Tip # 61 Upgrade skills and expand knowledge base
A corporation does not need stale ideas from stale employees. Invest the time in upgrading your skills and expanding your knowledge base.
Learn a new language, add to your repertory of software, and take life-enhancing courses offered by your local college or university.
Dont procrastinate, because youll never know when your company will create a position requiring a foreign language.
And even if half of them wont admit, theyre suddenly looking wonderful.
Add Procrastination
You can leave the easy parts for later.
You go on to the next task, until you actually get used to the idea of doing, rather than procrastinating. In Lives Without Balance, Steven Carter and Judith Sokol (Villard Books, 1992) discuss the phenomenon of confirmed bachelors, male and female. Academic procrastination can be disastrous if not reined in properly! An individual was overheard saying in the caf the other day that hed never forgive himself for stalling in his decision to buy a piece of property that had everything location, great low maintenance condition, reasonable price, recent renovations, etc. Youll say to yourself, what she said makes sense, so you mull over it, leaving the task undone. |