The other day I saw a Facebook post by my friend Phil Dyer. It was such perfect career advice that I asked Phil if I could post it on this career success blog. He graciously agreed. Check it out…
Breaking news!! The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up and Move On, crashing into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get The Heck Over It. Reporting live from Quit Yer Complaining!!
Phil’s newsflash reminds me of Tweet 21 in my career advice book, Success Tweets. “You’re in charge! Commit to taking personal responsibility for creating the life and career success you want and deserve.”
In other words…get off the pity train, suck it up, move on and take personal responsibility for your life and career success.
When you take personal responsibility for your life and career success you stop blaming, complaining and being a victim. You take charge of your life. You demonstrate your commitment to taking personal responsibility for your career success by responding positively to the people and events and events in your life – especially when they are less than positive. I frequently offer this advice to my career success coach clients.
I had an opportunity to test myself on this one a while back. I got up very early to add a post to this career advice blog. When I got to my office, my computer was frozen. I could move the cursor, but could not actually open a document – or do anything else for that matter.
I was the first guy in line when the Geek Squad opened at 8:30. My buddy Nate was there. I showed him the machine and explained the problem. He found a minor virus, deleted a few files and said I was good to go. I went home, and the machine worked – for about a half hour. I went back to the Geek Squad and Nate worked on the problem for the second time.
When I got back to my office, I was able to post the blog and to get a podcast up on the net. Then it happened again. Completely frozen, unable to raise the volume to listen to the podcast, close the podcast application or open any other program.
I called Nate and told him I would bring the machine in for a full diagnostic – and pay the 24 hour service premium. I got back in my car, drove to the Geek Squad and dropped off the computer.
I had been meaning to read a couple of novels I had picked up the week before. I figured my computer problems presented an excellent opportunity to spend that afternoon and the following day doing just that.
However, in the middle of all this, I realized that I was being presented with a challenge to see if I could walk my talk when it comes to reacting positively to the negative events in my life. Reading novels instead of working would not be demonstrating my commitment to taking personal responsibility for my career success – even if no one else knew I blew off a day and a half.
I knew that I couldn’t do everything I wanted to do with my backup computer. But there were things I could do. I chose to figure out what I could accomplish without the use of my main machine and set out doing it. I could still write blog posts, even if I couldn’t post them. I could still continue developing career success mini courses. That’s what I did those days.
And that’s my career success coach advice to you – when you run into problems don’t complain about what you can’t do, figure out what you can do and then do it. Or as Phil Dyer would say, get off the pity train, suck it up and move on.
The common sense career success coach point here is simple. Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. They choose to respond positively to the people and events in their lives – especially the negative people and the unexpected and uncontrollable problems. They keep moving forward. They don’t get distracted in their quest to create the life and career success they want and deserve. They follow the career advice in Tweet 21 in Success Tweets. “You’re in charge! Commit to taking personal responsibility for creating the life and career success you want and deserve.” Have you committed to taking personal responsibility for your career success? How do you react when life throws those inevitable curve balls your way? Do you choose to move forward, finding ways around life’s little problems? As a career success coach, I hope so, because that’s the choice that will put you on the path to career success.
That’s my take on the career advice in Phil Dyer’s newsflash. What’s yours? Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment. As always, thanks for reading my musings on life and career success.
Bud
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