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Career Zingers #11: A Fresh Start

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There is the possibility of growing in the most difficult of places

New Year’s Day is fading fast in our rearview mirror. Perhaps you dreamed of a career change or made a career resolution and broke it. You believe all is lost, thinking now you’ll wait until your birthday in late August to make a fresh start on your career.

When can we start over? The truth is, anytime. The next moment invites you to begin again. And the moment after sends a second invitation. And each moment does this again and again and again. Don’t dither, postpone, or procrastinate on career change for a special event or specific date on the calendar. Close the door on real or imagined setbacks and open the door for a fresh start right now. And if this fresh start doesn’t proceed as planned the next moment after that is a great time to begin.

David Zinger educates and coaches for career, employee, work, and leadership engagement. He loves reading and weeding.

Engaging Zingers #6: Stop Trying to Be Great — Be Good!

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Career Zinger: Doing good work is the pathway to career success.

Ed Sheeran had the biggest hit song of 2017: Shape of You.

Bernadette Jiwa, in writing about 12 lessons derived from the biggest hit of the year stated:

You have to put yourself into the situations that give you the best chance of doing great work.”

The best situation I know to give yourself a chance for great work is to continually strive to do good work. For three years I have been adamant in defining work and employee engagement as: “good work done well with others every day.” If you do good work every day, once in a while the situation may arise that you will stumble into great work.

Stop trying to be great, be good!

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David Zinger is an expert on employee engagement with a keen focus on career engagement for 2018.

 

Engaging Zingers #5: Be Resolute Without Being Coercive

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Career Zingers #5: Be Resolute, Don’t Be Coercive.

Ah, New Year’s Day signals a time when many of us make resolutions to advance our career or begin the 100 other self-improvement initiatives we scheme up. The good news is that we don’t resist change but the bad news is we resist coercion. We can be quite self-coercive with our own career development. Trying to make ourselves or force ourselves to be better. This sows the seeds for failure. For 2018, I encourage you to be resolute without being coercive.

I’m David Zinger, engage along with me, the best is yet to be.

Engaging Zingers #3: On the Path

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Career Zingers #3: On the Path. 

As we speed into 2018 many of us make resolutions and dream of an idealized year ahead. Many of our resolutions are neither attainable nor sustainable. We get caught up in the frenetic compulsion to get to some idealized destination. Stop your motor mind and start thinking of yourself on a path. It can be helpful to travel together, don’t forget to appreciate the scenery right in front of you, enjoy some snacks on the way, and walk on.

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David Zinger focuses on employee engagement, work engagement, and career engagement.

Engaging Zingers #1: The Wooden Yardstick

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Career Engagement: Incomparable.

Merry Christmas. I hope the gift you open on Christmas day is yourself.

Comparing yourself or your career development to others is to transform yourself into a wooden yard stick. You may be able to measure things but you are no longer human. The next time you feel jealous, diminished, or envy of another person, ask yourself:

Do I want to be a wooden yard stick or a living human being who is simply incomparable?

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David Zinger is an employee engagement expert focused on career engagement in 2018. If you want to make a difference in your own career reach out to David today at david@davidzinger.com