You may be brilliant, but others think you aren’t. Why might this be? Well maybe they haven’t done the hard work for themselves and like to deflect from that by making others seem as if they haven’t. I think this is a common problem in organisations, people scrabble their way to the top on a lie and – on the whole – they do get found out eventually.
It’s the damage that they can do to themselves and others on the way that I think is at the essence of this Blog. Do you want to be one of those ‘scrabblers’ or do you want to take your time to ensure you are working on the right things, being the true you and working on your own personal development to ensure that you can be the best you can be authentically? People respect that.
There is a brilliant Desert Island discs from 30 May 2021 by Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, Chief Executive of Christian Aid, who shared some thoughts on life.
She is a deeply religious person who talks about God in a way that made sense to me. But the thing that struck me (and I suspect many others who listened to it) is how she describes herself as an ‘unfinished article’, especially in the eyes of God.
I accept that this is deep stuff, but I suspect that thinking you are or have to be the finished article before you can have a go at something big is probably kidding yourself. There are always things around the corner to bring you down to earth be that a nasty bully who goes unchecked, having a life changing event – redundancy, ill health, death, divorce, kids, a global pandemic – all of the above! How equipped are any of us for these things to happen when we’re busy focusing on just our careers?
It’s up to you how much time and effort you put into asking yourself and those who mean something to you the hard questions in the spirit of growth, kindness and love. The next time you or someone you know say that someone is ‘out of their depth’ – ask yourself this question – how are they feeling? If that was me what would I want from others?
