You have been at a place for many years and always lament that you are not getting noticed. At the same time, you also see some of your colleagues who have been with you for a long time get the boot. You wonder what is this and why you are not pushed to the exit.
Managers hunt for associates who are warming the seats with no real hunger to meet the timelines and not being creative to solve problems. It is not out of sympathy you did not get pushed to the exit but inadvertently you may have shown sparkles of brilliance or hard work at times and that have helped you in good stead.
Are you happy at what you are doing and feeling you are just surviving?
This is the question that comes to the minds of many and they are at cross roads where to go and what to do.
Survival doesn’t take you anywhere in your career and it makes you to blunt all your skills. One needs to be at the top of the game to remain relevant in the organisation. Sharpening the skills, adding more to your skill set and a lot of self motivation helps you to get noticed and that is the sure way to move up. If you are finding it hard to self-motivate and mend the flaws in your system do seek a good mentor to nudge you to be always sharp and to possess a mindset to seize opportunities.
The bottom line is never be content with surviving each day. It requires a huge commitment and consistently hard work to succeed.
Survival blunts the skills, Success sharpen them!
Without ‘U’, sUccess never happens.
THE PULSE by Sivakumar Gopal 