Essential Traits for a Successful Career

MASTERING THE ART OF SUCCESS

Shreya Roy
You and Us
3 min readJan 5, 2019

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Life is and never will be perfect. The only way is to snatch the smallest bits of happiness in whichever way we can. We cannot depend on people for being successful & happy in life. At the end of the day it is our efforts and actions that will take us places.

However, who doesn’t want to have a successful and settled career? We all do for certain. Here are some key skills we can keep in mind in order to have a successful career. Let’s discuss some of these essential traits.

Art of Balancing
Often we are unable to balance our professional life with our personal life. Due to this very reason, we are not able to give our fullest on either side, that leaves us disappointed and dissatisfied in life. Not saying it won’t take time. Of course initially it will be challenging. But as they say, ‘practice makes perfect’. The more we try to focus on this art, the easier it will be for us in the long run. Once this art has been excelled, we are one step closer to achieving success in our career.

Growth Mindset
Having a growth mindset means we are open to taking up new challenges as and when it comes. Moreover, it will give us the power to achieve anything in life, be it in our career or in our personal lives.

Being Passionate
Agreed, knowledge will lead us to success. But being knowledgeable about something we are truly passionate about will take us places in life. Yes, that’s right. Passion to work is one of the key traits to having a successful career. Therefore, we must try to enjoy our work and do our tasks with passion for a successful career.

Openness
Being curious individuals, we always want to know how things work and what more can we do to achieve greater things within our space of work. This curiosity in us is more likely to help us succeed much more than others around us.

Empathy
This is something a lot of companies lack. If we as employees can understand our clients and try to be in their shoes, not only will we get a better perspective of our clients in general but will also other interesting ideas for the success of the business in general.

Social Skills
Talking and networking is the unique new. Well guess what? It also falls under one of the straits to having a successful career! If we can network well, bring people together while remaining focused, it would mean that we are emotionally capable in any situation.

Now that we know the key skills to having a successful career, let’s start applying them right away to achieve best results!

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