Evaluate your strengths and weakness – Every job is made up of five to seven areas. For instance, for a freelance writer, the seven areas might be: 

  1. prospecting
  2. establishing rapport
  3. building credibility
  4. identifying needs & presenting solutions 
  5. asking for referrals
  6. writing copy
  7. upgrading your skills
Your weakest area is the one that determines your income and how fast you will advance in your career. 
Focus on areas where you need to improve – Once you've evaluated your strengths and weaknesses, focus with laser-like precision on improving your weakest area. Continue doing so until you score as high as possible in each area.

Identify what you love to do – You may already know the answer to this, but you might not have committed it to paper or put together an action plan to turn what you love to do into your full-time career.
Maybe you'd like to write a screenplay for a blockbuster movie … write the perfect spy novel … become the world's best white paper writer.
Or perhaps what you're doing now is exactly what you want to be doing.
Determine what your ultimate career goal in life is and then commit to it – If what you love to do and what you currently do are not the same thing, you need to put together an action plan to make them one and the same.
The first step is to write down the ultimate goal for your career. Let's say your ultimate career goal is to become a professional poker player. First thing you should do is determine how realistic it is – and how badly you want it. If you determine it is indeed a realistic and achievable goal, the next step is to put together an action plan. Your plan should include benchmarks and a deadline.
Become a lifelong do-it-yourself project – In Goals, a "3+1 formula" for mastering any skill.
The first step is to read about the area you want to become more skillful in every day – even if only for 15 or 30 minutes.
Next, listen to educational audio programs on the subject in your car. 
Thirdly, attend seminars and workshops on your subject. Many lives have been changed completely by attending a single one- or two-day seminar on a key subject.
The +1 part of the formula is to take action every time you hear a good idea.
Practice, practice, and more practice – No matter what you want to do in your career, there is no substitute for actually practicing your craft. The more you practice, the more competent and skilled you'll become. And the faster you'll start to experience all the benefits of being a master at your craft.

Keep a laser-like focus on the skills you'll need in the future – What additional knowledge, skills, and information will you need to be a leader in your marketplace in the months and years ahead? You should always be projecting yourself three to five years in the future. Determine what you need to be studying. Plan for both now and down the road so you'll be, if not the best, one of the best paid people in your industry.

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