How To Stop Measuring Yourself By Comparing with Others

You're reading How To Stop Measuring Yourself By Comparing with Others, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Do you think a hike in your salary would make you happy? You believe so, don't you? But hold on to that thought. There is more to it than just the percentage increase. For 2 years, I observed a team of people. They exhibited a peculiar behavior after annual hike announcements. During the first year, the market was not performing well. As a result, the hike percentages were low for all the team members. People were disappointed, no doubt, but no one complained as such. The very next year, the market had picked up. The whole team got a fantastic increase in salary. Did the entire team enjoy and rejoice? You'd expect that, but what happened was the opposite. The team members had more concerns than the previous year. The worry wasn't that the numbers weren't good enough. What bothered people was somebody else on the team received a higher figure than they did. The concern wasn't expressed only by a couple of people. A majority of people felt the same. Some expressed it, and some didn't. That's when I realized, any performance measurement is always relative and based on the comparison. I shook my head in disbelief and told myself, "that's absurd, I would never do the same." Or so I thought. 6 months after starting my blog, I wanted to know ...
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