How often we all have been encountered with this feeling of helplessness in our career? But self belief is that one thing which has kept us motivated in this difficult situation. Personally I have seen many senior colleagues of mine being bombarded with extra ordinary expectations and their attempt to meet it. These desires for meeting expectations is an endless process if measurable KRAs are not set. To add more to their trouble are these High influencing negative stakeholders with imaginary thoughts. Its not bad to have expectations but how many of them can be truly turned into reality is a negotiation worth considering. Many people have lost themselves in meeting those expectations whereas many have excelled in this area. The reason is pretty simple: ‘perception’ and ‘ability’
PERCEPTION
This can be a good experience as well as a bad nightmare. If you hold a good perception about someone you may easily ignore his mistakes, on the contrary if you hold a bad perception about someone it is hard to digest. Once set it becomes very difficult to change a perception. But humans do not want to change it unless they see a high measurable difference made by them.
One of my colleague was very good in Domain but lacked appropriate technical understanding. People use to criticize her very badly. Even the junior under her mentorship is to make fun of her and she is to bear it with utter calmness. Sometimes I use to ask her why is she tolerating all this ? To my surprise she replied:
“Its not important to prove yourself in front of everyone. Your calibrate would be recognized by the right person at the right time. But never stop learning, be open to it. Life is a constant learning process and in learning you are about to encounter with hurdles. Try crossing these hurdles with calmness and positive attitude. It takes years to build relations but hardly minutes to break it”
I was completely taken away by her words. Now to my surprise she was hired as a Senior consultant in a BIG 4 firm and enjoying her life with the same spirit and enthusiasm. I truly salute her professionalism and patience. Irrespective of who says what you will be a winner. ‘WORTHLESS’ is a sick word with people, ignore it. why would you change for someone unless it is absolutely necessary. Be positive and wait for the best.
ABILITY
Every person is born with different distinguished skill sets. Research has proved that humans are adaptable to any situations. But The right time needed for a person to adapt to that particular area is never fully provided by a organization. People expect a lot from a person and sometimes evaluate them on wrong parameters which leads to ambiguous results. Only you know what you can do well. Try focus on it at the same time try to push your limits to the max to be adaptable for the situations because Life is all about Change. If you do not change people would forget you in months and the opportunities would be restricted. After all real fun lies in learning. Be positive, do not think too much about the what perception others hold about you do the best you could in any given situation.
No one is WORTHLESS here everyone is born to be a WINNER.
Happy reading!