Almost all working professionals aim at proving themselves and excelling in their professional careers. If you are always keeping your fingers crossed for a quick promotion, a steep hike in pay or a fast growth in your career graph, its time to do more than just keeping your fingers crossed! Its time for some sincere and focused action.

Here are tips you can follow to reach your goals and excel in your career path -

1. Organise Your Work Space & Yourself - Keep your files, papers and documents in order to avoid unnecessary clutter and delays. Maintain a To-Do list for the day / week and make sure to enter tasks in their order of priority.

2. Be a Good Team Player - Be willing to listen to others when working in a team. At the same time, learn to get your thoughts and ideas across to others in your team. Be open to helping others - you never know when you might need their help too.

3. Out Your 100% In Whatever You Do - If you put your honest efforts in every task that you take up, you will be able to maintain your success rate and move / step closer to your goals.

4. Have Confidence In Your Abilities - Understand your strengths and seize every opportunity to demonstrate what you can do.

5. Learn From Others - Instead of falling prey to jealousies, try to learn from the successes and achievements of others. Analyze what is different about their approach towards work and gain inspiration from them.

6. Give Yourself Time To Relax - While working hard is important, relaxing after a hard day's work is also very important. Organise your time in such a way so that you have the opportunity to relieve stress and tensions. Enroll yourself for meditation / yoga classes, go for a walk, pick up a hobby - the choice is yours to make.

7. Take care of yourself and avoid carrying your work / office related tensions home. Seek satisfaction in whatever you do.

If you feel you are not happy with some aspect of your job, try to find out the reasons for it and then move towards bringing about positive changes.