Measure yourself against your own progress

Career Tip of the Week

Use your past and not an ideal as a yardstick to measure your careers. Most successful people are often the unhappiest because they constantly measure themselves against ideals they simply cannot live up to. A sense of inferiority creeps which is dangerous. All around you there are various ideals that you think you need to measure up to and that which you can never really do because no one can be the best at everything. There is always going to be someone better than you. Compare yourself only to the person you were before. Measure yourself against your own progress and forget about others.