been a success, that one more stone has been successfully put into place.
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork -- or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not so much the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. Gradually, you'll find yourself increasing the number of tasks and performing them all much more efficiently.
This is the way to really live!
resources:http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=132
Want to be more successful? Develop an attitude of service
By Chuck Frey
According to the late self-help expert Earl Nightingale, our success in life is directly proportional to the number of people we serve and the quality of that service. While this life principle may seem to be so simple as to be-self-evident, it's surprising the number of people who don't seem to be unaware that it applies to them. But, like any natural law, it does apply, to everyone.
Let's take a closer look at the relationship between your service and your compensation in life, and then explore some creative ways that you can enrich others -- and yourself -- by increasing your service to them.
Measuring your service
Earl Nightingale was a fan of visual metaphors as a tool for communicating important principles and concepts. To illustrate the relationship between service and compensation, he used the image of an apothecary scale -- the type of measuring device once used in pharmacies in the early part of the 20th century. It consisted of two bowls, hung from a horizontal arm. In one bowl, the pharmacist placed the medicine to be weighed. In the other bowl, he or she placed precisely calibrated metal weights, until the two sides of the scale were in balance -- in other words, until the arm was perfectly horizontal.
What does an old pharmacy scale have to do with our comparison of success and service? Imagine that one of the bowls is marked "compensation" and the other is marked "service." According to Nightingale, we only need to focus on the quality of the service we provide and the number of the people whom we serve -- the service side of the scale. The compensation will follow, in proportion to the service we offer to others. As you sow, so shall you reap.
Focus on service, not compensation
Many people, Nightingale complained, are too focused on increasing their compensation, without providing a commensurate increase in their service. Many people fall prey to an attitude of, "My employer isn't paying me enough, so I won't do any more for them." Others may feel stuck on the same job, year after year, but never make a personal commitment to learn more about their job or profession, and therefore increase their ability to serve their employer, and therefore their value.
Many organizations offer credit for continuing education as part of their compensation packages, yet these benefits are often chronically underutilized by workers. In short, the vast majority of people who complain about the lack of pay, fulfillment and opportunity in their careers are victims not of their jobs, but of the attitudes they hold about their jobs. In other words, these people are focusing their attention on the wrong side of the scale.
In order to increase our compensation, you must develop creative ways to increase your service -- and in so doing, set in motion a positive "boomerang effect" of increasing returns to yourself. For those who understand this principle, life is a grand adventure. These unique souls focus on the service side of the scale, and superior compensation follows in turn, in proportion to their service.
Strategies for improving your service
So how can you increase your service, and therefore your compensation? There are many creative ways to do this. One of the best strategies is to engage in continuous, ongoing learning in your field of study as well as other areas of interest to you. By developing a mindset of continuous learning, you are constantly feeding the raw material pile of your mind, which it can then draw upon when you're brainstorming.
For example, one of my "occupational hobbies" has been business creativity and innovation. I read every book and article I can get my hands on, I subscribe to creativity newsletters and I purchase and use tools designed to help me develop more and better innovative ideas. The results in my career have been outstanding, and my expanded ability to think creatively has had a very positive influence on all areas of my life. It is also resulted in a launch of the InnovationTools Web site you are visiting right now!
People who engage in continuous learning naturally tend to outgrow their jobs over a period of time, often resulting in promotions or better job offers. Most often, people are promoted because they have outgrown their current position, not because they have repeated the same level of experience year after year.
Another way to increase your service is to cultivate what's called an "insight outlook." In other words, learn from your experiences and your ongoing education, but always with an eye toward how you can apply it or adapt it to your current situation. Companies are always in need of fresh ideas, insights and outlooks, and they will pay the people who provide them and who can solve problems creatively.
Align yourself with opportunity
In addition, Earl Nightingale believed (and I agree) that people who concentrate on the service side of the scale find themselves profiting from all sorts of unique opportunities that others dismiss as "luck."
To use another metaphor, opportunities and ideas don't come into your life dressed as shiny gems or diamonds. Rather, they tend to appear like diamonds in the rough, or as opportunities dressed in work clothes. In other words, it's easy to look right at a situation that contains a potential opportunity, and overlook it. On the other hand, if you know what you're looking for, you can uncover these opportunities, often right under your own nose. You must then use your creative thinking and problem solving skills to hone them and shape them into the successes they will one day become.
resources: http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=115
River people vs. goal people
By Chuck Frey
The late self-help expert Earl Nightingale once explained that there are two types of people: river people and goal people. Both types of people can experience personal fulfillment and success in life, although in different ways.
Goal People
Most of us are undoubtedly familiar with goal people. They are the individuals who write down their objectives and timetables for reaching them, and then focus on attaining them, one by one.
By laying out a roadmap of future achievements in front of them, goal people give their creative minds a clear set of stimuli to work on. Their subconscious minds can then get to work incubating ideas and insights that will help them to reach their goals.
To use a football analogy, goal people need an end zone or a set of (what else?) goal posts, upon which they can focus their creative energies.
River People
River people, on the other hand, don't like to follow such a structured route to success. They are called river people because they are happiest and most fulfilled when they are wading in a rich "river" of interest -- a subject or profession about which they are very passionate. While they may not have a concrete plan with measurable goals, river people are often successful because they are so passionate about their area of interest. This, in turn, helps them to recognize breakthrough opportunities that may not even be visible on the mental radar screens of the more narrowly focused goal people.
River people are explorers, continually seeking out learning opportunities and new experiences. For river people, joy comes from the journey, not from reaching the destination -- exactly the opposite of goal people.
From the standpoint of creativity, river people are more likely to benefit from serendipity, because they tend to be more open to new ideas, points of view and insights than single-minded, focused goal people.
Recognizing both qualities in yourself.
Most people are a combination of these two personality types. I know I am. In my full-time job, I am expected to be goal oriented. I have specific personal and departmental objectives for which I'm responsible.
At the same time, however, I get the most "juice" out of being an explorer, learning new skills, collecting information and writing about innovation and technology -- and nurturing this growing Web site! So at different times, I embody characteristics of both a goal person and a river person. Likewise, most of you embody traits of both personality types at one time or another.
The important point is to recognize and nurture both aspects of your personality. Joyce Wycoff, in her new book, "A Year of Waking Up," tells a story that illustrates this in a memorable way. When she reached the age of 50, she felt curiously unfulfilled. At the same time, a little, persistent voice inside her was urging her on to explore new activities and experiences. She answered that call, taking art classes, keeping a personal journal, writing poetry and pursuing other artistic endeavors. It has been a marvelous, exciting, enlightening journey ever since.
"This journey has made me wonder anew how much there is to ourselves that remains undiscovered," she reflects. "Are we like a fractal (image) that, as we zoom in, reveals ever more patterns, each wonderful and beautiful?"
Indeed, there is so much to explore and so much to know that we ought to make time in our lives for both our goal and river personas. Both bring richness and fullness to our lives, like yin and yang sides of our personality.
If you're predominantly a goal person, why not slow down and smell the roses, as our friend Joyce Wycoff did? Take an art class, just for the fun of it. Try reading different magazines. Talk to different people, or go to different seminars or classes outside of your core competencies, with the goal of opening yourself up to new experiences. I think you'll be amazed at the richness these new inputs bring to your life.
If you're predominantly a river person, you may want to try brainstorming a handful of goals for yourself, to give yourself a bit more focus and direction. For example, you may want to jot down lists of books you'd like to read, knowledge or skills you'd like to acquire or places you'd like to visit.
Finally, be on the lookout for new experiences and learning opportunities on a daily basis. You never know when they're going to appear -- the key is to recognize them when they do!
resources: http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/SuccessDetails.asp?a=97
As I can see 10 from now for me
As I can see 10 years from now, my target in that range of time is to become an it analyst/database administrator/network administrator/a manager in a company.
As I read those strategies that we research there are lots of points of views that are really true enabled to be success. First of that enable you to be success it says that you should know your strength and weaknesses or measuring your service. In measuring yourself the strength and your weakness you will know how to take risk to avoid risk and the resistance to challenge those risks. Another strategy is improving yourself, it means that if we know our strength and weakness of course we know our limitations, so, from that we can also give some thoughts on how to develop ourselves enable to grow our self capability then from that we will be more competitive person. The third is determining your goal and focus on it and also make a strategic plan for your goal or ambition in life. Another is aligning yourself from opportunity, as what i said above knowing on how to take a risk to avoid risk and to challenge those risk, so from that seeking from opportunity is very important tool also to develop the right job for us, if you see you have a lots of opportunity to choose, make sure that you will choose the right job or opportunity for you enable you to be more competitive in that field you choose and also you can handle it well. If you think you have less opportunity make a way or some technique to find it, don't always wait for a chance but seeking the chance. Another is that where you belong like the term the river people and the goal people, where you want to be. The river people are those people i think that are don’t have a straight goal to have, if there where another opportunity that they will see in their way they will attempt to change their plan. Another I think those people are just relying where many people want to go , if the majority of their decision of the people they just follow it like a river flowing where as the goal people are those
people that don’t stop reaching their goal if they do not reach it. They are people who want to reach their goal one by one. And I think with the 2 kinds of people I want to be enable for me to achieve my goal I would prefer to be at the goal people because for me reaching your goal is truly a difficult task to do so you should be focus on it no other things
to mind but only how to reach that goal and after you achieve your goal that's the time that you think another goal you plan to achieve.
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