You finish your office work at 6 in the evening, you come home and go to bed around 12 midnight. The main question is how do you spend your time after work?
Do you watch Tv or use social media?
The activities that you perform between 6 am to 12pm-midnight, they are extremely important and usually the importance is far beyond your imagination.
Many people thought that their career depends upon 8 hours of office work and the efforts and energy you put at work. They believe their future growth depends upon their bosses and in the organization, they work.
However, the reality is pretty different from their thinking, to grow and progress in life you are literally on your own.
If you find somewhere in life you are stuck and not moving forward do not blame your bosses or your organization that they are responsible for this. Truth is that it's not your bosses or the organization that has failed to groom to himself but it's you that cannot move forward a single point.
1- Your activity at night matters the most
My major college was business management, but I expect to become a graphic designer. I practised day and night, picking up some freelance work to improve my designing skills. it requires a lot of effort and a certain time to get there. Fast and forward I just get promoted immediately and I realise that I no longer need to be involved in my designing work. To progress further, I had to go back to my basic education, yes business management and I did that.
After work hours as the night wears when my parents slept, I began learning new things to increase my knowledge. This took me some time but immediately, I began to realise that the investment that I've made on myself to learn new things started to giving me more positive results. If I have not learned new skills and invest time on myself I was towards pretty loss. Honestly almost any Succesful people I know, they've walked the same path.
2- Read more, anything will do!
Readers are leaders
If you want to get something in life, reading is the key it brings the knowledge. When you read, it opens your mind for new possibilities in life and it also prepares you for all the tough challenges in your personal and professional life.
3- Do some side projects
Side Gig, a part-time project or a freelancer job can bring you money, and of course, as a volunteer for some community work, you get acknowledge for your services and get fame. When you coordinate with people for work, you learn new skills, you learn how to do team management and allocate efforts and resources in an efficient manner. You learn, how different things work.
4- Build your connections
If you want to grow in your career, make sure that you build different connections with different people in order to accelerate your career path.
A strong network of relationship can enable you:
1- Gain knowledge and information from experts.
2- Help the organization to get more business.
3- Generating more income opportunities.
Another tip is networking online, LinkedIn precisely. Take a look at other people’s career developments on LinkedIn. Connect with them.
Why?
The reason is simple, who knows you might have just connected with your future employer, boss, or a colleague. Connections are powerful assets in personal and professional life and they help you excel further.
5- The change of your life, Starts tonight
Understand that starting today, whether its midnight evening or morning determines your future. From 6 am to 12 pm, you are free to do anything but if you choose wisely, you can lay down the foundation of your growth.
