Ask yourself “When was the last time I invested in Myself?”
This Investment could be to:
- Enroll in a gym to get healthy,
- Start an ‘eat well’ plan,
- Learn to play the guitar/keyboard/something,
- Pick up a professional skill.
If the answer is “I DON’T REMEMBER” then today is the day to make this investment.
Let’s examine your professional life in this context. Considering that you are engineers or from similar professional education backgrounds.
Do you still remember:
- The nights spent studying for engineering entrance examinations while still trying to get good scores in the class XII exams?
- The tens of thousands of rupees and the umpteen hours spent in coaching institutes?
- The hours spent going through books that were way out of the syllabus of your Std. XII curriculum?
- The discussion with your friends around the strategy for each examination and the likely approach to get the best outcome. A lot of them probably did not succeed in the first attempt and spent yet another year trying to beat that system.
Life seems to make you comfortable to an extent that you forget that you had a goal for yourself and this comfort really is acting against getting you to that goal. Comfort is an enabling factor for inertia to set in, leading to no self-effort in making any kind of change to our lives.
If you don’t decide to get out of your comfort zones and embrace the future, the changes around you in business context over time will make you irrelevant. I cannot think of a better example than RIM (the makers of Blackberry) from the corporate world to underscore the point.
If you don’t decide to get out of your comfort zones and embrace the future, the changes around you in business context over time will make you irrelevant. I cannot think of a better example than RIM (the makers of Blackberry) from the corporate world to underscore the point.
Today is as good a day as any to get on that journey of the goal you set out for yourself.
If you always believed in making a larger impact in the world of business, your first step is to understand the fundamentals of business through a management program.
If you always believed in making a larger impact in the world of business, your first step is to understand the fundamentals of business through a management program.
Pick a program that :
- allows you to learn at your own pace,
- helps you learn in the context of the business you are in,
- allows you to apply your learning as you learn, and
- is aided by business leaders who act as coaches instead of professors, in a mode and at a cost that is palatable.
Wishing you and your loved ones Happy New Year 2014!
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