Grow at your own pace
For more than three years, a short letter went out to everyone at Walkover every Friday. It wasn't about targets or releases. It was about the person doing the work. Read together, one idea keeps coming back: growth is personal, it doesn't run on anyone else's clock, and it starts with being honest with yourself.
"Am I good enough?"
One letter opened with the question most of us never say out loud:
This is one question that plagues even the most successful of people.
The letter's answer wasn't to work harder. It pointed out that the usual ways we cope (numbing it, staying busy, blaming others) only give temporary relief. Then it suggested something smaller and harder:
Invest 10 minutes in quiet time with yourself reflecting on this question.
Notice your self-talk. When the "not enough" voice shows up, tell it you've got this. Self-awareness first, everything else after.
सबकी चाल अलग है
Someone you know is ahead of you. Someone else is behind you. Neither fact makes your progress bigger or smaller. As one letter put it, everyone is crawling, walking or running at their own pace:
सपने पुरे करना आसान है, मुश्किल है उन पर रोज़ मेहनत करना
The harder part, the letter added, is separating your own dreams from the dreams other people have for you. Comparison is easy. Working on your own thing every day is the real job.
Pressure is raw material
Society, work, peers, family and our own expectations all add pressure. The letters didn't pretend it away. They asked what to do with it:
We wouldn't get wine if grapes were not pressed. There'd be no perfume if flowers were not crushed. Diamonds would still be coal if it weren't for pressure.
And then the practical part:
There's always pressure, but learn to walk away from some (peer/society) and change some into motivation (work/self).
Think for yourself
A lot of what we do, we do because other people are doing it. One letter called this out gently. It didn't say following others is wrong; it asked you to know why you're doing it:
Just know what are the reasons for you following them.
Another made the same point with a smile: copying takes brains too. क्योंकि नक़ल में भी अकल लगती है.
Let go of what holds you back
It's true, our past shapes us. … what you hold on to makes you who you are.
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. Change happens to everyone. Transformation is different:
Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice.
Why this matters at work
The last letter of 2024 said it most directly:
At Walkover, it has never been only about how you grow at work, it's about how you grow in life.
Don't worry about what's coming next, work on getting better every day.
That's what growing at your own pace means here: no race against the person at the next desk, just a little better than yesterday, every day.
Drawn from 8 Friday letters: Am I good enough? · सबकी चाल अलग है · No pressure, No diamonds · If other people do it, that means it's right. Right? · Why are we such poor imitators? · The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone! · Your transformation is your key to success · Cheers to new learnings, new mistakes, new success