Follow your heart

Head of IBM Plant Location International, IBM consulting services. Roel Spee

Throughout my career, the best advice I ever get would be:

- Follow your heart. If you are passionate for what you do, and strongly believe in it, then go for it.

- Have fun in your work. If you are not having fun anymore, it's time for a change.

- Always think positive, and be constructive. If things go wrong or you have bad luck at times, try to find out what you learned from it and get stronger by learning from mistakes or bad experiences. If you have criticism about others, don't just say that they are doing something wrong, but add your constructive advice to your criticism.

- Never be satisfied with yourself, be critical to your own performance. Put yourself in the position of your 'client' and ask yourself the question whether he/she would be satisfied with your performance.

- Keep the work-life balance right, don't mix up work with private life. You don't live to work, but you work to live. Working too hard and too long creates burn outs, and makes you less efficient, and less creative.

There's probably more, but I guess this would be helpful with your career.

●thank you for your question：“As you said, we should follow our heart, put faith in what we are passionate for, and keep the work-life balance right. But sometimes we may get a kind of unsure if we are really doing what we want. And sometimes when we are fully devoted to our jobs, we may ignore other things, we loss the balance. So how do you think we can do better in finding what to do, and do it right？”

“Take time for self reflection. Every once in a while it's good to evaluate yourself, and asses what you wish to do next and how to achieve. Do this at moments that you decide, and not only when your superiors request it.”

Adin Wisdon——the Best Advice I ever Get in my Career

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Destiny willed.