A personal Story from Switzerland
By Alexander Matthey

Have you already checked back on your professional and personal plans you have built after graduation? Have you compared the then dreams to today’s reality?

Close your eyes for 30 seconds and do some mental, honest, personal comparison.

So, how do you score in all honesty?

How about a mental check on some school mates, colleagues or even family you were close to then and now? What about their score?

If you are like me, neither young, nor old, read on, maybe something is of use for you too. (By the way I share with you a friend’s definition of young and old: I’m in the middle, everybody who is younger by 10 years or more is young. Everybody who is older by 10 or more is old. OK, so much for basic terminology.)

If you are recently out of school, read more attentively, you never know what may stick as learning. For once at school a teacher of mine told us: everybody learns from their own experience, but the intelligent learn from those of others.

And if you are of fully mature age, spend some time to see how much better you did, savour the moments you can criticize the “juvenile “ to your thoughts of mine. And drop me a line (a.matthey@3pmexperts.com) with observations.

I do every so often this retrospective check back, without making a big fuss about it. And half way through my active life, 25 years after obtaining my university diploma, I open up my thoughts to you: Did I realize my dreams? Did I outsmart myself - of me at 22? Being “married” to the countless facets of Project Management and spending 12-14 hours per day in their company, is the realisation of dreams? And does professional dreams realisation rhyme with happiness?

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