Add These 5 Habits for Lifelong Career Success

It’s never too late (or too early) in your career to instill good habits into your work routine, and there are some basic habits for success that apply to any job or work environment you might encounter in your career.

Here are five habits to will help you build a track record of success in your life and career.

Focused, hard work. If you don’t have a practice of working hard, you’ll have a difficult time finding career success. Hard work should be the cornerstone of your work habits and should, obviously, be a given. But you can also work hard on the wrong things and it’s important to develop the ability to focus on a single task rather than allowing the distraction of multitasking.

Continuous learning. Regardless of the position you’re in, there is always room to learn more and to expand your knowledge, deepen your skill set, and expand your tool kit of expertise. This requires an attitude of humility and a commitment to seek out opportunities to learn more about your job and industry.

Positive approach. Taking a positive approach to your life by developing a habit of positive thinking and seeking out the best in others and every situation will enable you to create more success in your life and career. Others will want to work with you, and you’ll instill a sense of trust in your relationships that will build an effective and lasting network.

Seek out mentors. Successful people realize that they can not do it alone and they seek out mentors and others who they can learn from and who can be a support system along the way. Strong and successful individuals have a strong system of support, starting with a mentor who has their best interests at heart and isn’t afraid to be honest.

Attention to purpose. Lifelong career success comes from developing a clear sense of your purpose and seeking out work opportunities that fulfill that purpose. Successful people are not driven by the accumulation of wealth but seek to serve others through their skills, interests, and knowledge, and want to make a difference in the world.

Work to cultivate these habits in your work and life and you’ll be closer to having the successful career you want.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 15 Ways to Improve Your Work Ethic

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below from Entrepreneur, Patrick Bet-David discusses 15 ways to improve your work ethic, starting with being predictable every day. Watch the video for the additional fourteen tips:

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 5 Steps to Live a Life You Love

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below from Brian Tracy, he shares five steps to living a life you love, starting with listening to your heart. Watch the video for the additional four steps:

10 Thoughts to Stay Motivated at Work

We all have those days when getting up for work is difficult. There are many reasons for this: lack of
sleep, too much fun the night before, procrastination on an important project, we're in the wrong job, etc.

So it can help to find some motivation and inspiration to get after it. Below are ten quotes to help inspire you to have a great day at work. Print them out and place them somewhere you can view them every morning.


1. "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." --Booker T. Washington

2. "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today." --Elbert Hubbard

3. "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt

4. "There is no substitute for hard work." --Thomas A. Edison

5. "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." --Rumi

6. "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness." --John Dewey

7. "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." --Pearl S. Buck

8. "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." --Henry Ford

9. "Work is love made visible." --Khalil Gibran

10. "Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work." --Horace

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Reasons You Need a Personal Website

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• 6 Reasons You Need a Personal Website: "Sixty-eight percent of the surveyed HR professionals want to learn more about you and are looking for personal qualities that aren't easily evident on a résumé. Furthermore, half the survey respondents believe a personal website helps to humanize a candidate."


• 10 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Stick To: "In the initial days of business, hard work will pay more than the smart work."


• 11 Truths About Being an Entrepreneur: "People want to work with people they like. The only way you’ll be able to move mountains is if you believe you can."


• How to Give Tough Feedback That Helps People Grow: "Giving developmental feedback that sparks growth is a critical challenge to master, because it can make the difference between an employee who contributes powerfully and positively to the organization and one who feels diminished by the organization and contributes far less."


• 3 Words That Make You Sound Rude in Email: "Because 'sorry' is so overused, it tends to feel flippant and non-genuine. “I apologize,” on the other hand, is said rarely enough that it still carries a lot of weight."