If you would like to learn five strategies from highly successful people about how to
build your cloud architect career, well then, if so, this video is for you. Hi, my name
is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of GoCloud Architects, and we are an organization
dedicated towards building high performance cloud computing careers. Today, we're going
to talk to you about five traits that are seen in highly successful individuals and
how you can apply these five traits to your cloud architect career so you can get the
job of your dreams and have the career of your dreams. The first trait we're going to
talk about is the ability to delay gratification. Highly successful people, statistically speaking,
have the ability to delay gratification. What do I mean by this? If you have the opportunity
to spend your money on fun, like a trip, or spend your money on training, training is
a lot less fun and not having the money to spend on your vacation because you're spending
it on training can be a loss in the short term, but in the longterm, it could do wonders
for your cloud architect career.
Let's give you another example. It may be, for example, it's a Friday night and it's
seven o'clock at night and you've got an exam on Monday, but all your friends want to go
out on Friday night to go to the bar and get dinner as well. And you know you need to pass
that exam. By being able to delay that fun party night with your friends and instead
of being able to focus on studying, you'll pass your exam, you'll get your career. So
it's not always about the delaying gratification. We have to balance our work and life in our
lives. But the ability to delay gratification to get your goals and dreams is something
of highly successful individuals and highly successful cloud architects. The next thing
actually pertains to your attitude. Highly successful people have a positive attitude
regardless of the situation.
There are times where the environment is just so bad, and sometimes if you can just laugh
through the environment and embrace it for what it is and get through it, you will be
able to do unimaginably great things in your career. But you have to be able to fight through
the unhappiness, and in order to fight through and happiness, you've got to have a positive
attitude, you've got to believe it's possible to win, and you've got to believe in your
heart and with your conviction that you can reach your destination. So trait two of highly
successful people is a positive attitude. Let's talk about this third trait of highly
successful people, and that's actually reading. Highly successful people read a lot. When
you read, you learn. It improves your writing skills by reading more because you gets to
see different types of grammar.
But when you read, you learn and books are often very comprehensive, often far more comprehensive
than the average video. And by reading, you can learn. I will tell you in my career and
as long as I can remember over the last 25 years or so I've tried hard to read at least
one book per week. And these days, if I can't read for time, what I do is I buy audio books.
And that way I can still get the word for word unabridged book. I can listen to it while
I'm in the middle of something else. I focus on it. And in the end, I gain knowledge. So
successful people read. I highly recommend reading as much as possible. Read it in your
field or read it in the fields that support your fields. For example, if you want to work
in cloud computing know that the cloud is nothing more than a network and a data center.
So learn some networking and learn some data center stuff.
Read it and it'll make you a better cloud architect, and read it and you'll be prepared
for unknown and unknowable variables that are going to pop in your career. We're going
to have to have that deep technology knowledge. Now, constant improvement. Constant improvement
is something that highly successful people do. They are never ever satisfied. If they've
got a 95 on an exam, that's great. They want a 99 or even a 96. But they're always going
to work to get closer to perfection. Think about refining your tools. Think about the
Olympian. Everything they do all day, every day, except for their rest days, which are
pre-programmed, are all focused on achieving their mission. So constantly get better, constantly
improve your tool set, constantly sharpen your skills and you will have a fantastic,
fantastic cloud architect career. Now, I'm going to give you the last one, and the last
one, the evidence is so clear, mental toughness or grit is such a strong capability that every
highly successful person as a rule is very mentally tough and will not quit.
See if you stay in a challenge long enough and you fight through it, at some point you'll
win, because the other person on the other end might just get fatigued or burned out.
And the harder you work to be better than your competition and the more you can outwork
your competition, the more likely your chances are of success. So become mentally strong,
become someone that will fight through adversity and achieve your goals. Don't let a challenge
be scary. Look at the challenge as an opportunity to grow. Run headfirst into that challenge,
crush that challenge, and win. If you do this, you will have the unbelievable cloud architecture
career of your dreams. So now you know what our recommendations are, the ability to delay
gratification so you have the resources to achieve your goals. Keep a positive attitude,
because if you don't believe it's possible, you just can't win. Find a way to become mentally
tough so you can keep going, constantly improve yourself, and make sure you're read because
we want you to learn as much as possible.
Now, let me tell you about some free services we offer the cloud architect community. Every
Monday and every Thursday, we have a free How To Get Your First Cloud Architect Job
Webinar. We talk about how to get your first tech job, about hiring managers as desired,
things to be on your resume, certification portfolios that would matter to hiring managers,
and much, much more. And as a bonus, we do one hour of free coaching where you can ask
us any questions and we will answer them live on our Zoom call. Now, every Tuesday, we have
a free How To Get Real Cloud Architect Experience at Home Webinar. And on this webinar, we will
tell you everything that you need to do to become a competent and capable and experienced
cloud architect. And you can do all these things in your home. And that way, you'll
be able to get hired because you'll have cloud architect technology and you'll have cloud
architect competency and you'll have cloud architect career skills. So we do that on
Tuesdays.
Most Wednesdays, not every Wednesdays, most Wednesdays, we try and do a YouTube Live,
and it's a YouTube Live question and answer session where we just basically take your
questions and we answer them in real time. We try to do it most Wednesdays. Please subscribe
to our channel and you'll be notified of the next one, which we probably will do this Wednesday.
Now, let me tell you, if you're working on certifications, we have a free, complete AWS
Certified Solution Architect Associate Course. I will drop the link in the description below.
And we have a free AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Ebook. If you're going
to take a course, you probably should have an ebook that goes with it. And it's a comprehensive
book. I'll leave the link to that free ebook in the description below. Thank you so much
for watching these videos. We look forward to seeing you in another video very soon.
Take care and have a wonderful day.