How to Earn More and Achieve Success in Your Career

Your ability to earn more and achieve success in your career will be based on three simple factors: what you do, how well you do it and the difficulty of replacing you. This blog post will be focused on discussing these three factors and giving practical tips on how to achieve success in these three areas.  

1.       What you do.

This is the very foundation of your success in your career; that is your career choice. It is important that you choose your career based on your talents. Your talents can be seen in those things that you are really good at or can be good at, and you find your passion, joy and derive a sense of purpose doing. Napoleon Hill once wrote that the key to success in America is for you to “find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it”. The truth is that you can only give your very best in the work you enjoy doing. Being in a job that someone is ill suited for can lead to great struggle, but being in the perfect field of work can lead to more progress, success and fulfilment. You may want to check out how to discover your talent for more information on this.

2.       How well you do it.

To be successful in your career, you must
commit to excellence; to become the best at what you do. Brian Tracy said, “The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and below average rewards, under achievement, failure and frustration for below average results”. The following tips can help you achieve excellence in your career:

·         You must first work on your self-image and self-confidence. You might be discomfited by the performance of the top persons in your field of career, and may be tempted to talk down on your chances of making it to the top. But you have to realize that no one is better or smarter than you, and that your inability to achieve the results that the bests are achieving is because you have not learned the skills that they have which is absolutely learnable. Your self-talks affect your self-identity. Robin Sharma said, “Your income is a function of your self-identity”. You may also want to check out the power of self-talk as it affects your self-identity and success.

·         Make it a goal to develop yourself into becoming the best in your field. This involves increasing your knowledge and skill by reading books relevant to your career, listening to educational audios, attending seminars and workshops, talking with a mentor, watching skill-building videos and applying what you have learned. Be willing to pay any price, make any sacrifice to be the best at what you do

·         Be consistent in increasing your earning ability by continuously working on the skill that will have the most impact in your career. Reflect on the most important skill or project that if you develop or work on flawlessly in the next four months that would become a game changer for you in your organization or marketplace, and start working on that project or developing that skill. Remember, excellence is a lifetime journey. 

3.       The difficulty in replacing you.

To know how indispensable you are, you can decide to conduct an anonymous survey of your performance. The survey is filled by your peers, subordinates or even your boss, and the answers on the survey is summarized and given to you. I hope you have a great relationship with those people, and you will be open to the result of the survey.

This factor is a more reason for you to constantly keep abreast of the recent developments, innovations and technologies in your field. Thus, to remain indispensable, you must be able to observe the changing trends of technologies, developments and innovations, and be quick to adapt to those changes by developing the requisite skills. 

Also, to remain indispensable, you must learn to overdeliver on your job by providing more initiative to your organization and projects. Make sure everything you touch become better than you met it. Become so valuable that even your absent is felt. You may want to check out the beauty in work.

Thank you so much for taking time to read this blog post. I hope this has provided more value and has been quite helpful to you. Please recommend this blog post to someone that may find it helpful too. You can also leave any helpful insight you might want to share on this topic in the comment section below.

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Lebari-Dick Leteh has deepest desire to serve, improve, uplift, and enrich people's lives with his books, blog and other works. He is the author of 'Truths About Talent' and 'The Good News'.