by ronesh purieveryone wants to be successful most professionals enter the corporate world with big dreams they want to make it big and look good in their own eyes as well as those of peers friends and family the fact of the matter is that most of us enjoy being a hero thats nothing wrong as it does motivate us to work harder and smarter however having met over 5000 candidates in my career i have noticed that often a number of very talented candidates do not attain their potential simply because they do not strategise their career well enoughseveral candidates just look at opportunities in isolation and not make moves that will help take them to their goal we do not realise that reaching the top position in our career is like playing a chess game where every move must be thought through and the potential of the opportunity to take us a step closer to our goal is important unfortunately a career is not a 100metre dash that some of us think it is the moot question is what can help accelerate your career are we focused on gamechanging opportunities and their potential to help us take a quantum jumpfix a huge problemyes the biggest opportunity for you is when you can fix a huge problem if you are hungry for a huge opportunity look for a huge problem that you can solve remember no one wins a nobel prize by doing ordinary work you need to excel and bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity a lot of capable professionals look at a problem and get scared life does not offer easy choices so if you think you have the capability to deliver then seize the opportunity do be prepared to work hard and smart and if you think you can fix a problem do seize it with both hands yes if you are successful your career would move to a different orbit you would have arrived and would be in huge demand in reality there is paucity of professionals who have fixed huge problems and if you are one of them the corporate world would woo you and you would command a huge premium high risks high gains you will be a hero in the true sense the world looks very closely at what you achieved for your employers and you would reap huge rewardsgive more and take lesssometime ago a very successful ceo of a very large company told me his secret of success he felt it always pays to be underpaid rather than overpaid it is funny but true that when you take money out of your equation more gamechanging opportunities fall into your lap as money is a distraction that confuses most people i have noticed several professionals missing out on gamechanging opportunities when they perceived money being 510 less than their expectations they just missed the big picture as they gave more importance to money now and less to the opportunity