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EDITORIALFEATURE

Use Education
to Boost Your Career
By Rita Santamaria

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our career is defined by you and
your vision of success. When you
think about your success and your
future successes take a moment to
list your current aha moments. What are
the specifics you are most proud of? Always keep in mind you have successes in
your personal world as well as your public or business world. Often, our personal
successes with family, children, and friends
help us overcome a disappointing business
situation. Without question, when a baby
accomplishes a milestone such as walk-

ing or talking, its parents bask in the joy of
that moment and all their other negative
thoughts disappear. When your child wins
a sports tournament, makes cheerleading,
or gets accepted to college, all other daily
woes from business are temporarily taken
away from your brain.
These daily personal successes should
get you motivated for the next day in your
business career; however, if your career
needs some re-creating or improvement,
start with your own personal analysis of

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how committed you are to your business
model. Do you get enthused about the
prospect of another sale? If the answer is
no, you need a career boost. If you are rewarded in your career with a sale and you
are ho-hum about it, your career needs a
boost. If the overall results of a good work
day don’t give you the enthusiasm to go
away from the day feeling satisfaction in
yourself, you need a boost.

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