I saw a great speaker today. His name is Ron Budreau, and he is an entrepreneur and business coach. I found him very engaging, and he offered two pieces of advice closely related to career planning.
The first key to success that he offered was DWYSYWDWYSYWDI (Do what you said you would do when you said you would do it). It connects very closely to the concept of Credibility - that people will believe you will meet deadlines and do what you agree to do on time, but it only takes one or two failures to keep your word to lose your credibility, and building it back up is really, really difficult. And believe it or not, according to Ron, only about 10% of people manage to do this!
The second key to success that Ron offered was to have a goal (or several goals) that take you into various periods of the future (6 months, 6 years, 60 years old, etc). When you have a goal - and when you write it down (that was important) - your action and effort will be purposeful. It's really easy to be busy, and 'getting nowhere fast' if you don't have a goal in mind.
Ron described DWYSYWDWYSYWDI and Strategy/Goals as two axes on a graph that plots level of success.
I agree with him completely!
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