OPTIMIZING YOUR CAPACITY IN YOUR CHOSEN CAREER-PART 2

SAINTLY PRACTICES FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CAPACITY IN A CHOSEN CAREER

It is difficult to make a make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.For effective capacity optimization, our personalities, talents and gifts must be stretched without breaking in the midst of momentary odds.The following practices among others can be adopted for capacity optimization in our chosen careers.

SINCERE CREATION OF A NICHE: Choose a niche you have more intrest where you hope to concentrate your energies.

STEP BY STEP FOLLOWING OF A MENTOR: Whatever may be your career; there are people who have been there before you. In your chosen career, pick an achiever, follow his records and let his record constantly inspire you to do more. To exceed his records should be your goal. Given enough time, all trophies shall be trashed by someone else, make yourself that person. Be resourceful in all you do.

SET ADEQUATE TARGET FOR SELF DEVELOPMENT: We have never been better exposed to information than in recent times. The internet has brought the largest libraries in the world into our bedrooms. You can get abundant information that could build your capacity for success in your chosen career. Hence, avoid intellectual laziness. Self-development is a booster and an in-road to great achievement. Learn new skills, be creative and innovative.

SEASONAL ATTENDANCE OF RELEVANT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS: Conference center are to modern professionals what Mar’s Hill was to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers of Paul’s day.
It is a place for sharing new ideas to shape our focus in chosen career. You can employ divine provision and protection from the Lord.

SATISFACTORY NETWORK WITH OTHERS: Facilities and information are not evenly distributed to every member of the same profession. We need to network. The success of the Human Genome project is due to network among researchers in different parts of the world.

STRONG IDENTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATION WITH OTHERS: Working with people of endurance and tenacity of purpose will help you to the top.

STRIVE LAWFULLY FOR EXCELLENCE: You must strive to work hard and achieve excellence in your chosen career. While you are doing this, you must keep to the rule of the game. Those who plagiarize will jeopardize and ruin their career. Never compromise. Rely and trust in God, He will take you to your desired haven.

OPTIMIIZING YOUR CAPACITY IN YOUR CHOSEN CAREER -PART 1

God the creator of heaven and earth endowed everyman with abilities for success and execellence.The human brain for example,has an incredible capacity of storing as much as one hundred trillion facts,the mind can handle fifteen thousand decisions a second, and the tongue can taste one part of quinine in two hundred million parts of water.All these inherent abilities in man complement the saying that “the mind is everything; what you think, you become”. Unfortunately, remained dormant, undeveloped and unexplored is about three-quarters of this creative inner ability.
In our own minds are all our limitations. The mind is the natural protector of the body. Without cultivation a soil, no matter how rich it may be cannot be productive, so also is the mind.It cannot produce good results. Therefore, to come out of mediocrity and enter into the realm of full capacity optimization there must be optimism and strong passion for excellence.

SALIENT PRINCIPLES OF CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION IN A CHOSEN CAREER

If we govern our actions and make all our exertions contribute to the fulfilling of some great purpose in life, there is no limitation to what we can achieve in life. Our careers should be taken up with a brave heart and with a determination to persist and persevere until success crowns our efforts. To what we can achieve there is no limit.
Persistence is the secret of capacity optimization. Dr Orison Warden says “We tend to realize in the type what we hold in the thought and vigorously struggle towards.” Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance.
The following salient principles are secrets to capacity optimization in any chosen career:RE

RETURN TO THE CREATOR: Allow God to be the center of your life’s endeavours. If you are connected to God, He will give you the elasticity to stretch to your ultimate capacity without breaking.

REFORM YOUR ANTI-ENGINEER: “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”. We need a change in the way we think to be able to optimally use our capacity to promote our career. Behaviour is motivated by a belief, and action is engineered by attitude. The way you think about yourself and your career affects the way you feel, which in turn affects the way you act.

RESOLVE TO HAVE SINGLENESS OF HEART: Everyone is driven by something. Some are driven by the need for approval, some by materialism. Resist all distractions and focus your energies on your purpose for living, which is to serve God and make a success of your career. You can only be effective when you become selective.

RIGHTLY UNWRAP AND PUT YOUR POTENTIAL INTO USE: Studies have revealed that an average person possesses 500 - 700 different skills and abilities. You can use many of these skills and abilities to succeed in your chosen career. Remember, unused potentials remain dormant like untapped gold.

REAL FAITH FOR CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION: Faith keep you moving and growing stronger.

REMAIN PERSISTENT IN COMMITMENT: Commitment is an attitude that determines our altitude. The persistence commitment of David Livingstone lead to his remarkable discovery of the Portuguese Zambezi and the Nile.

REKINDLE THE PRAYERFUL SPIRIT: Prayer is the wing the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. Prayer brings down the power of God and breaks the alabaster box of our potentials for its fragrance to influence to fill our domain.

How To Achieve Success Without Struggle

Friday, 16 May 2008 - Jordan Cheng
Is it possible to achieve success without struggle, despite what most of us have been taught from our younger days that success is impossible without massive hard work and sufferings?

As you go through stages of life, the painful reality you have to contend with is: Even hard work and struggle does not guarantee success. To most people, success seems like a mystery, a puzzle. Despite pain-staking application of the universal rules and principles taught by the gurus, success remains elusive.
The irony, as you may also have noticed, is that some people seemed to have gained success so easily. These people are often deemed to be the lucky ones, with unexplainable factors that guide them to do the right thing at the right time.
What is this missing linking of success? Is it really a fuzzy factor that picks the winners at random?

The level of difficulty in reaching success is in direct proportion to the level of clarity we have about our life goals and purposes.
Do you have to toil away at tasks you never enjoy in order to gain success? Most likely so if you are fuzzy about what your want in life.
Can success be acquired in a joyful and fulfilling way? Absolutely! If you have achieved clarity in your life direction and mission, and have placed them firmly at the center of your focus, your life will be characterized by daily experience of joy and fulfillment.

The biggest problem many people have with success is: The glamorous kind of success that gain the recognitions and envies of others may not align with your heart's deepest desire. If you can reconcile success with what your heart truly desire, you can really gain success easily. This is the missing link to finding success without struggle!
Most people see success as achievement of goals. The fact is, success should be experienced during the journey. Over more than two decades, I have been pursuing success in studies, sports, career, and even self-development goals. I was extremely goal-oriented, always perpetuate the timeless principle of one of the "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People": Begin With The End In Mind!

As I reflect on all these years of experience, I found myself looking at the glaring paradox of success: When I focused only on the goals, the joy and excitement of success is often short-lived. Success is usually achieved after a long period of struggles and sometime unpleasant hard work. The main reason being that I was pursuing success that does not align with my life purpose. I was drawn to prestige and glamor, more than inner joy and fulfillment. The simple lesson that took me years to realize is: Pursue only goals that you can enjoy the journey.
Most often it is how we define success that determines whether we are able to enjoy the journey as much as the end goal.

Take my favorite sport for example: marathon running. When I set my goal on running a marathon race, I give myself 6 to 9 months to train for the race. It is important to have a clear and specific goal on the marathon race. For me, I have a clear goal to complete the full course in three-and-a-half hours or better. I am setting this goal to push myself to instill better discipline in diet and exercise, as well as in my work. It is a challenging goal to me because the last marathon I run more than ten years ago was barely below four hours.
With this end goal, I work backward to find out the pace that I need to run during the race. I would then be able to know the gap between my current form and what I need to achieve in eight month's time. I work out a training plan to do weekly long run, speed work, and interval training. The training schedule will be in a progressive manner where I should achieve peak form when it reaches the day of race.


To cut the long story short, there are lots of details in preparing for a marathon race. However, the single most important thing I have to focus on is how I define success. It is a mindset business. While I have set a specific time goal to finish the race, it is not my definition of success. The success is not found in the distant future eight months from now. Success is defined by my daily commitment in working out the training program.
With this definition, I experience success everyday whenever I:
- Complete a 12-mile run.
- Work out an exhausting but satisfying speed training.
- Push myself to finish the punishing interval training even when my muscle is aching.
- Resist the temptation of tasty food to stick to the sports diet
- Defy the urge to run too hard so as to avoid over-training or injury.
- Diligently attend to blister and chafing so as to recover in time for next day's training without disruption.
- Remember to replenish my body fluid sufficiently to restore the required balance.
Even though I have to sweat, suffer muscle aching and even injuries, doing these is not a struggle to me. It is fun and exciting. It keeps me energized everyday.
I look forward to the training regime everyday, anticipating the excitement and fulfillment of finishing each exhausting training session, knowing that I have achieved success for that day.

The compounding effect of such success mindset is empowering. I know fully well that these small successes will add up to huge success in time to come. Even if I do not meet my time goal at end of this year, I know I have succeeded anyway as long as I follow the training regime diligently. I would already have experienced success on a daily basis for eight months even prior to the end goal. The final achievement of running time will be wonderful but it will not undermine my success. I am not comparing myself with others.
This same success principle can be applied universally in our life, in anything we do.
It is absolutely possible to achieve success without struggle if you can:
- Find your life purpose by seeking your inner wisdom;
- Set your goals base on your purpose, and be guided by what really excites and energizes you;
- Break the goal into small tasks you need to do on a daily basis;
- Stay focus in doing the small tasks well and enjoy the process;
- The key to enjoying the process is to be in the state of flow regularly by aligning your mind, body and soul.;
- This can be achieved by daily meditation exercise;
- Do not be concern about how you measure up with others;
- Have the faith and belief that success will eventually come, if you persevere and never give up.
Everyone can do it and everyone can achieve success in his own terms, without struggle!

About the Author:
Jordan Cheng is the author of the Success Journal
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