ExodusMagSep2017

CAREER FOCUS
Sixth, celebrate your own successes. Many people struggle
when people do not celebrate them. At times it’s not that
others must, but yourself. You need to celebrate your own
victories. Maybe other people are busy with their own. You
must come to your own party. You cannot expect people to
celebrate you more than you celebrate yourself. It pays to
beat your own drum at times. It is called selfencouragement.
You need that especially in this discouraging
world that is more fault-finding than success-celebrating.
Seventh, start new projects - don’t celebrate the past for too
long. People who keep talking about what happened yesterday
have nothing to do today. A career is a lifetime. It’s either
you are learning, leveraging or leading others. When you
have achieved certain results it is worthwhile to mentor others
to do the same as a career project. That is leadership typified
in the way traditional Africans learnt. They learnt from experts
in their communities. If an African was to learn a trade, they
were sent to live with an expert in their trade until the life of
such guru is transferred into the protégé. Mentors are required
on African soil to get many talents resuscitated from
self-destruction. Many young people given to drugs and selfdestructive
habits need talented people to rise to the occasion
and use their fame and power to help them make something
out of themselves.
Until next time build your strengths and build on them – see
you at the top.
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