#169-1. Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.
-Gary Sinise
#169-2. Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
-Doug King
#169-3. The best careers advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it'.
-Katherine Whitehorn
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The first sounds simple but it is worth remembering that "working the engines" does not include blaming, moaning and whining (doing this regularly would make us what some trainers catchily call the BMW personality).
An occasional thoughtful pause is more productive than the continuous running around that gives the comfortable feeling of action. It even applies to thinking itself. When absorbing new information or ideas, intelligent people are especially prone to quick judgement and conclusions. A pause often uncovers additional nuances.
If you do not consider yourself as part of the young category, learn to like aspects of what you get paid for, learn to increase the proportion of time every week that you spend on activities you really enjoy. These often provide clues to your innate talents and strengths.
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