While everyone struggles for a healthy work life balance, there are some people who have a normal, successful career while having an exciting and fun-filled social life. If you have both, then you’re a rock star. But what does it mean to be a rock star at work? Can you manage to become a Rock Star in real life and at work? These tips will help you bring out the inner rock star in you.

1. Voice your opinion.
Don’t be afraid to speak up your mind with your boss. If you think he’s making a big business mistake, address it to him in a tactful way. Definitely, your boss will appreciate them even if he may proceed with his own course. He will remember that you once voiced your opinion and will ask for your opinion in the future.

2. Maintain positive attitude.
Love your job and it will love you back. Bring passion to everything. You may be stressed with a lot of factors but if you stay on top of your game and put on the best attitude, you will most likely succeed.

Whatever it is that’s contributing to your discontent, shove it aside and do the best job you can, every single day. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

3. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Be cautious about this advice, don’t take it too seriously but still perform your job well. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t care about your job but you shouldn’t sweat the small stuff. We get too caught up in the little things that don’t really mean anything at all. Just keep an eye to your goal and everything else will follow.

4. Keep good company.
If you want to be successful, you have to choose your peers and associate with them. You have to spend time with like-minded people. You can invite colleagues who are top performers and don’t hang around office whiners. Others will only drag your spirits down.

5. Stop stressing, do something about it.
Be solutions oriented. You have to put your best feet forwards and always think of bad situation as a thing that needed some work from your end. You have to stop worrying and stressing yourself over it and go right to the solution.

6. Don’t surround yourself with worry and anxiety
For example, if co-workers gather in the break room to gossip and talk about job cuts, then don’t go there and worry with everyone else. Worrying tends to lead to more worrying, and that isn’t good for anyone.

7. Look at your mindset
Take a moment to realize that things won’t always go your way. If they did, life would be a straight road instead of one with hills and valleys, ups and downs, right? And it’s the hills and valleys that often make life so interesting.

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