professional-growth

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

Your personal and professional lives will have to go hand in hand and will have influence on each other.

Make sure the job you select complements your personal life the best.

Business is ultimately about people and we can't be effective in business without having some insight into people.

A person__ true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

In most work situations, there is usually more to see than what meets the eyes. A lot happens just beneath the surface.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging _ it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession _ think of earningfor life too.