Comments on: Buddha’s Got Some Good Career Advice http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/03/buddhas-got-some-good-career-advice/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Bailey http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/03/buddhas-got-some-good-career-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Christopher Bailey Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:55:22 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/03/25/buddhas-got-some-good-career-advice/#comment-40 Marks, it's so much easier to see the problem as one that's <i>out there</i>. When you bring it home as your problem, you're forced to make changes. These changes might mean you have to take a good look at your own identity and purpose: who am I and what am I out to accomplish? With those folks you do challenge, don't give up. Maybe even consider changing the way you challenge them. Then the problem won't be out there, but with you. This is one of those times where it tends to cut both ways. Marks, it’s so much easier to see the problem as one that’s out there. When you bring it home as your problem, you’re forced to make changes. These changes might mean you have to take a good look at your own identity and purpose: who am I and what am I out to accomplish? With those folks you do challenge, don’t give up. Maybe even consider changing the way you challenge them. Then the problem won’t be out there, but with you. This is one of those times where it tends to cut both ways.

]]> By: Marks Mason http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/03/buddhas-got-some-good-career-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Marks Mason Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:29:08 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/03/25/buddhas-got-some-good-career-advice/#comment-39 I totally agree! Ultimately, you are responsible for your own self and professional development. It is important to not only understand this but to take control. I come accross so many people who have all the excuses in the world why things are not going well for them in their professional or private lives but when I challenge them to assert themselves and attempt to take some form of control even more excuses are mentioned! As Richard Carlson says "You cannot help people who are unwilling to help themselves.," I totally agree! Ultimately, you are responsible for your own self and professional development. It is important to not only understand this but to take control.

I come accross so many people who have all the excuses in the world why things are not going well for them in their professional or private lives but when I challenge them to assert themselves and attempt to take some form of control even more excuses are mentioned! As Richard Carlson says “You cannot help people who are unwilling to help themselves.,”

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