By William Arruda由William arruda

If you want to get ahead in your career, you have to stop using four–letter words that begin with the letter ‘F’.如果你想在事业上取得成功，你必须停止使用四个字母词开头字母' f ' 。 No, I’m not talking about cleaning your mouth out with soap.不，我不是谈论清洁你的口出用肥皂。 Of course, cursing your boss is probably not going to get you very far.当然，骂你的老板可能是不打算让你很远。 But the F–words I share with you here are far more lethal, more destructive and more devastating to your career and professional fulfillment.但架F -换句话说我同意与你在这里是远远更具杀伤力，更具破坏性和更具破坏性到您的职业和专业的实现。

The ugliest four–letter words that begin with ‘F’ can hold you back if you don’t keep them in check.最丑恶的四个字母词开头的' f '可容纳你回到如果你不使他们在检查。 The words?的话呢？

F _ _ R f _ _ r
FA _ _ 发_ _
F _ N _ f _ n _

Have you guessed them?你猜他们呢？

The key to career success is to get the F–words out of your vocabulary, mindset and actions.关键的职业生涯的成功是获得的F -换言之出您的词汇，思维和行动。 Here’s how.这里的如何。

Fear 恐怖

Sometimes fear is good.有时恐惧是好的。 If you are walking alone down a dark alley at night, fear will keep you alert.如果你是步行，仅下降一个黑暗的胡同在夜间，恐惧将随时向你提高警觉。 However, in the workplace, fear is often less productive.然而，在工作场所，担心的是，往往较少的生产力。

I work with lots of clients, many at the C–level, most of whom can become paralyzed or at least ‘slowed down’ by fear from time to time.我工作的很多客户，很多在C级，其中大部分是可以成为瘫痪或至少是'放缓'恐惧会不时作出修订。 And once they are able to look at the situation that prompted the fear from a different lens, they open up to new opportunities.一旦他们能看的情况，这促使恐惧从一个不同的镜头，他们开辟了新的机会。

In your job search, fear can prevent you from making a networking connection or asking a high–profile colleague for help.在您的求职，恐惧可以防止你从一个网络连接或叫一个高姿态的同事寻求帮助。 It can impact an interview with a prospective hiring manager or stop you from applying for a position that you would really like to have.它可以影响的采访与未来的招聘负责人或停止，你从申请的立场，你真的会想。 Fear impedes success; and fear breeds more fear.恐惧阻碍成功;和恐惧滋生更多的恐惧。 So the more you fear, the worse the fear becomes.因此，越多，您的恐惧，更担心成为。

Replace the word ‘fear’ with ‘greet’.一词取代'恐惧'与'迎接' 。 Greet challenges rather than being afraid of them.迎接挑战，而不是怕他们。 After all, a challenge is really an opportunity to shine and to grow and demonstrate your greatness.毕竟，一个挑战，实在是一个机会，焕发出和成长，展示您的伟大。 If you hope for the best rather than fear the worst as you search for your next job, you’ll be far more successful, and you’ll enjoy the process.如果您希望争取最好的，而非最坏的恐惧，作为你搜索您的下一步工作，您将远远更为成功，您可以享受的过程。

Fail 失败

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” “成功是有能力去从一个失败到另一个没有损失的积极性” 。
–Sir Winston Churchill主席先生邱吉尔

If you never fail, you aren’t taking enough risks.如果你从来没有失败，你是不采取足够的风险。 And without risk, you don’t grow or stretch yourself.和无风险，你不成长，或舒展自己。 Without growth, you stagnate, while those around you move ahead.没有增长，则停滞不前，而那些你身边，继续向前迈进。 Failing, if you look at it from a different perspective, is really a step in succeeding.否则，如果你看看它从不同的角度，实在是一个成功的一步。 So replace the word ‘fail’ with ‘grow’.因此，改为'失败'与'成长' 。

Often, it is fear of failure that prevents action.往往是害怕失败阻止的行动。

In your job search, failing can be valuable.在您的求职，否则可宝贵的。 When you get down to the shortlist of candidates but are not selected, you can learn a lot that will be useful to your next hiring opportunity – perhaps for an even better position.当你坐下来入围的候选人，但没有被选中，你可以学到很多东西，将是有益的您下次雇用的机会-或许为一个更美好的立场。 If you chose not to risk failure, you risk growth.如果您选择不要冒险失败，你的风险增长。

Highlighting your failures during a job interview can be just as powerful.突出你的失败，在工作的面试，可正如强大。 Let a prospective manager know that you are motivated to take calculated risks, and willing to fail if it means learning, growing professionally, and moving forward.让准经理知道你的动机是采取计算风险，并愿意失败，如果它意味着学习，越来越多的专业，并向前迈进。 Take inventory of events that you classified as failures and look for the growth that came from that.清点你们组织的活动列为失败和寻找增长来自这一点。 That growth is valuable content for your resume, cover letter, and personal web site.增长是有价值的内容，为您的简历，封面信，以及个人网站。

Fine 美好的

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” “平庸的一无所知，高于本身，而是人才，即时确认的天才” 。
–Sir Arthur Conan Doyle主席先生阿瑟柯南道尔

I think fine is the ugliest of all four–letter words.我认为，罚款是最丑恶的所有四个字母的话。 No one gets excited about things that are fine.没有人得到兴奋的事情是罚款。

“Hey Chris, how’s the new guy in sales doing?” “喂克里斯，如何的新的销售家伙在做什么？ ”

“Oh, he’s fine.” “哦，他的罚款” 。

Fine, adequate, average, OK.罚款，已经足够，平均确定。 Do you want your work or candidature to be described with these words?你是否想您的工作或候选人形容这些话呢？

Yet, you were trained from a young age to become fine.然而，你的训练从年轻时就成为罚款。 In fact, your full–time job has probably involved resolving weaknesses instead of maximizing strengths.事实上，在您完整的兼职工作，可能已涉及解决的弱点，而不是最大化的优势。 Sure, I think it’s great to improve your weaknesses – but not at the expense of maximizing your strengths, and only if those weaknesses will get in the way of your success.当然，我认为它的伟大，以改善您的弱点-但不是在牺牲最大化自己的长处，只有当这些弱点将得到的方式，您的成功。 When you apply your strengths to everything you do, you raise yourself far above ‘fine.’ You become great, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary.当您申请自己的长处，以一切你这样做，你提出自己远远高于'罚款。 '你成为伟大的，优秀的，特殊的，非同寻常。 And that’s how you want to be known.这就是如何你想成为众所周知的。 Isn’t it?是不是？

When you stop being fine and focus on your greatness, people will use superlatives to describe you.当您停止被罚款，并专注于自己的伟大，人们将使用最高级形容词来形容你。 You start to build your personal brand around those things that make you differentiated and interesting.你开始建立你的个人品牌，围绕这些东西，让你有区别的和有趣。

Replace the word ‘fine’ with ‘great’ and strive for greatness by leveraging strengths rather than improving weaknesses.一词取代'罚款'与'伟大的'争取的伟大利用的优势，而不是改进的弱点。 Never settle for adequate.从来没有解决足够的。

If your resume or online identity is fine, work with a career coach to make it great.如果您的个人简历或在线身份是好的，工作与职业生涯教练，使伟大的。 And if you interviewing skills are ‘fine’ practice interviewing until they are stellar.如果你面试技巧是'罚款'的做法，面试，直至他们恒星。 After all, with so many candidates for each open position, it isn’t likely that the hiring manager will be satisfied with fine.毕竟，这么多的候选人为每个开放的立场，这是不太可能雇用经理人将是满意的罚款。

Eliminate the F–Words 消除了F -的话

To eliminate these words, practice makes perfect.要消除这些换言之，实践，使完善。 And the key to eliminating them is to first recognize when they are part of your vocabulary and your actions.和的关键，以消除他们是首先承认，当他们的一部分，您的词汇和您的行动。 So it’s up to you.因此，它的成立给您。 “Fear, fail, fine” or “greet, grow, great”. “恐惧，失败，被罚款”或“迎接，成长，伟大的” 。 Decide which words will be a part of your vocabulary and approach to your job search, and then make decisions accordingly.决定哪些话将是一个部分的词汇和方法，您的求职，然后作出相应的决定。

Be great! 伟大！

William Arruda is a career coach and one of the world’s leading personal branding experts. 威廉arruda是一个职业教练和一个世界领先的个人品牌专家。 He, along with his partner, Kirsten Dixson, developed the Reach Branding Club, a unique, web–based, multi–media personal branding program for consultants, executives and professionals with members from all over the world. 他，与他的合作伙伴，克尔斯滕dixson ，开发了达到品牌俱乐部，一个独特的，基于Web ，多媒体课件的个人品牌计划的顾问，行政人员和专业人士与大家来自世界各地。