Landmark Gives Back: Inspiring Students for a Future in the Trades
Over the last two years, I’ve taken the time to meet with local students at Milford High School who are taking classes in the trades and are considering a future career working with their hands. We’ve covered a variety of subjects, including practical advice on finding and interviewing for a job, how to be a good employee in any career that you choose, how to stay safe on a job site, and how developing a habit is the key to success.
Developing a Habit is Vital to Progress
What is it going to take for you to go from where you’re sitting here today to be the person that you want to be? That might take years, but there are steps to take along the way. When you identify what those steps are, you need to ask yourself what do I need to do to accomplish those steps and accomplish those goals? It takes 30 days to develop a habit, so if you’re doing something a particular way and you want to change how you do it, you need to establish a new pattern.
Developing a new habit is a choice. You want to create new routines, and then what you do with those routines is your choice. A lot of what happens to us today is the result of old behavior patterns that worked for us in the past. If you believe you can change, and all your actions are moving towards the change you want to see, it will become a reality. Habits shape your life far more than you probably realize.
My Advice
Hard work and good habits are assets that should be nurtured. Sound practices are essential for all students to protect investments of time and money and to achieve educational goals. All learning, however, is a process that takes specific steps.
Good habits are easily forgotten if we lack the discipline to act on them daily continually. Some of the practices that can make you more successful are already within your grasp you need to figure out how to work them in throughout your day. The good habits of a person contribute to the building of their career when a person has good habits in their daily life, then they will be happier and satisfied with their work.
