The mid-year review
In most corporations, there's a practice of goal setting for the year and then around the end of June or beginning of July, a mid-year review is held. It's a time to assess if an employee, based on their goals for the year, is on track or lagging behind or performing above expectations. The supervisors usually have their own views on the employees under their supervision. However, they like to have a one-to-one session with their employee where the employee is also given a chance to give his perspective on how things are going. For example, if the employee is lagging behind because of circumstances beyond their control, they can explain that and the supervisor can take that into account.
Recently, I had my mid-year review at work. However, in this blog, I'm not going to discuss how it went. Instead, I decided to apply the same practice to the goals I set out for myself in 2018 and perform a self-mid-year performance review.
Around every new year's eve, I write a blog talking about how the past year went and the things I'm planning to do in the upcoming year. In my last blog of 2017, I talked about 3 goals I had set up for myself.
This goal was about giving it my 100% at work. I honestly believe I can perform better in this area. I was well on track with this until around mid-May. Since then, I've lost some steam in my engine. I really need to start pushing the pedal harder again. Fortunately, since I've managed to find this issue quickly, the gap between my expectations of performance and my actual performance is within a manageable limit. I'm going to be plugging this gap and go all in over the next half of the year.
Verdict: Almost on track
This year, I played for Simon Tenisz Club in the Spring Championship and went undefeated in singles for the entire league. Unfortunately, I've developed an injury in my elbow and have been unable to get on the court for over a month now. This is quite a testing period for me. When I was playing, I had the motivation to eat healthier, work on my fitness, and have an overall healthier lifestyle. I was waking up early, going to bed on time and getting a good night's sleep. A positive side-effect of this had been the fact that I felt more energetic all day and was a lot more efficient overall.
Sadly, I've been less and less motivated to care. From working out 6 days a week, I've gone down to running 2-3 times a week. Alcohol consumption has risen (I'm too embarrassed to even quote the stats here right now) and my "diet" has become non-existent.
While I have been on track for the first half of the year, things aren't looking too good anymore. With one arm unable to lift any heavy load, there aren't many options that are available either. I need to look at it from a fresh perspective and find a learning curve to ride on that keeps me motivated.
Verdict: On track, but losing pace
Here's a list of places I've already been to:
Recently, I had my mid-year review at work. However, in this blog, I'm not going to discuss how it went. Instead, I decided to apply the same practice to the goals I set out for myself in 2018 and perform a self-mid-year performance review.
The Goals
Around every new year's eve, I write a blog talking about how the past year went and the things I'm planning to do in the upcoming year. In my last blog of 2017, I talked about 3 goals I had set up for myself.
Work Hard
This goal was about giving it my 100% at work. I honestly believe I can perform better in this area. I was well on track with this until around mid-May. Since then, I've lost some steam in my engine. I really need to start pushing the pedal harder again. Fortunately, since I've managed to find this issue quickly, the gap between my expectations of performance and my actual performance is within a manageable limit. I'm going to be plugging this gap and go all in over the next half of the year.
Verdict: Almost on track
Play Harder
This year, I played for Simon Tenisz Club in the Spring Championship and went undefeated in singles for the entire league. Unfortunately, I've developed an injury in my elbow and have been unable to get on the court for over a month now. This is quite a testing period for me. When I was playing, I had the motivation to eat healthier, work on my fitness, and have an overall healthier lifestyle. I was waking up early, going to bed on time and getting a good night's sleep. A positive side-effect of this had been the fact that I felt more energetic all day and was a lot more efficient overall.
Sadly, I've been less and less motivated to care. From working out 6 days a week, I've gone down to running 2-3 times a week. Alcohol consumption has risen (I'm too embarrassed to even quote the stats here right now) and my "diet" has become non-existent.
While I have been on track for the first half of the year, things aren't looking too good anymore. With one arm unable to lift any heavy load, there aren't many options that are available either. I need to look at it from a fresh perspective and find a learning curve to ride on that keeps me motivated.
Verdict: On track, but losing pace
Soak in some sights
Here's a list of places I've already been to:
- Ljubljana and Lake Bled, Slovenia
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Belgrade, Serbia
- Berlin, Germany
Except for Brno, all others were part of my initial plans for this year. Brno has been a random addition and I'm glad I made that trip. I got a nice blog out of that trip too. Only one place remains from the list of places I planned to visit in 2018. However, I have about 13 vacation days still remaining for the year. Hence, I've added a few more. So here's the list of places I'll try and visit before the year ends:
- Greece, Athens (remaining from the original list of places)
- Portugal and southern Spain
- Romania - Cluj Napoca, Bucharest, Timisoara
Verdict: Performing beyond expectations
Traveling has been the one department in which I've managed to perform beyond my expectations till now. I was performing well in other departments as well but the injury has slacked me down in ways beyond just tennis. Hopefully, I'll soon find a way to get back up and get things back on track.
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