What Is the Value of Good Habits in a Person’s Career?
They create the ultimate value sought on the job market.
Are you kidding me? You seriously don’t know? It’s like asking a question “What is the value of oxygen in my lungs?”
Good habits are as valuable for your career as oxygen is valuable for your lungs. In other word: indispensable, necessary, must-have, life-saving.
First and foremost, good habits shape you into a good person. Don’t nitpick on this statement. Of course, I don’t mean this punctual-to-a-failure jerk who prides himself in living to his clock and who simultaneously is an arrogant prick. Or that gal who can solve any problem, but she is a real bitch for her team.
Apart from some exceptions, good habits make a good person. And ‘good’ means valuable in the marketplace. If you are disciplined, nice, respectful, knowledgeable, hardworking and a good team player, it’s most probably because you have relevant small habits which drive those behaviors.
And being such a person is a prerequisite in your career, not an afterthought, at least in the modern marketplace. Your skills matter less and less in the work market which changes so rapidly. Plenty of jobs that exist nowadays (social media manager) didn’t exist 30 or 10 years ago. Plenty of jobs that existed…
