There are many ways to do fine work. One approach is to focus on a specific activity you feel passionately about where you have the ability to deliver positive results.
The next step is to follow the principles you believe in, perform superb work and find solutions to challenges. You can then do your best to achieve the desired positive results.
Imagine that you want to follow this approach in your own way. This involves focusing on the following themes.
Passion
Some career coaches advise people to follow their passion. Others say this is not good advice. They suggest that people should focus on the things they do best.
Great workers often combine these elements. They pursue a passion where they have the ability to deliver positive results. They may feel passionately about encouraging people, designing gardens, finding a medical cure, caring for animals or doing another activity.
Such workers translate their passion into working towards achieving specific goals. They may aim to write an article, climb a mountain, teach an inspiring course, lead a team to success or achieve another goal.
Let’s return to your own life and work. What are the activities that give you positive energy? What are the activities you feel passionately about where you may have the ability to achieve positive results?
Imagine that you want to pursue one of these activities and work towards a specific goal. You may want to write an article, teach a seminar, create a website for people with a particular illness or do some other project.
If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to do the following things.
First, describe the specific activity you feel passionately about where you may have the ability to achieve positive results.
Second, describe the specific positive results you want to deliver when pursuing this activity.
Third, describe the specific benefits – both for yourself and other people – of achieving these positive results.
Principles
Great workers often focus on an activity the feel passionately about and aim to achieve certain goals. They then translate this into action by following their chosen principles.
They may take this approach when they are counselling people, coaching a sports team, directing a play, leading a business or in another professional role. Much depends, of course, on the kind of work they are doing. But here are some principles people may mention.
Principles – The Principles I
Aim To Follow In My Work Are:
To build on my strengths … To do work I believe in … To clarify what I can control in the situation – To be clear on the results I want to achieve – the picture of success … To do positive work that helps people or the planet.
To prepare properly … To set things up to succeed … To clarify the strategies I can follow to give myself the greatest chance of success …
To rehearse following these strategies and also managing any challenges.
To get some quick successes … To deliver high professional standards … To perform superb work … To focus on continuous improvement … To do my best to achieve the picture of success.
Let’s return to your own life and work. Imagine that you are clear on the specific passion you want to pursue and the positive results you want to achieve. What may be the principles you want to follow?
If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to complete the following sentences.
Positive Results
Great workers do their best to deliver the goods. You will have your own approach to achieving desired positive results. Bearing this in mind, however, here are some themes it can be useful to explore.
How can you keep doing the basics and then add the brilliance? How can you focus on continuous improvement? How can you clarify the specific things you are doing well plus the things you can do better and how?
How can you find solutions to challenges? How can you buy time to think and clarify: a) the real results to achieve; b) the possible ways forward together with the consequences: c) the route you want to follow?
How can you be a good finisher? What is your successful pattern for finishing? How can you follow this when doing your chosen activity? How can you flow, focus and finish? How can you add that touch of class? How can you deliver peak performances?
There are many ways to do fine work. One approach is to focus on a specific activity that you feel passionately about. It is then to follow your principles and do your best to achieve positive results.
Let’s return to your own life and work. If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to complete the following sentences.
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