Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how to get ahead, how to “win,” and such things that are on a much larger scale than the daily grind that most of us face. In fact, it is that day to day grind that pulls down many of us - we go to work, come home exhausted, and often feel as though we’re just spinning our wheels.

你所知道的大部分的有關職業的建議都集中在大的圖片上,如何前進,如何”贏”, 并且這些建議比我們面對的日常工作的范圍大得多.實際上,日復一日的瑣碎的工作拖跨了我們很大一部分人, 我們早出晚歸,筋疲力盡, 經常感到自己就象是個旋轉的陀螺.

If you want to get ahead in your career and in your life, you need to start small and look at the immediate things you can do to help out your situation. If you’re sitting out there at your desk, tiredly wondering if there’s something better that you can be doing with your life, start with these fifteen tips that you can start executing immediately that will lead you down a path towards a better career.

如果你想要走在你職業和人生前面,你必須從小做起,從你力所能及的事情做起,讓自己走出困境.如果你只是無所事事的坐在自己桌子前面,想象是否有什么事情去做了可以使你的生活好起來.從這15條建議開始,你可以馬上執行, 可以引領你走向更好的職業.

Make a list of all of the things you did today/this week/this month to help your organization, and file them away.
Whenever you have a few spare moments, make a list of all of the things you are actually doing at work. Date them and provide specific examples. When you’ve made this list, drop it in a folder and let it sit there until your next performance review - or the next time you ask for a raise or a promotion. I do this regularly, which has allowed me to build up extensive positive documentation about my career.

給你今天,今周,今月做的所有的事情列個清單幫助你整理, 存檔.

當你有空的時候,給你實際在工作中做的事情列個清單. 寫上日期并舉出具體的例子. 完成后,放在文件夾里面直到你下次預習時候看,或下次你要提高和改善的時候看. 我定期做這個工作,給我的職業建立了大量的積極的文件.

Send a thank-you note
If you’ve recently been assisted in your career or personal development by someone, spend a few moments and send that person a handwritten thank you note. The respect, kindness, and personal touch of a handwritten thank you creates an indelible positive mark in your favor in the recipient’s mind, which can do nothing but help you out in the long run.

給幫助你的人寫個感謝條

如果你最近在工作上或是個人發展上受到別人的恩惠, 花點時間給他寫張感謝條. 帶有尊敬,善意和個人感情手寫的感謝條在幫助你的人的心中建立的不可磨滅和積極的記號對你有利,只會對你有長遠的利益.

Work on your writing skills
For me, The Simple Dollar is actually an active part of improving my own writing. Starting a blog related to a work-related topic that interests you is a good way to practice your skills. Don’t be lazy with it, though; focus on writing strong material that will engage others, because without it, you’re not really improving your skills at all, merely regurgitating facts.

提高你的文筆

對我而言,最簡單的就是提高我的文筆一個積極的部分. 從你對和工作有關的,而且自己有興趣的博客開始是個好辦法,可以鍛煉你的寫作技巧.別懶得去做,盡管規定主題限制其他的材料, 因為沒有他,你根本就不可能提高你的寫作技巧, 只不過是涌回事情.

Design some classy business cards for you
I have a small pile of business cards that are just for me (actually, they’re for The Simple Dollar), not for any firm I represent or work for or anything else. I drop these regularly, as envelope enclosures and in face-to-face opportunities. These cards are a reflection of me and what I wish to represent to people, and by getting quality ones, I create a positive impression on the recipients. Don’t go for the office store perforated ones, either; get them professionally done and in a high quality.

給自己設計些時髦的名片

我有一小堆名片,只是給自己的(實際上,他們是給私人的), 不是給任何我代表的或工作的公司. 我定期扔掉,要么要信封裝起來,要么就隨手扔掉. 這些名片是我的折射, 是我希望在人們面前表現出來的形象,如果找到了個好的,我就可以給別人留下好的印象,不要去辦公室里翻箱倒柜去找, 去做一張專業的高質量的.

Send a quick contact email
Got any professional contacts that you haven’t touched base with recently? Send them an email letting them know what you’re up to - and ask them what they’re up to. By this, I don’t mean clients - I mean professional acquaintances in the same field as you (contacting clients should be a regular part of your workflow). A quick email to the people you met at conferences last year can be a very good thing, as you never know if they might have a great opportunity available that could really help you out.

發一封快速聯系的電郵

找個你最近沒有聯系的人, 用專業的方式聯系他們.發封電郵問他最近怎么樣,告訴他你最近 的情況. 通過這樣,我不是指你的客戶, 我是指你同行業的熟人(聯系客人是你工作中定期要做的事情),一封給你去年在會議上認識的人的電郵是一件很好的事情. 因為你永遠不知道他是否有幫助你的可能性.

Suggest a solution to a persistent workplace problem
This is especially true for smaller things, not necessarily big enterprise-wide issues. Are people always complaining about the printers? Spec out an additional printer and ship a proposal for a new printer by your boss. Workplace tensions between two people? Figure out how to most discreetly move them far apart from each other, write it up, and ship it off. The key is to make the solution as complete as possible, so that the boss can tell you saw a problem, looked into how to solve it, and came up with a solution on your own.

對工作的地方經常出現的問題提出一個解決方法

這個對于小事情尤其實用,并不一定要是牽涉到整個公司的問題. 其他人是否總是抱怨打印機了? 找臺其他的打印機,給老板提個建議買臺新的. 公司你有怨對頭嗎? 找出他們,很謹慎地把他們分開,寫出來, 把他們調開. 最關鍵的是把解決方案盡可能完善.這樣老板就會說你看出了問題,并尋找如何解決,還自己提出了解決方法.

Pick up the phone and make a call
Keep in touch with what’s going on in the organization as a whole so you can be more informed when meetings occur. Pick up the phone and give someone else a call to see what you can learn, or take a stroll through different parts of the workplace to find out what others are up to. Don’t make a nuisance of yourself, but be aware of what is going on, how it can affect you, and how you might be able to leverage that to get ahead.

拿起話筒打個電話

保持和公司整體進展同步,你就可以更好的知道什么時候有會議, 拿起話筒給其他人打個電話,看看你可以了解到什么,或者到公司其他地方走走,看看其他人怎么樣了. 不要做討人厭的家伙,你必須知道發生什么事情,會不會影響到你,自己可能如何被促使前進.

Work on your language skills
Are you a non-native speaker of the language in your workplace? Spend your spare time working on the finer points. I find that listening to audiobooks and podcasts is an incredible way to pick up on the nuances of a language given that you already know the basics. If you don’t know the basics, seek out some audio courses on that language and get started. For myself, I’ve found that a great way to pick up a foreign language is to read a translation of a work I’m already very familiar with, such as Harry Potter.

提高你的語言技巧

你在你們公司是不是外地人? 把你的業余時間致力與提高你的本地語言. 我發現聽有聲讀物和聽力資料是提高你已經有基礎的語言的很有效的方法.如果沒有基礎,找些那門語言的有聲課程開始.對我自己來說,我已經找到了提高語言的很好的方法就是讀一本你很熟悉的翻譯本,例如<哈里波特>

Make yourself more presentable
It always helps to have a clean, fresh impression. I keep a few hygiene products in my traveling bag at all times: underarm deodorant, toothpaste, a toothbrush, some mouthwash, some facial cleanser, a comb, and some cologne. I make sure to clean myself up at least once a day, and often twice a day, when I have a few free moments. That way, I look freshly scrubbed at the 3:30 PM meeting - and having just washed my face vigorously, I feel more awake.

讓自己更精神

一個整潔清新的形象總是有用.在我的旅行包里總是有些保健產品,腋下除臭劑,牙膏,牙刷,洗口水, 洗面乳,一把梳子和古龍水. .當我有空的時候.我確保每天至少清潔一次,通常兩次.那樣,我下無3:00開會的時候看上去精神旺盛,只是洗了臉,我就感覺很清醒.

Polish your resume
There’s never a bad time to give your resume a bit of a touch up. Make sure it has plenty of action words and documents specific results that you’ve produced. In fact, your personal work documentation is a great way to look for ideas to spiff up your resume.

修修你的簡歷

給你的簡歷潤潤色不是壞事,確定你寫了很多有行動的的詞語和文獻明確的結果.實際上你個人的工作記錄是給你簡歷修改尋找方法的好途徑.

Read something on topics you plan to be facing in the future in your career
Don’t waste your time reading PerezHilton (unless you work for People magazine or something); instead, find resources that are related to your job and focus on those. If you spend your spare time at work browsing the web, at least spend that time browsing items that can potentially further your career.

讀些你將來會在工作中遇到的文章

別把時間浪費在讀PerezHilton(除非你在人民雜志之類的公司上班), 而是去找那些和你工作相關的資源并集中你的時間在上面. 如果你業余時間上網,那也要看那些可能有潛力推動你的工作的東西.

Prepare some comments in advance for your next meeting
Got a meeting later? Instead of dreading it, look at it as an opportunity to shine. Look at what the meeting agenda is and prepare some notes and thoughts that you can present during them. If you’re going to sit through someone’s presentation, find out what it’s going to be about and do some preparatory legwork in advance so you can ask a few astute questions.

提前給你的下個會議準備些評論

就快開會了.與其害怕,不如當成秀出自己的機會.看看會議的安排,準備些筆記,并意念自己可以在會議上陳述. 如果完全是聽別人講, 看看他要講什么,提前做些必要的預備工作,這樣你就可以問些機敏的問題.

Work on your public speaking skills
This seems like it would be difficult to do right now, but it’s not. Merely listen to the work of great public speakers on the internet, burn yourself a CD or two of speeches that really inspire you, then play them in your car on the way home and practice speaking along with them. You’ll learn a great deal about how to enunciate words to get your points across and influence others.

提高你的公共演講技巧

這個看起來現在沒辦法做,不是的。少去因特網上去聽一些偉大演講, 經常去聽可以真正激發你的一兩個演講, 然后開車回家時候可以練練,或跟著演講練習. 你會學到很多的如何用正確的詞語使你的觀點讓人接受,影響別人.

Clean your work area
Not only will this create a better impression of you in the eyes of others, you may also come across important materials that you thought were missing or lost. It’s also good to start (or enhance) a document filing system when you do this, so you can quickly find materials.

保持你工作的地方干凈清潔

這不僅僅可以讓你在別人眼里留下好的印象,你還會偶然找你一些重要的你認為已經丟了的資料.對你開始整理或要改善文件系統也會有好處,因為你可以很快找到資料.

Figure out where you want to be in five years - and create a plan for getting there
Spend some time visualizing where you want to be, then think about what it’s going to take to get there. From there, keep breaking down each piece in the process until the pieces are things you can do quickly - and start doing them. Every mountain climb is just a series of steps, after all.

想想你未來5年的要達到什么目標,為此制定計劃

花點時間看看你要達到什么目標,然后想想要做些什么才可以做到.從那里,把過程分成小片段,直到你可以很快完成,并開始做. 畢竟,沒登一座山都是一系列的步伐做到的.