5 Habits successful people do over the festive break

Holiday Hustle: 5 Things successful people do over the festive break

daphne

14 Dec 2017

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Setting new budgets
Evaluate your 2017 budgets and set a new budget for 2018. Here are the steps you should follow: track your spending, set your goals, break down your expenses, adjust any bad habits and lastly, keep checking in. It's always important to record your expenses to your budgets. This way, it will help you to keep your money habits in control.
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Take up courses
If you have the opportunity to enrich and improve yourself, go for it! Consider pursuing a certification or sign up for professional development courses within your field. It would help you greatly if you want to get a pay raise or even a promotion. Plus, it's a great way to get to know other professionals within the same industry. A win-win situation don't you think?
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Help out where and when you can
Be it your family, friends, acquaintances or strangers, do not hesitate to lend a helping hand. Down the line, you will only do yourself good by building a reputation as someone helpful and generous. The people you've helped will remember you and in future, enrich your life by returning the favour.
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Reconnect with your old friends
The holidays are the perfect time to reconnect with some of your old friends or colleagues over catch up and coffee. It's one way to let them know you remember them and another way to get closer to those who can perhaps help you out professionally.
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Host a get together party
Hosting a get together holiday party might be the easiest and quickest way to get to know new people. For example, second and third cousins you've never met before, your parents' friends and colleagues and even your children's friend's parents. This is the chance you need to take to tap into a whole new network of professionals! It's going to be a whole lot of socialising and getting to know each other you'd probably want to host a great party for.

Spend your holidays wisely!

Have you started planning for 2018? If you haven’t, you might want to start during your holidays instead of waiting until January to set goals and take action.

Why? Because December is the best time to kickstart your new year! It’s the time of the year where there’s an occasion to host parties, attend dinners and meet up with your old friends and colleagues to socialise and seek their advice, all while celebrating the festive season!

As career professionals especially, you should make full use of your December holidays to improve yourself, so that you can return from the holiday break fresh, prepared, productive and confident for the new year. In order to do that, above are the 5 things you should do over the holidays to gear yourself up for a successful new year ahead!

Daphne Leo

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