I was nominating myself and some team members to the most prestigious award of the year in the company on the very last date of submission. I thought our team has done very well for the business and we have good attitude too towards the culture change.

Few weeks later, the announcement was made. None of us won any awards!

I was silent when I saw the announcement email, thinking why we didn’t win any of them.

I checked why others got the awards and made self evaluation.

Indeed, there is always room for improvement.

But then I was thinking, is this really the most prestigious award we should achieve?

Evaluating myself,

Our biggest enemy is ourselves.

In this one year, I manage to beat my own ego. I led the team to the business success and culture change despite of the title and individual contributors role.

I manage to overcome humiliation treatment from people surround me, without fighting back. Instead, brought them together, for same mission.

I have gained lots of improvement and development towards my skills, EQ, attitude, leadership and that made the greatest champion of myself.

And even none of people see the physical award, I did get the greatest one ❤️