Happy Weekend! I trust you’re good and the week has been a busy one. As we intentionally take a break at some point this weekend, I would like to share a few more insights from last week’s post on How to achieve consistent success as a professional.
Firstly, I would love to talk about Vision boards. You see, these motivate you because they allow you to express your dreams or goals in past tense as if they have already happened.
For greater efficiency, there must a timeline to each post on your vision board. For example, let’s say you see yourself completing that AI course by end of March, 2024, you should have a sticky note that says, I completed the AI course, March 29th, 2024.
You want to go a step further? Get a picture of the certificate that would be issued at the end of the course and edit it to show your name proudly sitting there in the awardee space.
One of my mentors, Terri Savelle Foy, will go even further to get pictures of other people who have achieved the dream she hopes to achieve someday, cut out their heads and place her’s there! Funny right? But that’s how she has consistently achieved success after success in her life for a long time now.
I’m sure you will agree with me that there’s a way that images propel you to become what they are depicting. A picture they say, is worth a thousand words. Pictures have a way of fuelling our imagination and this in turn fuels out passion and desires to see our dreams come to pass. Ultimately, you attract what you celebrate.
Secondly, I would like to speak to the need to have mentors. Mentors are simply people who have gone ahead of you and have achieved success in the field you just freshly ventured into. Let’s say, you recently made a career switch from banking to tech, you need a mentor who will walk you through by sharing their experience in their early days as a rookie and make sure you have a soft landing as you make progress in the IT space.
If you have challenges, he or she would give you the needed moral support that you need to face and surmount them. Who knows, they might even be willing to work with you on some of your projects if they have the time.
Choosing a mentor could be tricky. However, when it’s properly done, both mentee and mentor experience mutual benefits. The mentee goes out of their way to add value to the mentor and may plan for lunch with the mentor which usually gives opportunities for growth. Now these scenarios are usually possible when the mentor is directly mentoring you in person. Some people are mentored by authors of books that they have read and have a connection with. In this case, having lunch with one’s mentor may not be readily possible. However, you can get a picture of that mentor and place yours beside your mentor through simple cut and paste skills! Make it look as if you both are in the same picture at one of the networking events the mentor attends. I’m sure you know what to do with the picture- Yes place it on your vision board with a sticky note saying, in April, 2029, I was at a DevOps conference at the US with my mentor, Bill Gates. Talk about a marriage of vision boards and mentors!
Alright, this is all I have time for. I will share more insights in my next post. In the meantime, what were your takeaways from last week’s post or even from today’s post? Share them with me in the comments, let’s talk!
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