Being a major proponent of advancing your career through developing yourself in non-artistic areas such as people skills, marketing, branding, sales and financial literacy, I am also aware that you might become the classic “jack of all trades and master of none” if you’re not careful. How do you achieve and maintain balance? You don’t.
Consider this from Genuine Curiosity quoting advice from a supervisor to a person struggling with their failures and challenges from the past year:
“Sure, we can discuss what you’ve learned from those challenges, but I don’t want to spend too much time on that.
“One of the things I’ve learned in my career is that we all have
areas of strength and areas of weakness. A 10% improvement in a
strength can make a huge difference; a 10% improvement in an area of
weakness probably won’t have nearly as much of an impact.“Let’s focus on how to make the most of your strengths and make them even stronger.”
This is great advice for two reasons. First, you are natually able to imporve areas in which you already excel. This means you’ll have encouraging progress to keep you going. Second, your unique combination of strengths is what makes you YOU. And as I said in my last post, YOU is what you need to be shouting to the world.
