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Two other Guides you should consider reading before using this Guide, are the Guides on Self-Love and Self-Expression. Without the beliefs needed for proper levels of self-esteem, self-worth. and self-confidence, three key elements of self-love, and without the beliefs held by those who are able to show themselves and others what they are able to accomplish, career advancement is much more difficult than it need be, if not impossible.

If you want to advance your career or professional standing, you should not take a close look at your own career until after you have carefully studied the successful careers of others. That process should start with studying the beliefs held by those with successful careers.

Otherwise, you are missing the chance of benefiting from known information, the experience of others. Why have to invent the wheel all over again? We can study the very successful careers of others and learn from them. How did they do it?

Sure, some people inherited great positions or wealth, may have had some luck, some may have been unscrupulous to get successful, and there may be some who only failed due to circumstances beyond their control. We should be interested in those who have done very well at their careers due manly to their own skills and efforts, enhanced by their adaptive beliefs.

Many careers, and whole companies, have had huge ups and downs. We want to know what helps produce those “ups”, and how to avoid the “downs”. Everything we do or don’t do, and everything we say or don’t say, is based on what we believe about the particular subject. Then what we do and say, our behavior, determines what results we get on that particular subject.

So guess what. If you hold beliefs that lead to unsuccessful careers or to no careers, that’s what you get. If you hold beliefs that lead to successful careers, that is your result. There are a couple of catches. The same person could have successful, adaptive, beliefs regarding a career at one point in time, and could have unsuccessful, non-adaptive, beliefs regarding the same or a different career at a different time. Also, we need to define what it is that constitutes a successful career. Is it a career that brings us personal fulfillment and satisfaction, or does “success” require a certain amount of community recognition, reputation, position or titles obtained, or economic gain?

In this Guide, we will not be focusing on major economic success. Becoming wealthy can be considered a career in itself, and is dealt with in a separate Guide on Wealth.

My sense of this issue is that economic success does generally speak to the success of a career if good financial reward is generated by one’s career. On the other hand, if personal fulfillment and satisfaction are achieved, that is also certainly important, and it.

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