Lessons Learnt

On July 19, I completed five years in my organisation. I wanted to share what I learnt in these years.

• Focus on your bigger and long term goals: Disappointments as well as opportunities are designed to distract you. When you are disappointed, vent out the emotional side and weigh this distraction with your bigger goals. When you see an opportunity, check if it aligns with your long term goals or improvises the same.
  
• Interact with people: This might sound simple and obvious, but people around us teach us a lot. They give us tips on managing our computer and code, they demonstrate leadership that makes an impact, they make mistakes and show us the pitfalls and also offer a few lessons to survive a journey called life!!
  
• Nothing Personal!: I have seen people quitting jobs, projects and personal initiatives because they could not tolerate some people. I have observed that generally people are good at heart and come to work for feeding their family or passion. However, there are some individuals suffering from some social disorder or a disturbed past who just enjoy annoying others (passion, eh)!! Simply report, counsel or forgive such people. Giving up something you love for these people is definitely a bad idea.
  
• Never hesitate to teach someone: The thought of being indispensable forces specialists to stop sharing knowledge. Remember that enabling more people to become like yourself is more rewarding than keeping the knowledge to yourself, till it becomes obsolete. This also allows you to explore more opportunities (aligned to your bigger goals) and removes the barrier of waiting for the last moment to create backups.
  
• Reward Yourself: Turn your achievements into agents of self motivation. Most of our achievements are celebrated by related groups, however there are certain achievements that family, friends, leaders and co-workers fail to recognize. Don’t dismiss your hard work, recognize it with a treat or a gift!!

I am sure that if most of you take this advice seriously, it will help you in a long run