What’s more human than being human? Comparing ourselves to others. That’s something that we’ve all experienced at least once in our lives, right? But how can we stop this? Or better yet, how can we use it in our favor?
In today’s episode of The Frame of Mind Coaching™, our guest Menop Nguyen talks about benchmarking. Menop is CEO at Secured IT Solutions, a company that provides IT and cybersecurity services to organizations in the public and private sectors.
Menop talks about how she continuously compares herself to others and how that’s been affecting her performance at work. It’s completely normal for us as humans to compare ourselves, but we need to be careful. And when it comes to benchmarking, we need to understand how to leverage that.
One example I give to Menop is: Would you benchmark yourself against the greatest ballerina in the world? If not, why not? If you did that, would that mean that you “should” be a ballerina as well? If it’s not even part of your interests, then no, right? What you can do is understand what it is that you’re interested in, what you’re after and what you want in your life, and that way you could benchmark yourself BUT only as a method of improvement, not to compare and then feel bad about what you “should” be doing and aren’t.
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Read the episode’s transcript here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1252997/episodes/9592294
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