You must have heard this phrase form your friends, colleagues or candidates, while explaining the reasons of why they have don’t have success.
I am for sure used these excuses during early days of my career, before I realized my mistake.
So what are the excuses I am talking about?
Well, here they are
- My company is not good. yeah sure, is my response to this. I really don’t understand this excuse, after all how a company is related to the program I write.
- My project is not good. This basically means that what I am doing, is not what I want to do. Sometimes in professional life it is possible to get stuck in projects that we don’t like, but I have always believed that even a boring project can be made challenging and all exciting by simply setting some higher standards for yourself in the project.
- My clients are not good. This one I understand and relate to, but looking back I can say, I have learned maximum while I was working with these not so good clients. Their near impossible demands(at that time) helped me stretch my ability, which might not been possible with if I had only worked for good clients.
- My Seniors are not good. When someone say this to me, I always ask them why should they. After all sooner or later you will be competing for their positions.
- My Team mates are not good. They never are, accept this fact and consider your self very lucky if you get good team mates. Again the reason is quite simple, only one among your team can become next team leader. I am sure you want to be that person, but so does other members of your team. Now you tell me, will you help your team mate in his quest to become next team leader? understand what I am trying to say.
Now to answer the inevitable question that these people ask after giving these excuses