Get Off the Treadmill and Onto the Trail

Define success on your own terms and not on someone else’s

 
Many workplaces are set up for those who want to achieve. You get an entry-level job when you graduate. Then, after a couple of years, you are up for your first promotion. Then, after another few years, you aim for the next one. Maybe you join the management track and start learning to lead people. You are rewarded for having a positive impact in the organization, and your compensation grows as your skills and experience expand. Over the course of a decade, and then another, you climb the ladder one rung at a time.

Conventional wisdom holds that a good career is like being on a treadmill: You track your exercise and quantify how much progress you are making using the numbers on the console. You have set programs, goals, and outcomes that you want to achieve, and as your fitness improves, you continue to move up the levels. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with that. But what if there was another way?

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