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How to Accelerate Your Career: 25 Essential Tips

Start With Developing the Right Mindset

Ali Kursun
15 min readMar 16, 2023

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Tip # 1: Develop the Right Mindset

What Is: The Now Mindset

In today’s world, the most popular mindset is the Now mindset. People do not even think about the future when it arrives, but instead react to the future when it comes. This mindset is detrimental to anyone who depends on long-term planning and development.

What Was: The Past Mindset

The Past mindset can be one of the most comfortable or uncomfortable mindsets, with many people failing (consciously or not) to escape it. Being stuck in the past blocks the individual from moving forward in a positive way.

What Will Be: The Future Mindset

The Future mindset is the one we humans lack the most. We perceive the future as very difficult and undesirable because it is a big unknown. Many problems we face today — in business, the environment, relationships, and, to some degree, in technology transformations — result from not having a Future mindset.

The Solution

The Future mindset must work in tandem with the Past and Now, to understand what happened, what is happening, and what can happen. All three mindsets need to be in…

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Ali Kursun

Ali is a thought leader in transformation, change, and workforce strategy. He is the founder of sparkChief & Co. www.sparkchief.com and the author of six books.