Measure of Success

Yesterday I received an email from my earlier team member. He was not happy the way his career was progressing. I felt that he was doing amazingly well and adding lot of value to himself in the roles that he had been doing till now. But he was measuring his success by the progress made by his peers in terms of movement in the organization hierarchy and getting worried with the same.

How many times all of us face this dilemma? Almost all of us go through this kind of feeling especially during the appraisal months of March and April.

I think one needs to really find what one wants to do in life and gauge the success with reference to it and not by the achievement of the peers etc.

What matters the most is what we wanted to achieve in life as a goal rather than the sign posts that we pass through during our journey to reach our destination.