A colleague of mind is retiring tomorrow at the age of 60. He is a Service Delivery Manager and has earned the respect from the people all around. He manages client and meeting with excellent and is always passionate about work. For us, he is the source of inspiration on how to lead life in this ever-changing and high pressured work world. Yesterday, he shared with us his experience in his career for the last 40 years and how he manages to conduct himself in such an excellent manner.
1) Choose a mentor who you can look up to for guidance and inspiration
2) Aim high
3) Learn something new everyday. If you are not able to learn something new, share your knowledge with others so that the education process still takes place
4) You cannot change history. Don’t regret of what has happened. Whatever happened, has happened. So, you can only learn from history and learn from it.
5) Treat others the same way you would like to be treated.
6) In the morning when you wake up, you decide what you want to be today. Maintain positive attitude.
7) From 7 habits of highly effective people, “Everything is important but nothing is urgent”.
8) Do the best of what you can in everything you do.
9) Manage your time properly. Use calendar in outlook effectively to plan on what you want to do that day. So, you get the job done and not distrupted by too many meeting invites.
10) Life is about growth.
