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How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by lite16nl: 1:16am On Jun 14, 2021
How Successful People Achieve Their Goals

There are habits and behaviours that sets successful people apart from others, these attributes are clearly responsible for their achievements overtime, we will look at few of them here:


1. Planning and Timely Actions
Planning and timely action both plays an important role in achieving major goals. Successful CEOs and professionals – architects, engineers and project managers for example – have developed strong planning skills and timely action approaches. When working toward annual goals, it is always helpful to plan 1-3 actions per time to be accomplished on timely basis. Avoid procrastination as much as possible.

2. Self-Discipline
The possession of self discipline enables you to choose, and then persevere with actions, thoughts and behavior, which lead to improvement and success. It also gives you the power and inner strength to overcome addictions, procrastination and laziness and helps to follow through whatever you are trying to achieve until it becomes very successful.

3. Frugal Living
In reality, wealthy people are the most conscious when it comes to spending, they spend on things that gives them a form of value back or returns, whether in the now or in the future. This is the main reason why the money keeps coming back. They also focus more on needs than wants. Living frugally is one of the surest ways of achieving your goals and aspirations. It gives you the opportunity to filter out unnecessary things that makes you loose money and helps you create a system of return.

4. Skills Acquisition
Skill is a key used in opening doors of fortune. As water is very essential to human life; so is skill needed in the life of every serious minded human being. Skills can do a lot of great work in the life of every living soul. Lack of skills is a major cause of corruption. The importance of skill acquisition includes self employment, diverse job opportunities, employment generation, effective function, and crime reduction.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest got to where they are today because they've acquired certain skills and were able to nuture and turn these skills into a cash cow. Your degree is definitely not enough, you need to develop or learn a skill that you can then use to create solution to various life's challenges and get rewarded for it.

5. Seek Expert Help
Disappointments and challenges are part of the picture when you work on challenging goals. Fortunately, many other successful people have sought outside inspiration to get through tough times. Always reach out to those who are already successful in your field or niche. They always have the answers to most challenges based on their own journey and personal experience.

6. Networking
Always be on the look out for Networking in your field or industry, there are people in your industry who are ready to show you the ropes only if you are willing to network. Those who are ahead of you can help you bridge that gap that separates you from your desired destination or goals.
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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by lindaijeka: 10:59am On Jun 14, 2021
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by inoki247: 5:12pm On Jun 14, 2021
Motivational Speaker...

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by WoodWorkingBox: 5:12pm On Jun 14, 2021
Good
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by ictjobber: 5:12pm On Jun 14, 2021
By working smart

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Thinktwicemybro: 5:12pm On Jun 14, 2021
You can be successful when you are determined, just as we were determined to delete adamu garbage app from play store and we did it!

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Ask4bigneyo(m): 5:13pm On Jun 14, 2021
Nice thread

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by design106: 5:13pm On Jun 14, 2021
cool
Nice Tips.
Need to get myself to at least try one.

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by SenatePresdo(m): 5:13pm On Jun 14, 2021
Nice one OP.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Romans 9:16

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by bigdammyj: 5:13pm On Jun 14, 2021
Noted
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Tos87(m): 5:14pm On Jun 14, 2021
Sure thing ..number 2 and 4 sure pass cool
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Gravity56: 5:14pm On Jun 14, 2021
I think a lot of nairalanders are jobless

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by elmessiahs(m): 5:14pm On Jun 14, 2021
True
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by HRSweetness(f): 5:16pm On Jun 14, 2021
ictjobber:
By working smart

What does this mean?

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by HRSweetness(f): 5:17pm On Jun 14, 2021
Gravity56:
I think a lot of nairalanders are jobless

lipsrsealed
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by nonyene: 5:17pm On Jun 14, 2021
These are not too hard to comprehend.
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Cutehector(m): 5:17pm On Jun 14, 2021
Networking is key. All these nairaland girls will never have sense.
Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by HRSweetness(f): 5:17pm On Jun 14, 2021
Networking is very key, skiils acquisition is paramount. Infact all the points are on point. You however missed a very very critical point which is consistency. @lite16nl wink

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by The5DME(m): 5:21pm On Jun 14, 2021
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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by 1realBobby(m): 5:22pm On Jun 14, 2021
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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by katlynf73: 5:22pm On Jun 14, 2021
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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Danny50: 5:22pm On Jun 14, 2021
Educative but have this in mind we all have different ways in making it.

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by WaffenSS(m): 5:23pm On Jun 14, 2021
Bullshit

If this nonsense were real the author would be among the billionaires they mentioned

Success is 99% pure luck

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by MajorOvakporaye(f): 5:23pm On Jun 14, 2021
Nairaland people, that guy who posts SALE OF POWER BANK on every thread is a big SCAMMER. He does not have anything to sell. PATRONIZE HIM AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by HRSweetness(f): 5:24pm On Jun 14, 2021
Cutehector:
Networking is key. All these nairaland girls will never have sense.

So you're part of the female bashing NL boys right And how can you expect a senseless gal to network with sensible people like yourself? After all, likes attract.

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Re: How Successful People Achieve Their Career Goals by Nobody: 5:25pm On Jun 14, 2021
There is no rule book to be successful in Nigeria. Just be ruthless, manipulative , crude terrific . You could be privileged if you are a 'COW'.

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