3 Professional Development Lessons Worth Learning

On most social media sites in addition to seeing with your very own eyes whether sitting in traffic in front of a graduation venue or even noticing large dining parties while eating at your favorite dining establishment, no doubt you’ve noticed the plethora of collegiate graduates that will soon flood into the labor market. Not all, but most (and I mean over 90%) are full of optimistic vigor and robust veracity for the road of professional life that lies ahead for most of them. With this understanding, please find below the Top 3 Business Lessons Learned from Former Managers that will help add some realistic context to the heightened ambitions of the aforementioned recent college grads… heed them cautiously…

Lesson Number One: Learn Humility Early
Learning to be a genuinely humble person is a tough business lesson to learn… and for good reason. For starters, it’s so anti-American and anti-American Business. From day one, we’re taught to go out and get yours without giving a second thought to the impact this all or nothing attitude has on the person and his / her professional and personal development in the long-term. Not at all am I advocating a universal everybody should be a winner syndrome which is foolishness because it’s not true. But what I am saying is that in order to put oneself in a position to win and accomplish long-held dreams, sometimes (particularly in the beginning of one’s professional career) you need to slow down and take inventory of where you are in life and ultimately where you would like to go, and this intentional slowing down takes humility. No one likes hearing about delayed gratification (what’s that… are you cursing at me???) or even paying a material price to obtain that for which one desires both professionally and personally. Again, humility is needed for this and can be learned.

Lesson Number Two: Learn To Set Goals that are Challenging and Motivate Transformation
Not to sound too familiar here, but the only constant in life is CHANGE. How does this play into setting goals that are challenging and motivate transformation? Well, it comes down to one word… persistence. One of the most valuable lessons I learned while in college was that goals are meant to change you into a better version of yourself. Yes, the goals are important and they provide a road map for one’s life while at the same time giving clarity for one’s life mission, but don’t get it twisted. Goals are meant to change you; to progress you into the becoming the best version of you possible. It’s really easy and rather subtle to get caught up in attaining various personal, spiritual, social, community, financial, and professional goals for the joy of experiencing what they can give you. However, learn to take inventory how these goals are changing you for the better. If they are not, then go back to the drawing board and push the reset button.

Lesson Number Three: Success is Defined by You
Here’s the big lesson: become comfortable in your own skin and your version of success. Earl Nightingale defines success as a man or woman in pursuit of a worthwhile goal.Read that last sentence and let it soak into your subconscious because it’s worth its weight in gold and more. Particularly in today’s society, it’s wickedly easy to get caught up in attempting to affirm one’s professional and even personal worth compared to others, BUT DON”T DO IT. The profound truth is that there’s only one version of YOU that exists in this world and as such there’s only one person qualified to define success for you… YOU. In saying this, keep in context all of your personal achievements and accolades, but don’t ever equate one’s self-worth with an institution, a piece of paper, a job, etc. You’re worth more than all of these and more.

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