Your Sorting Hat: On guaranteed failure, income formula and checking usefulness
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 26, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Are you struggling with a decision or concern?
Write down your thoughts. You will progress. "
II.
"When in doubt, choose the option that requires action.
That will make all the difference, while the world chooses inaction."
III.
"Failure is guaranteed. Something will fail tomorrow if not today.
Know how you will solve it. Instead of hoping or complaining."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Patrick Bet-David, CEO and author, offers solutions from strategies learnt in business - Your Next Five Moves -
"Increase (ing) your income is a formula. If you’re not fulfilled and happy with the current results in different areas of your life, it’s most likely due to your needing to make some adjustments in some of the formulas you’ve been using for a while."
Source: Book: Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
II.
Greg Mckeown, public speaker and author, warns against remaining busy and instead choosing and focusing on what matters in his book - Essentialism :
"Essentialists see trade-offs as an inherent part of life, not as an inherently negative part of life. Instead of asking, “What do I have to give up?” they ask, “What do I want to go big on?"
Source: Book: Essentialism by Greg Mckeown
1 Question
What are you still doing that is no longer useful to you?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times