Be Excellent at Anything
Despite high unemployment figures and abject poverty in many parts of the world, there exists an equally high number of gainfully employed individuals who claim they feel disengaged in their job. This very inequality urges people across the board to re-evaluate their lives to become more self-aware; while it is one way to recognize our successes and failures, it also gives us a better understanding of who we are, what we are trying to achieve, realize what we are doing that is either effective in developing our life or what we are doing that is slowing us down, and what we can do to become more self-reliant, forthright in making beneficial life choices, and increase productivity–on the job and off. Living a balanced life means questioning the value of investing in the core pre-requisites toward upgrading the quality of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual existence. Baby Steps While a complete turnaround can be daunting, small changes in the way we approach life’s demands can be very significant. If you are finding it difficult to land the perfect job because you lack specific skills and practical experience, enroll in short courses to improve your understanding of the field you are interested in. Volunteer your services to organizations to gain practical experience. Develop an entrepreneurial mindset by identifying weaknesses in your skills set; attend a workshop on marketing and sales. Start a small business; it can be a great source of information and practical experience with respect to improving your business skills. Read business, industrial and technological publications; this will keep you well informed, help you spot upcoming trends and innovations, and keep track of industry leaders. Join organizations such as toastmasters to improve your communication skills, people skills, leadership skills, and negotiation skills, as well as boost your confidence and self-esteem. Self-talk and self-compassion are vital components of becoming more self-aware to dispel a negative mindset, especially if you are feeling disengaged in your current job or unemployed. By allowing the development of a positive self-regard you will awaken your consciousness to recognize new opportunities and solutions to problems, nurture skills with discipline, and gain the emotional wisdom to approach challenges with enthusiasm. With experience, you will better understand that self-regard establishes standards for thinking about possibilities. Challenge Yourself To create and sustain high productivity input from any country’s labor force demands constant access to education opportunities, particularly unskilled youth, job-seekers, and employees that are misplaced in jobs they are not suited to. Besides empowering job creation in both the formal and informal sectors, developed and developing countries need more entrepreneurs to stimulate self-employment opportunities. Business owners need to engage more employees, tapping the full extent of their talents, skills, and ideas to expand domestic markets and grow their county’s national economy. However, research shows that in today’s economic climate many workers who work for an employer are actively disengaged. This low level of employee productivity presents a startling challenge to emerging-market countries. The general consensus among social experts is that engagement varies by education level and job type, namely that employees in professional, managerial, sales, service, and administrative roles are significantly more engaged compared to employees in jobs that involve physical labor such as installation, construction, mining and manufacturing. Invest in Innovation Social Scientists contend that any endeavor to better prepare human capital to identify their true vocational calling must be coupled with a strategy for advancing innovation. The consumer market is constantly changing and it is up to forward-thinking individuals and teams to propagate this evolutionary transition with new inventions, to not only make our lives better...
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I’m a published author of four business books and have written a number of self-study tutorials [creative writing; editing and proofreading; business writing; and self-publishing] and an eBook [Workplace Harmony]. I am an experienced writer, editor and publisher. 
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