1. Use these nine strategies to help achieve your full career potential. They will profoundly affect your career success at every step.

2.  Create and sustain your inner drive.  Increase your confidence.  Provide mental and physical energy.  Guide you toward goals.  Help you project competence, enthusiasm, and presence.  Improve performance.

3. 1. Positive Thinking and Behavior Making a conscious effort to think with an optimistic attitude and to anticipate positive outcomes. Purposely acting with energy and enthusiasm. Guide your mind toward your goals and generate matching mental and physical energy. Causes the brain to generate matching positive chemical and physical responses, such as increased mental alertness and physical energy, improved respiration and circulation, and increased beneficial endorphins. Thinking positively actually boosts your ability to perform and to project enthusiasm, energy, competence, and confidence—the qualities interviewers look for when they hire and promote candidates.

4. 1. Positive Thinking and Behavior Follow these steps to form the habit of positive thinking and boost your success: 1.Deliberately motivate yourself every day: think of yourself as successful. 2. Project energy and enthusiasm. 3. Practice this positive expectation mind-set until it becomes habit. 4.Dwell on past successes! Remind yourself of your abilities in attaining goals.

5. 2. Visualization Purposely forming a mental picture of your successful performance and recalling the image frequently. Improves performance because the positive picture triggers your subconscious to generate matching positive physiological responses that increase performance. Serves as a form of mental practice or rehearsal that strengthens performance.

6. 2. Visualization Techniques Relax Mentally draw a picture or create a mental video Make the picture detailed and visualize success! Incorporate pictures, words, actions, and senses Dwell on the image; be able to recall it instantly

7. 3. Positive Self-Talk Purposely giving yourself positive reinforcement, motivation, and recognition. Congratulate yourself when you do well. =) Remind yourself of your abilities, accomplishments, strengths, and skills. What you habitually say to yourself has a profound impact on your self-image, your self-esteem, and your performance and success! Eliminate any negative self-talk: Negative Positive I’ll try I will I should do I will do I have to I want to/I choose to

8. 4. Affirmation Statements Positive self-statements or reminders to help achieve goals. Positive messages with a punch, “mental bumper stickers” to motivate your subconscious to work for you. How to create affirmation statements: Make the statements personal: use I, your name, or you. Keep statements short. Phrase them positively: The mind accepts as truth the words you give it. Only use positive words; leave out negative words. Negative: “I will not be nervous during my interview.” Positive: “I will be calm and self-assured during my interview.” Include a positive emotion: “My goal is valuable and it excites me.” Phrase affirmations as fact: “I AM strengthening my speaking abilities.” Say your affirmations at least once a day: Repetition enhances self- confidence, acts as a reminder, and stimulates your subconscious to help you achieve your goal.

9. 1.Define your goals clearly in writing. 2.Identify and focus on the benefits of achieving your goals. 3.Define the purpose of your goals. 4.Identify supportive forces for you. 5.Develop an action plan, set deadlines, and act. 6.Establish priorities. 7.Make a public commitment. 8.Be realistic about limitations. 9.Use positive self-talk and affirmation statements. 10.Use positive visualization. 11.Practice. 12.Evaluate and revise goals as necessary. 13.Persevere. 14.Reward yourself. 15.Record progress on your goals. 5. Dynamic Goal Setting Involves recording clear objectives and required actions to achieve them. The main reason people don’t achieve goals is because they don’t set any to begin with! Follow these steps to focus your efforts and to maximize your goal achievement:

10. 6. Positive Action When you take regular positive action ( no matter how small ) and make progress toward goals, you create real evidence of achievement. This increases confidence and creativity and boosts your momentum. Action fuels more action! Deliberately plan and regularly work toward your goals to maximize your success.

11. 7. Assertive Abilities Assertiveness conveys self-esteem and capability. Employers hire people who behave confidently and are able to convey their job qualifications comfortably and clearly. Assertive behavior is: Standing up for your own rights Standing up for your own rights. Expressing yourself honestly, courteously, and comfortably Expressing yourself honestly, courteously, and comfortably. Observing and respecting the rights of others Observing and respecting the rights of others.

12. 8. Self-Esteem Builders Feeling good about yourself projects confidence. Self-esteem is your belief in your abilities and your worth. Make a list of your positive traits and negative traits? Which is longer? Hopefully, your positive list! If so, you have a good self-esteem. If the negative list is longer, you must work harder to develop a strong sense of self- confidence. Negative self-image holds you back by promoting fear of failure. It prevents you from taking risks that can lead to growth and development. This results in stagnation, regression, and unsuccessful development. Stay positive : Believe you can do it! Believe you can do it! Identify your strengths. Identify your strengths. Practice positive self-talk. Practice positive self-talk. Surround yourself with a positive environment. Surround yourself with a positive environment. Look good to feel good. Look good to feel good.

13. 9. Proactive Skills The proactive approach to dealing with challenges focuses on taking positive action to master challenging tasks by taking full responsibility for their assignments and career growth. Focus on personal growth. Take responsibility for your own behavior and for personal and team assignments and productivity. Seek synergistic solutions through productive relationships. Employ personal motivation skills based on positive expectations. Encourage/assist others. Network and strive to develop mutually beneficial relationships, share information and perspectives, get and give support.