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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared tips on how to sell yourself in less than a minute. Today, I will be highlighting 5 ways to become more productive in your career.

Have you ever driven a car with a faulty dashboard before? Well, I have. I didn’t pay attention to the fact that my fuel gauge was faulty for some days, as I normally would buy enough to take me a couple of weeks. The car suddenly went off and I wondered what the problem was. Alas, a mechanic diagnosed that I had run out of gas. I couldn’t believe what I just heard. The fuel gauge was the issue and I didn’t realize I needed to recalibrate.

This is the situation for many career professionals who are operating on reserve or an empty gas, or who just need to recalibrate to keep moving. Being caught up in plenty of activity doesn’t necessarily guarantee productivity. The car kept moving but the moment I ran out of gas, I couldn’t be productive anymore despite being actively involved. When you mentally, physically, or emotionally shut down, activities may be registered, but productivity is no longer guaranteed. You could be going to work, resuming at your duty post, carrying out your job descriptions but yet maybe highly unproductive.

This is why it’s very necessary as career professionals to frequently and occasionally evaluate and recalibrate our job engagement and job performance levels in order to stay in touch with the game. Here are 5 ways to evaluate and recalibrate career performance and optimization.

Firstly, you must demonstrate a professional attitude at all times. I know you may be unhappy with your job, your boss, your current pay, or with some project tasks at hand, however, this is not about how you feel, but what has to be done. Ensure to set aside your sentiments and express professionalism as much as possible. Understand that whatever you do, you do it for yourself. When you compromise on your standards because of negative energy, there is only one loser at the end of the day, and that is you, my friend.

This leads me to my second point. And this is the need to take your work, job, or profession seriously. Be prompt to work and scheduled meetings, be attentive and observant to things going on around you, and ensure to give your best at all times when called upon. And just because you have decided to move on from an organization, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give your best till the last day and minute you are still bound by a contract.

The third way to become more productive is to embrace feedback. This is the best form of evaluation that helps you recalibrate for career success. Unfortunately, many career professionals detach from feedback. They don’t want to be criticized or appraised, and I wonder how they want to grow? Growth is benchmarked on feedback. You can only improve, adjust, or develop based on your previous evaluated state. So embrace feedback, and go the extra mile to ask for one if it’s not given, and beyond that, ensure to respond to feedback.

The fourth way will be to constantly build capacity, by committing to personal development. You owe yourself the duty and responsibility to learn new things. There is always a room that is never filled up, and that’s the room for improvement. Stretch yourself in your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and make decisions strategically. This way, you can become reliable because you are able to do what you say you would do, and when you say you would do it.

The final way to become more productive in your career, is to stay as fit mentally, physically, and emotionally for your work, job, or profession, depending on what the demands are. Look after your health and wellbeing as much as possible, because a healthy employee is a potentially productive employee who is useful to the growth of the organization they work for. Eat well, rest well, and stay as healthy and fit as you possibly can. Stay as hydrated as possible as this helps the brain to function more effectively.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate my next nugget. Purchase my new book, “Get Clear On You Career Path…know what you are best built and designed to do” and You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared tips on how potential employers can take you more seriously. Today, I will be highlighting how to create an amazing elevator speech that will make heads turn and elicit the right conversations, and engagement that you have always desired.

I learned about the elevator speech a while back, and it serves as my personal sales pitch anywhere I go. I remember vividly, going to an event some years back and we had to introduce ourselves and what we do at some point. I couldn’t wait for my turn as I generally looked forward to the opportunity to sell myself and make people know what I do. Before I had my opportunity, many before me had made generic introductions about themselves, things like, ‘My name is Ade and I work as a banker with ABC organization’, ‘my name is Chioma, and I am a front desk officer with XYZ organization’, or ‘my name is Danjuma, and I am a salesperson with XYZ organization. When it got to my turn, I rose with my head up, shoulders high, and brewed with so much confidence as I introduced myself.

I said to them, my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse, I take people home in style and make traffic feel like home for those stuck in Lagos traffic between 4 pm and 9 pm. Just like I expected, heads turned, attention was garnered, and I attracted eyes as people became inquisitive to know what exactly I do and how I claimed I did what I said I did. This wasn’t a perfectly drafted elevator speech, however, it did enough to gain attention and to make me attractive.

As career professionals, you must understand the fact that whenever you introduce yourself, people generally think of you and analyse you in their minds, in the least possible and demeaning form. When you make your introduction closed-ended, people draw up their most conclusive forms of what they think you are or can ever be. So, what more can anybody think of you or what really makes you different when you say you are an accountant, teacher, marketer, or any other profession you introduce yourself to be?

You must recognize that you are more than your occupation or your position my friend. You are more about the solutions you provide and the unique selling propositions that set you apart from others. There is really nothing special about your position or your occupation, hence introducing yourself by these parameters does not elicit conversations in any way to make people want to know more about you.

In Dan miller’s book, 48days to the work you love, he encouraged career professionals to have an “elevator speech”. His rationale about this is that in the 48 seconds it takes an elevator to go from one floor to the next, you should be able to clearly describe what is unique about you and what best describes what you do. Ask yourself, what solution do I genuinely bring to my organization or works space? What help do I render, How do I do it differently, and what do I help my organization achieve?

So rather than say your name is Danjuma, and I am a sales officer with XYZ company, what about saying ‘my name is Danjuma, they call me the ruthless executor, because I have helped XYZ organization meet and exceed their sales targets of 200 million Naira over the last 2yrs, through personally defined steps that guarantee me results, week in week out. Tell me, my friend, if people wouldn’t wait to exchange contacts with you and learn more about how you make it happen. A potential employer could be thinking about poaching you immediately with a bigger offer, and why not?

Your elevator speech is your one-time opportunity to create a positive first impression that you might not have another opportunity to create. Get used to saying it to yourself so often so that you can become familiar with it and confident about it. It should be a statement that best describes, and reflect who you are and what you can offer, so you always look forward to delivering it with enthusiasm and conviction, no matter the situation you find yourself in.

So may I re-introduce myself to you fam? My name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse, They call me the purpose doctor because I have helped hundreds of savvy young professionals identify what they should be doing with their lives and to become the best versions of themselves through purpose discovery and career clarity. Now, It’s time to work on your elevator speech so you can begin to attract and gain the attention you have always desired.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate my next nugget. Purchase my new book, “Get Clear On You Career Path…know what you are best built and designed to do” and You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared tips on how to build great career networks. Today, I will be showing elements that make potential employers take you seriously.

As a young lad in the university back in the days, there were elements ladies looked out for before considering you a potential suitor. Beyond arguably the most common element being a car that could woo a campus girl, there were more subtle elements they paid critical attention to and believed revealed how settled or comfortable you are. In no particular order, they noticed your fragrance and how well you smell, the next would be your footwear, and the third would be your wristwatch. The general impression about this is that you could cook up looking good, but you ideally go out of your way to invest in those key elements I just mentioned.

This is very similar for career professionals as well. There are general things we can cook up so well, like our resumes, CVs, application letters, degrees, etc but there are more critical elements that will give out the real essence of who you are, what you can bring to the table, and how you could be a great addition to their organization. These elements my friend are what potential employers hardly resist and have no choice but to take you more seriously.

There are many career professionals who often fall into the underqualified and overqualified job hunt brackets. You must understand that the job and employment market is gradually evolving past the regulars of your degrees, school of study, resumes, application letters, and all. They are all great add-ons no doubt, however, you might need to shift your focus into more sellable avenues that position way better. I often tell people that I may respect what you know but I am more impressed about what you can do because reputation is built on accomplishments and not on mere desires.

The first element will be to create a great social profile of yourself. Be mindful about your social media presence and what impressions and ideas can be communicated through them. Your choice of profile avatars, your bio, and your social media engagements all matter. If you must have a faceless account to indulge your excesses, then go ahead my friend. However, you can’t afford to jeopardize potential opportunities. Constantly post relevant contents that sell you as a brand based on the solutions you provide or can provide. More importantly and above all social media platforms, you must have a well-built and optimized LinkedIn page. Seek the help of a professional to help build one, and maximize the potentials that abound with having one.

Another element that will go a long way to position you so well, is the need to be actively registered and engaged with at least two associations and networks. These could be physical or virtual networks, but they must be groups that match and promote your core career interests. Many people are not in any, and for some who are, they are more like benchwarmers who offer no input. You will be doing to yourself a great disservice and injustice to your potential career opportunities. Constantly ask intelligent questions, and offer bright ideas, as these will help make you noticeable and recommendable. Have it at the back of your mind that someone is paying attention even if they aren’t saying anything yet. For many, they want to test if you are some flash in the pan or a true definition of the kind of person that you are.

Finally, a very important element that set you apart is what Dan Miller cited in his book, “48 days to the work you love”. It’s called the “elevator speech”. An elevator speech is a summary of “what” you are and not “who” you are, but more from the functionality point of view and not just from the position point of view. It’s a speech that focuses on your unique value proposition or selling point as a career professional. For example, when career professionals are asked to introduce themselves, they would commonly say I am an accountant, banker, teacher, etc. However, there are many accountants, bankers, and teachers out there! So. What makes you different?

This is why you can’t afford to miss the next nugget where I will be sharing tips on how to create an amazing elevator speech that will make heads turn and elicit the right conversation and engagement.

You must take these elements seriously if you also want potential job suitors and employers to take you seriously as well. You must improve on things that will make you a more viable candidate in today’s workplace.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate my next nugget. Purchase my new book, “Get Clear On You Career Path…know what you are best built and designed to do” and You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared how your career success is a reflection of the quality of your network. Today, I will be showing you how to build great networks for a successful career.

I remember one of the fun things I loved to do as a child was planting. It all began from one of the various experiments given to me by my Agric teacher to plant seeds and watch them grow. I took a drive past one of the buildings we once lived in as a child, and to my amazement, one of my fun experiments as a child still stood tall, it was a mango tree that began as a fun seed, planted into the ground by a fun playing child, who was a fund of planting over 15 years ago. I couldn’t help but park my car to roll back the years. The moral of my story is to make us understand one thing, and that’s the fact that building a great network in life is like nurturing a seed till it grows into a plant or a tree.

As career professionals, building a successful career starts from building great networks. You must identify and recognize the potential seeds, the ground, and the season for planting. I shared how to evaluate your potential networks in the last nugget, which is similar to identifying the seeds. The next will be to identify the grounds or places to have these seeds nurtured and the right time or seasons to plant and nurture these networks. Who do I need to connect with, what kind of seeds are they, where can I find them, and at what seasons of my life do I need them? There are some networks needed for specific seasons, and there are some required all around.

Building a great network is just like planting a tree, it will require time, attention, energy, resources, and more. However, the beauty of it is that the time of harvest and when the tree begins to bear good fruits far outweigh the sacrifices made. Many times we only see, appreciate, and covet the harvest or the fruit-producing times of great relationships, but we never want to do the real work of proper nurturing.

As career professionals, we build relationships in for main cardinal ways for impact and success. We build upwards, downwards, and sideways. Upward nurturing will refer to how well we nurture and manage those above us. These are people we hold in high esteem and desire to model our lives and career successes after or are very influential to our career success. Like your bosses, senior staff, line manager, mentors, coaches, etc. These types challenge us to become better. If you have nobody you are looking up to or who inspires you, then you will remain where you are for a long time. You become a one-eyed king in the land of the blind. You require relationships that have the potential to pull you upwards and push you up your career ladder quicker.

On the other hand, we also need to build relationships downwards and give back. It’s possible to get carried away by our need to thrive and then neglect those we also look up to us and need our help. There is someone you are better than at every point in your life, and your greatest form of success is one that incorporates legacy building and investments in people. Success is in continuum and should never start or end with you. This kind of relationship, help us remain in tune with reality and keep us humble. They reinforce our position as great career-leading professionals. Constantly ask yourself, if you are feeding off someone, who is feeding off you?

Beyond building and nurturing relationships upwards and downwards, managing relationships sideways refers to building networks with your pairs or professionals that are at your level of influence and impact. These include possibly your colleagues, associates, partners, friends, etc. These types are the ones who carry you along. When you isolate yourself from these types, you become totally lost and spend valuable time meant for other things to catch up with things you keep missing out on. This type of relationship also creates healthy competition for growth and development. Like the saying, iron sharpens iron.

Experts agree that the most connected people are often the most successful ones. Investing in professional and personal relationships can be highly rewarding to your career. Building a great career network it will help you develop and improve your skill set, stay in tune with trends in your industry, keep a tab of the job market, meet prospective mentors, partners, and clients, and gain access to the necessary resources that will foster your career development.

Building a great career network will:

·         Give you the right attention and make you noticeable

·         Give you an avenue to explore newer opportunities

·         Keep you on your toes and improves your creative intellect

·         Serve as an extra resource library for your wealth of knowledge, growth, and development.

·         Help you gain support from high profiles individuals

·         Help you grow in self-confidence as well

One thing I must let you know my friend is that Networking isn’t cheap. If you choose not to nurture it, it will cost you more. If you choose to nurture it right, it will make you priceless and highly valuable. It’s a gradual process and it won’t happen overnight, however, the earlier you begin, the better and faster your career and net-worth can begin to grow.

Are you wondering where to start from and how if it’s still worth it? Well according to a Chinese proverb, if the best time to have planted a tree was 20yrs ago, then the next best time is now!

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget where I will be sharing hacks on 3 things you must have for potential employers to take you seriously. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Your Career Success Is A Reflection Of Your Network

Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared how to deal with limiting beliefs in your career. Today, I will be showing you how your net worth is a reflection of your network and how to evaluate your network.

World-renowned motivational speaker Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, had a simple, yet powerful mission: To help people improve their lives through reading. And in his words, he said ‘You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.’ Honestly, this statement has to be nothing else but personal development 101.

Absolutely profound. In other words, the reason you are still where you are today is easy to know, the kind of books you have buried yourself in or not touched, and the kinds of associations you still keep. This is a very critical aspect of your career development my friend. If you don’t like what your career reflects at the moment, do two things for starters, change your associations and be more intentional about the information you ingest.

I am sure you have heard about one of the philosophies of success that states that, if you are broke and you find yourself moving consistently with 9 wealthy people, it’s just a matter of time for you to become the 10th wealthy person. And I dare say that the reverse is the case as well. If you are the only wealthy person in a community, then you are actually a poor man and a local champion. Bring these scenarios or philosophies into your career space, my friend. Your association is absolutely important to how much you want to succeed career-wise.

Career networking involves using personal, professional, or educational contacts to assist you with job positioning, job leverage, knowledge expansion, and optimizing your career goals. Very important questions you want to ask yourself is…

·         WHO do you spend time with?

·         WHERE do you spend time often?

·         HOW do you spend your time?

The quality of your associations will determine the quality of impact, influence, and income you begin to generate as a career professional. Evaluate who you spend most of your time with. I learned from a friend that if you are having a conversation with someone for about 10mins, and realize they have wasted your time, the first two minutes are their fault, but the last 8mins is your fault. To those who like their “me-time”, it’s not a bad thing, however, there is a limit to the “me-time” you should be having because even though every man is like a tree, no man is an island. This is an aspect I have suffered from for many years. I advise you to make quick adjustments and step out as often as necessary.

The next thing is to evaluate where you spend most of your time. Are you at the right place at the right time? DO you know the quality of associations you keep also determine to some extent if you will be at the right place at the right time or not? You can get a well-paid job or lose a great job as a result of positioning. You can take advantage of a great opportunity or become a victim of circumstance as a result of your career positioning.

Another question to ask is how you spend your time. Successful career professionals aren’t necessarily the very hardworking type, even though it’s good, but the smart working type. SO work hard, but work smarter my friend. How have you scheduled your work routine and to-dos? How have you effectively or efficiently maximized your most productive work hours?

Networking is so important because as your career develops, and you become more successful, the actions that you take, start to affect more and more people. You might say you really don’t care who your success will affect, you must keep in mind that your gifts and talents can take you to the top, however, not everyone sustains themselves at the top. The population of successful people reduces as you climb to the top because not everyone knows how to manage to be at the top. Trying to climb to the top or sustaining yourself at the top of your career, requires evaluating people who hold the keys to significance, influence, or interests that translate into your career success or failures.

You can call these types of people STAKEHOLDERS, and it’s your responsibility and in your good interest to IDENTIFY, PRIORITIZE, & UNDERSTAND how to deal with these stakeholders who can be your boss, colleagues, family members, partners, mentors, mentees, etc.)

Your career network should be evaluated to identify who matters most and who matters less as you climb your career ladder. This evaluation is done by identifying those who are influential or interested in you. For example, those who aren’t so influential or show plenty of interest in you, just monitor these kinds of people minimally. If they are not so influential but very interested in your affairs, keep these kinds of people in the know of things happening with you. If they are highly influential but still minimally interested in your affairs, Just always ensure you have them satisfied because people’s level of influence in your life and career can change in a split second.

However, the kinds of people that you break your sweat for and sacrifice so much for, are those who are highly influential and highly interested in your affairs. You manage them closely, and engage them fully, by making a great effort to satisfy them.

So take time out to list your circle of influence and network and do yourself the favor to evaluate where they belong so you can begin to pay extra attention where necessary. How much influence or power do they hold to your career success or failure, and how interested are you in being successful or not.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget where I will be talking about building great career networks. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to help them operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared how your career success starts with your mind. Today, I will be sharing how to deal with limiting beliefs in your career.

Henry Ford once said that “whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right”. It all depends on what you choose to believe. Belief is a fundamental part of your success or your failure. A classic story to best understand this is the interesting story of some elephants found at a circus ground when a man took a walk around. He noticed some elephants who weighed between 5000pounds to 14,000 pounds were not caged but had tiny chains around their feet. The man then asked the trainer why the elephants didn’t break free.

He revealed a very interesting fact, that the same size of chains was used to tie the elephant when they were much smaller. They definitely tried to break free at that young age but they couldn’t and realized they were helpless because the chains were at that time strong enough to restrict them. So they are eventually conditioned to break free from the chains, and even though they are much stronger and bigger now, they still feel they can be restricted by those tiny chains and wonder if it’s really worth fighting it. The moral of this story is that the elephants had experienced what we call “learned helplessness”, a state of the mind where we are conditioned to accept limitations are real and can’t be broken simply because they have become a part of our lives.

I know this sounds familiar to you, right? Yes, just like those elephants, there are many of such strong mindsets and beliefs that have limited us for many years and subconsciously serve as barriers to our career success. The sad truth about limiting beliefs is that even when a way of escape or solution presents itself, our minds have become too conditioned that we become blind to the opportunity or we resist it in self-defense and develop a coping strategy to adapt to it.

This is how we gradually develop fixed mindsets about our career and life, rather than being open to having a growth mindset that accepts we are bound and allowed to make mistakes and learn from them no matter how long it takes. Many career professionals go through life feeling they can’t go beyond a level just because they have made an error in that area before. Forgive yourself, be easy on yourself and cut yourself some slack, my friend.

You feel you aren’t good or smart enough be3cause you failed many exams in the past, you feel you don’t deserve some pay because you have never earned, seen, or experienced it before, you feel you aren’t worth it simply because you finished from a certain caliber of the institution, you feel your gender, age, background, the degree to some extent, should dictate or define your outcome in life. Why don’t you try to flip the coin the other way fam! Aren’t there people who were born into rich homes, had amazing backgrounds, attended great institutions, or finished with the best of grades still end up nowhere? That tells you one thing my friend, that life happens to everyone, but life bends and gives way to people who take charge and do not sulk about it. One example of a fixed and limited mindset is that when life throws a curveball, they say “why me?” rather than “why not me?”.

Here are 5 amazing tips I would like to share with you if you desire to experience a rewarding and successful career.

1.    Appreciate your awesomeness, my friend. Learn the art of praising yourself rather than belittling yourself. Tell yourself often how good-looking, brilliant, smart, productive, blessed, amiable, favored, and privileged you are. The more you say it the more your mind begins to condition itself to believe it over time. Internal validation always supersedes external validations.

2.    Transform your mind by renewing what you permit into it. Create affirmations by flipping your fears and constantly saying them to yourself, till you have internalized them well enough to begin to believe it. For example, if your limiting belief is that you fail exams too many times too often, flip that fear and tell yourself that you write exams and pass them. If your limiting beliefs are the fact that you have never been promoted on a job and you have believed over time that you can never be, flip those fears into words of affirmation and say to yourself that people like you get and deserve promotions. You can even record your affirmations and use them as your ringtones.

3.    Stretch and challenge your mind and expose it to your fears. For example, if you have never seen yourself work for an organization because you feel only some kind of special breeds are recruited there, pay them a deliberate and intentional visit. That visit can do a thing or two to break the limiting belief.

4.    Practice the art of meditating on the career you have always desired. Meditate often on the images, places, people, or things that represent or best describes them till you internalize them well enough to begin to attract them. Internalize it so much that you begin to sound, look, and act like your desired career.

5.    Finally my friend, guard your minds and think only on things that are true, pure, noble, and of good report. Meaning, whenever anything contradictory to the career of your dreams arises or reminds or suggestively empowers your limiting beliefs, don’t give that thought an ounce of a second before you dispel it and replace them with positivity.

With these, I believe you are closer than you can imagine to destroying or disempowering those limiting beliefs that have held you back from your desired career success. You can be anything you want my friend, it’s all in the mind.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget where I will be talking about your network and your net worth. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared on the importance of resuming at your right duty post. Today, I will be sharing how your career success starts with your mind.

Computer science was one of my favorite electives ever taken back in the higher institution, and one of my most loved topics was programming. I enjoyed the part that had to do with writing programming instructions and watching them play out. It’s what most academic institutions teach in coding and robotics these days. It was as simple as writing an algorithm of instructions that a program had to follow for execution and success. The success of the program was dependent on the data that was imputed, and this tells me one thing my friend, that the success of our lives is a reflection of what we permit, and that we get out what we put in.

We often get the order wrong and always feel that there is something we need to do on the outside to get the results we truly desire. We try to acquire more and more certifications, work with some prestigious organization, or earn a certain amount of pay to cover up our inadequacies sometimes. The gospel is, success begins from inside out and not from outside in. This is why you can put a man with an average mentality at the helms of affairs of a great company and he will run the company to the level and capacity of his mind, and on the other hand, you can taka man with an excellent and achievers mentality and place him in charge of a company on the verge of collapse, and he will turn it into a success in a matter time.

The real challenge most times isn’t with external acquisition but with the internal reprogramming of our minds my friend. There are some patterns, systems, and beliefs that we have immortalized as a result of our backgrounds, experiences, exposures, or actions that need to be altered and reconfigured before we can begin to experience the career success we have truly desired. For example it’s possible for your mind to never conceive a level of success simply because of your belief about a certain status of academic institution you attended, or a pattern of failure that has become a norm for you, or an amount of money that you cannot see beyond.

There has to be a reconfiguration of your mind which we call a MINDSET shift, which impacts on your ATTITUDE, which further reflects in your BEHAVIOUR, which leads to certain habitual ACTIONS that produces certain kinds of RESULTS and PERFORMANCES. This means that if you aren’t a fan of your level of performances, then you need to work first on your MIND, which will influence your ATTITUDE to work and become evident in your BEHAVIOUR and characteristics, and ultimately changes the way you do things and guarantees great results and performances.

It’s important to do an audit of your mental state and the condition of your mind. Ask yourself if you have a GROWTH mindset or a FIXED mindset my friend. For example we can have two employees and employee “A” take failure as a limitation of abilities, while employee “B” takes failure as an opportunity to grow. One can say to himself, “I am either good at it or not” while the other says that “I can learn to do anything I want” or one employee decides to stick to what he knows and another always likes to try new things. We can see here that it’s obvious that one employee has a GROWTH mindset and the other has a FIXED mindset.

How do you know if you are fixed minded or growth minded? Ask yourself a few questions.

·         Pay attention to your words and what you are saying. The first step in becoming aware of how you think is by keeping tab of what you say. Check your language daily and especially when you are faced with difficult situations.

·         Check your associations. Who do you constantly surround yourself with? Have you limited yourself by the associations you keep?

·         Check your ambitious status. How much do you dare to dream? Do you see opportunities more than you see limitations?

·         How grateful are you? Growth minded people practice the gratitude walk of always seeing the positives in every situation. They always identify at least one thing to always be grateful for.

You see, the mind can never function beyond the capacity it has been built to operate. Many people desire a gigabyte size of career success and want to fit it into a megabyte sized mind. It can’t work! You can only BECOME what you BELIEVE. Some employees cannot imagine certain levels of career success and achievements, because of what their minds have settled for unconsciously.

If you truly want to succeed in your career, it can only happen from within, and this means you must stretch, reconfigure, and reprogram your mind my friend. You must deal with LIMITING BELIEFS. The truth is, only you know what those limiting beliefs are, and only you can talk yourself out of it. The next nugget will center on how to address career limiting beliefs so you can begin to live a more fulfilling and rewarding career

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared hacks on the importance of developing a career blueprint for success. Today, I will be asking you just one question my friend, are you at your duty post?

I remember employing a security man some years back who hardly stayed at his duty post. He would often make an excuse or two about his absence from his duty post. What made it annoying wasn’t just his absence but the fact that he hardly notified anyone about his whereabouts. We often felt gutted about the fact that he was paid for a job to open the gates when required and man the gates as expected but was just not hardly around. We eventually had to relieve him of his duties and replaced him in no time. If I were to ask you if our actions to let him go were well justified, I am sure you would agree with it and the fact that he has been ineffective and inefficient. However, can I toss the same question back to you in retrospect? So, are you at your duty post too my friend?

By this, I mean are you functioning where you are naturally built and designed to function and perform? Or are you just simply passing time and going with the flow, and however the wind leads?

Permit me to take you back to the genesis of having a job, work, or a profession. The first man Adam was created and you would have thought all he had to do was just sit and gist with his maker or while away time. But guess what, right after creation, God gave him work to do. Do you know why? You were made for a purpose and every purpose has an assignment attached to it, and the fabric of that assignment is laced with work. No wonder even your idle mind is a workshop and playground for the devil.

So, the moment Adam was created, God coming down to gist with him in the cool of the day, was God saying to him, “you know what? there is time for everything and the work I have placed in your hands is equally as important to me as it is to you”. In order words my friend, God is interested in the work, job, profession, and career. He doesn’t expect you to play with work time.

I know you would say to me, Wyse I do my job, I keep to my job description. But can I burst your bubble a little? Activity isn’t validation for productivity. Being busy isn’t equal to being effective or efficient. So, when God came down in the cool of the day to talk with Adam, he knew he expected him to be at his duty post, and functioning effectively and efficiently as expected.

We are expected to function on not just any job, career, or profession, but the one we are originally built and designed for. And just the way I got upset with the security man who was hardly at his duty post, is similar to you operating in a job that isn’t your business. This is why at the end of time, what will be tested is not just the works of your hands but your GOOD WORKS!

This means that good work is only certified when you have resumed at the right duty post my friend. Just imagine you swapping jobs with his friend, and you resumed at their office while they resumed at yours. You both won’t be paid even if you carried out the functions effectively. As silly as that scenario is, it’s such a big deal to function where you should and not where you think you should. There is a thin line between what is right and what is expected. Doing what is right isn’t enough, but doing what is expected is what gets you a good appraisal.

You aren’t here to while away time, but to identify what the ideal career path you are best designed and built to function is, and resume at your duty post. Remember the men in the great books who said master I did this and I did that but yet they were rebuked? That’s because the right judge of what’s good or bad isn’t an activity, but meeting expectations. Your boss doesn’t care if you did a few right things, he is only concerned if, in the end, you have met predefined goals and objectives my friend. So, more importantly, are you at your duty post today? Not just the job you are doing but the job you should be doing.

All I am saying is, should you be in the health sector but you are currently in finance? Should you be in education but you have been stuck in entertainment, or should you be in entertainment and you are just passing time in finance? Don’t wait till you are long gone and frustrated to validate your career path, job, or profession. Get to work on the right job, resuming at the right duty post as soon as possible.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget where I will share thoughts on your first step to career success. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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Hi! I am The Purpose Doctor, and my name is Ayobami Olugbenga-Wyse. I am a purpose-driven peak performance and career clarity coach. I help people map out their career paths with ease and to operate in the ideal career they are best built and designed for. Thanks for subscribing to my “Wyse Career Nuggets”, it’s my way to help you create a productive and highly rewarding career.

In the last career nugget, I shared hacks on how to validate your career goals. Today, I will be talking about the importance of designing a personal career blueprint for your career success.

I remember embarking on a trip to an unfamiliar destination a while back, and that entire trip was saddled with uncertainties, a waste of time, money, and resources, simply because I was navigating through unforeseen territories. I didn’t drive with enough conviction. I was wary of making many wrong turns and overly cautious and conscious of getting lost. I took for granted the ease of how using a map or asking a passerby for direction could have saved me all the pain and discomfort. But the moment I did, everything changed. It was like a cheat code the moment the map indicated how much time it would take me, how far or near I was to my destination, and the necessary landmarks to put me in check. I drove with better conviction, purpose, and clarity.

Many young professionals embark on their career journeys the same way. They assume everything and would always prefer to get to the bridge before thinking of how to cross it. They take every day as it comes and cannot measure how far or close, they are to their desired career goals, or if they have established goals in the first place. Their career path is weighed on random events and activities rather than it being premised on well-defined outcomes and deliberate actions. Career professionals like this are often tossed back and forth and move with the wind wherever it leads. And even for those who have defined goals but no designed blueprint and action plan, they simply wait for goals to achieve themselves rather than create a system, a stake, or a reward to help set the ball in motion.

As career professionals, you can’t dwell on the belief that when things are hard to achieve, then it was never meant to be but when it comes easy then it was meant to be. That’s such a lazy approach to life and a way to settle for less of who or what you can become. The truth is, if you choose to have an ordinary unambitious career then it’s okay and not a big deal, however, if your desire is to have a highly rewarding and productive career then you must be prepared to be held accountable and set achievable and realistic career targets and get to work.

One thing is common to successful career professionals, they have a blueprint of action. What I call a career GPS or career map! This is a clear path of action and a clear sense of direction that defines what your first and next career steps of action are and you work towards it. Like Brian Tracy once said, you must identify what your next ONE, most important step should be and work towards it. Not just any step of action, but the next one, most important step is my friend, and this is what a Career Blueprint helps you achieve.

Your career blueprint contains elements of People, Places, Things, and Time. This means that you must identify and establish What next you want, How you want it, Where you want it, When you want it, and Who can help you achieve it. This you will evaluate every step and inch of the way and you move closer to your desired destination.

And if you feel having a career execution plan or blueprint isn’t so important, then let me share 5 risks you will be exposed to…

·         You will have no clear career sense of direction and will most often be lost in your career world.

·         You are exposed to missed career opportunities and won’t be able to recognize one when you see it or even know which opportunities to seize when they present themselves.

·         You will leave many stones unturned with the hope of achieving them someday but will never be.

·         You will waste resources in time, money, energy, and people because you will most often major on the minor and minor on the major.

·         You won’t be able to evaluate how far and how well you have come in your career journey my friend, and will most often accept anything as being okay!

So, you see my friend, having a well-designed career blueprint of action is non-negotiable.

·         You become more in control of your career and your objectives will become well spelled out to achieve your overall career goals.

·         You will better utilize, allocate, and manage your resources

·         Decision-making becomes easier and you will experience better career fluidity with limited friction.

·         You will have a more realistic timeframe for execution, and be clear on your action steps.

I hope this has been very helpful. Share this with a friend, family, or colleague who might need this, and anticipate the next nugget where I will share thoughts on how important your job is and the importance of being in the right job. You can also book a FREE 30mins career clarity and coaching call at www.ayobamiwyse.com and feel free to follow me on my social media handles @ayobamiwyse to learn more.

Remember, all we do is win, and it always pays to be wyse.

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