It’s your job and you have to do your job. While position itself fits well with your expertise and passion, it certainly plays a crucial role in the success of your career or success at work. Your rituals and routines in the office can affect the happiness and productivity, which includes what you do before and after work as well as on your working days.
It never matters if you just starting out your career or if you have years of experience behind you. Make sure that you have the right attitude and your approach is vital. Having the right attitude doesn’t come accidentally, it comes from learning the best working practices and habits.
Daily Habits That Can Boost Your Success At Work
1Self-motivation
There’s a saying that if you’re standing tall, then you’re going backwards. This is especially true when it comes to career. Are you the one who is happy with current skill set or actively look to improve? If it’s the latter, then you are the sort of person most bosses are looking for. Put yourself forward to learn new skills and training courses, the more you expand your skills the more valuable you become to other budding employers.
2Commercially minded
Basically, this is about being positive and eliminating yourself from the individual bubble. Think about the higher aims of the business you work for. Where can things improve, where can value be added more? Create an overall vision of the business you work for in your head, and you will find a number of new ways to make brand awareness, revenue or any other goals your senior managers might have.
3Ownership
Nothing is better for a manager than seeing her or his employees energetically taking ownership of projects. Likewise, no one wants to be seen as the one who pass the money. If it falls under your remit, make sure that you are the one who sees it through, even if you unavoidably have to hand over certain aspects of it.
4Focus
Have the ability to ignore ‘noise’. This clearly means being able to prioritize between the non-essential and essential, and by focusing your energy on things which will add the most value. Many employees get caught up nice to have activities rather than working for the things which are more serious in the business. The other benefit of prioritizing your workload is the quality that ends up being far better. If you have dozen of things, you need to get done, then produce outstanding results for the most important ones, rather than ordinary results on all twelve.
[Also Read: Working from Home Motivation Tips]
5Self-reflective
Have the habit of regularly assessing your work and personal performance. At regular intervals analyze what you’ve done, how your businesses have performed and what you need to do differently. By having this ability to reflect and also criticize yourself at times. Make sure lessons are learnt at every step of the way.
If you want to be one of those, who always look forward to move and encourage themselves, then you need to have the right kind of working habits in which will lead you to reach success.
-Nikisha Uddagiri
