A former boss told me this story to make a point: "If one person calls you a pig, ignore it. If a second person calls you a pig, you may want to take notice. If a third person calls you a pig, you better start oinkin', because you are a pig!"
Feedback from the environment is often consistent. Work hard on removing the core inner barriers that are stopping personal development. Changing jobs, managers, spouses, residence may sometimes be necessary to make a fresh start. Bring change to run towards something, not away from something.
Don't confuse an inner weakness with lack of strategic positioning. For example, if you are in a dead end job, look for a job with growth potential. Progress will take longer if you work on your inner weakness while staying in a dead end job. Taking a job with high growth potential, but not working on your inner barriers will expose you and cause equally deep frustration.
Only you can decide what has 'potential'. Potential in a job/manager/spouse/residence is relative to who you are, where you came from and where you are going. Work hard to create the luck needed to find a great job/manager/spouse/residence.
Couldn't agree more. Changes in external factors often doesn't bring the desired results as it is still the same you in new settings. Its not change of job/manager etc but a greater awareness of who you are that one should be striving for.
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