The Career You'll Love

Everybody screws up. Guaranteed.

Worse than making a mistake, though, is when others use that to their advantage – to try to establish social superiority, to “make you learn,” to get something out of you.

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I’ve been thinking about how people get addicted to their habits. Some addictions are tough to break because of physical dependency. But most are more benign, and become the habits that run 95% of your day.

What’s interesting is that we may keep these habits, even when they don’t serve us anymore.

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You get your performance evaluation, which lists a whole bunch of things that you’ve done this year, and some strengths and weaknesses. What do you do?

You zoom immediately to the weaknesses. Everything else gets ignored.

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Here’s a powerful story from my colleague, Paul Duncan.

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen, filled three pots with water and placed them all on a high fire. Soon the pots came to the boil. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second, she placed eggs, and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. After twenty minutes she turned off the burners.

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January 1st is a day when many people think about the past and set resolutions in place for the coming year. It’s a powerful tradition, so it might be interesting to do the same thing for the course of your career.

To start, figure out how far along you are in your career path.

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As I talk to more and more owners of small businesses, I’m greatly encouraged. There’s an incredible number of innovative things happening out there. Part of it is out of desperation, sure. But more importantly, the lousy economy pushes people out of their comfort zone, because continuing on the same old path is no guarantee of success.

It never was, of course, but we got complacent. When things are booming, you can make lots of mistakes and grow your way out of them.

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Life is about learning. When you stop learning, you’re on the downward path.

But we have this outdated notion of learning: That you spend the first 18-25 years of your life getting educated, and then the rest of your life you merely USE what you learned. Fortunately, most people now recognize that this is entirely unrealistic. And may lead you to some bad decisions.

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