Calibrate your real potential and never cease to explore it

Frenzied work schedules, unending household chores, choking deadlines, biased management decisions followed by a series of bad days at work were all that took me to realise the influence of ‘office politics’ on our lives. It can be draining and emotionally devastating for novices and the seasoned equally. Though you’ve pledged to respect and be polite towards your new colleagues, with time, you become a witness to your work friends turning into foes due to professional reasons. Ironically, it stings you, irrespective of your tenure in the game; whether you are a fresher or the one advancing the rungs of the corporate ladder.

Mobile phones teach us how to moderate our lives like its various operational modes: Discreet, outdoor, silent and general, in accordance with the situation at work or home. As you gain experience, you learn how equations at work change way too often. Every small fish makes efforts to go on the ‘silent mode’ while confronting the bigger fish.

Such practices influence the mute spectators more than the ones involved because they are the ones who eventually get subjected as a result. We see many who start valuing flattery above hard work, forgetting that nothing can replace labour. People may have their own reasons to be on ‘good terms’ with their bosses, but, at no cost should these reasons allow them to compromise on their virtues. As is wisely said, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going’, one should calibrate her real potential and never cease to explore it.