As a career success coach I’m always looking for new ways to get my message across to people who want to create a successful life and career.  My new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Success Advice…All in 140 Characters or Less has just gone to the printer.  I’ve been tweeting about career success, so I decided to turn my tweets into a book. 

Success Tweets is based on the career success advice in my Career Success GPS system.  It focuses on my 4Cs of success model: clarity of purpose and direction; commitment to taking personal responsibility for your career success; self confidence and competence in four areas – positive personal impact; outstanding performance; dynamic communication and relationship building.

Here are 21 of my favorite career success tweets in the book…

Tweet 1 – Clarity: Define exactly what career and life success mean to you.  It’s easier to hit a clear, unambiguous target.

Tweet 3 – Clarity: Think of your purpose as your personal mission; why you are on this earth.  Your direction is your vision for the next 3 to 5 years.

Tweet 18 – Clarity: You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.  Your values help you make decisions in ambiguous situations.

Tweet 21 – Commitment: You’re in charge!  Commit to taking personal responsibility for creating the successful life and career you want and deserve.

Tweet 27 – Commitment: Create goals in all areas of your life: career, personal, business, family, hobbies, health and fitness. Make sure they are congruent.

Tweet 34 – Commitment: Treat failures as the tuition you need to pay to succeed. If you have a setback, just choose to react positively and learn something.

Tweet 43 – Confidence: Optimism is contagious.  Become a positive, optimistic person.  Surround yourself with positive people.  They will build your confidence.

Tweet 46 – Confidence: Defeat fear. Here are 4 steps to deal with fears that can sabotage your success. Identify it. Admit it. Accept it. Do something about it. 

Tweet 59 – Confidence: Give so much time to building your self confidence and improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Tweet 61 – Competence, Positive Personal Impact: Create and nurture your unique personal brand. Stand, and be known for, something. Make sure that everything you do is on brand.  

Tweet 69 – Competence, Positive Personal Impact: Be well groomed and appropriate for every situation. Always dress one level up from what is expected. You’ll stand out from the crowd.

Tweet 76 – Competence, Positive Personal Impact: Always act like a lady or gentleman. It’s not old fashioned; it’s smart business and leads to a successful life and career.

Tweet 81 – Competence, Outstanding Performance: Become a lifelong learner. The half-life of knowledge is rapidly diminishing. Staying in the same place is the same as going backwards. 

Tweet 86 – Competence, Outstanding Performance: Stay focused.  Don’t get distracted.  Treat time as the precious commodity that it is.  Manage your time and life well.

Tweet 92 – Competence, Outstanding Performance: Determine your peak energy times.  Schedule “high brain” tasks then and “low brain” tasks at times when your energy is lowest. 

Tweet 104 – Competence, Dynamic Communication: Learn how to handle yourself in conversation.  A brief conversation with the right person can greatly help – or hinder your career. 

Tweet 111 – Competence, Dynamic Communication: Become a clear, concise writer.  Make your writing easy to read and easy to understand.  Use simple straightforward language.

Tweet 117 – Competence, Dynamic Communication: Presentation steps: 1) Determine the message.  2) Analyze the audience.  3) Organize the information. 4) Design visuals. 5) Practice.

Tweet 121 – Competence, Relationship Building: Get genuinely interested in others. Help bring out the best in everyone you know.  Others will gravitate to you. 

Tweet 127 – Competence, Relationship Building: Pay it forward.  Build relationships by giving with no expectation of return. Give of yourself and time to build strong relationships. 

Tweet 137 – Competence, Relationship Building: Do your job; give credit to others for doing theirs. Everyone likes to work with people who share the credit for a job well done.   

The common sense point here is simple.  Success is a function of four Cs – clarity, commitment, confidence and competence.  Successful people: 1) clarify their purpose and direction in life; 2) commit to taking personal responsibility for their career success; 3) build unshakeable self confidence; and 4) are competent in four areas – positive personal impact, outstanding performance, dynamic communication and relationship building.  I have just sent my new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Success Advice…All in 140 Characters or Less, to the printer.  It’s a compilation of tweets on how to apply the 4Cs to build your career success.  I think it is one of the more clever things I’ve done as a career success coach.  I hope you do too.  I’ll let you know when it is available.

That’s my take on how to apply the 4 Cs of success to create the career success you want and deserve.  What’s yours?  Please take a few minutes to leave a comment sharing your thoughts with us.  As always, thanks for reading.

Bud