Usually, the community will refer a golden age for productive people is between 28 to 32 years old. If that's true, then I will be there in a few months. The question is, do we already perform at our peak performance right now? Or we are currently wasting our time here and now.

From a personal standpoint of view, we might be nowhere near our full performance right now, either due to some sour mistook decisions, bad environment, missing goals, etc. and some of us might already get tired of these unimproved conditions. So what to do?

Like the Latin quote says, time waits for no one. We are the ones who decide how we lost each of our moments every day. Even while we decide to do nothing at all. It might have useful to look back and see what have we done before and reflect on any evaluation points that we can admit to ourselves, but don't you think, to decide on what would you do tomorrow should come first after all?

We can use all the excuses we could find for our laziness or lack of interest to do something meaningful and stay in our so-called comfort zone, but at the end of the day, for whom do we live? Even for those who are alone without any close relatives or friends, you still have yourselves right? Or at least, as a great creation that created by our Great Creator, would we want to make Him proud?

From what I see in a human being, those who are in a pinch can do anything to overcome any disadvantage and break free from any wall, like when you containing water in plastic and squeeze it to the maximum pressure, by the law of physics, water will break through the plastics no matter how strong it is. Well, human beings mostly composed of water, is it? At least we can have some of that trait incorporated into our lives, do we?

If we find that our work is too unproductive, too boring to do, and we are not producing anything good out of it, why don't we just take a look after it once again and ask, what should we do to change this condition? It's nothing to lose as we never like that condition anyway.

No, I'm not pushing anyone here to be an entrepreneur. Those who are lack of resilience will get crushed in the stream anyway. No need to take that extreme road if you know that you can't turn back 180 degrees, sometimes a small change can deliver you to a completely different scenery rather than spending too much effort in a large one. Believe me, even if we just wake up 1 hour earlier, that can do a great favor for our future, or in an extreme way, even your MISTAKES can make you rich! Just ask Percy Spencer's bad experience that turned out to be the first microwave oven or Spencer Silver on how he made Post-It notes when he initially plans to make a stronger adhesive but mistakenly creates a weaker adhesive instead. We never know where God carries us anyway. Just do our best and when the chance comes in, you'll know what to do.

Everything starts as nothing. Some successful business starts out from a small work, In 1901, 21-year-old William S. Harley drew up plans to create a small engine just to power his bicycle in a small wooden shed anyway, no "big dream" there.
One small positive change in your life can do wonder. If you think one is not enough, find another small one to change, too much change at a time can do a disaster though, so small & positive one is always welcomed. Small is big (some say). Remember, Time waits for no one. Start now & be happier at life! (CBA)

Mr. A, 37 years old, worked for XYZ enterprise for 15 years, being a manager for 10 years. If we see that profile, surely in nowadays work environment, a Talent Management/Human Resource Management can consider that a great loyalty. Really?

Some says, loyalty is devotion and faithfulness to a cause, country, group, or person. In this case, a company / enterprise. Then, what is a devotion? Merriam-Webster define devotion as "the use of time, money, energy, etc., for a particular purpose", and faithfulness will defined as "steadfast in affection or allegiance (loyalty)".

When we see someone worked for a longest time ever for a company, it doesn't automatically translate into a loyalty. That's what've been bugging me for long time. Well, we often see that a company give rewards for those with great loyalty towards them based on the employee's service period, and it's interesting to see why do they decide on that.

If a devotion is translated into using their time, money, energy, etc., do working 15 years in a company can be automatically considered into using their time? I don't think so. Some of those who are categorized as a loyal employee jsut being there because they don't know where to go, or too engulfed with their comfort zone, with no one disturbing their inner peace. Have you notice that? No creativity, no challenge, no risk taking, no exploration, and no more passion to achieve something higher. Just working for annual targets, with the same approach, with the same routinity, and with the same excuse when things are going wrong.

In my opinion, loyalty can't be evaluate based on service period only. Surely that is some basis for that, but long service period only not enough to prove a loyalty. When you stop challenging a new limit for the company, then you lost your loyalty to the company, along with your faith for yourself that you can do much better and elevate to the next level.

Being a manager for 10 years or more doesn't sound any good for me. Unless your portfolio increase and varied to some extent, I can say that you are stagnated. How can someone achieve a different achievement when all one's do is "business as usual"?

Even someone who only work for a year, can be considered to have a great loyalty if one's do really dedicated all of one's might, resource, and intellectual to do something meaningful to the company, as the company reward him well, the loyalty can turned into a great asset definitely.

Of course, you can argue that loyalty should be tested over time, like a good sword has to be tempered a lot to be strong enough. I agree, the point I'm making here is, don't consider a sword that have been tempered half-baked for a long time in a same category with other that have been tempered with all perfection in slightly shorter time. Even a mass produced knife would perform better than the former one.

It might unjust to observe a loyalty just from an employee side, we must not forget that a loyalty is created by employers, not something that you take for granted. If employer took a good care for their employees, they will reap the benefits of loyalty. I know that some might try to take advantage over that and switch over to competitor for another small payrise, but if you able to plant a loyalty seed in the right employee, why should you worried over those small fry?

Nevertheless, loyalty is something that is getting harder and harder to find in this gen-x and soon to be in optimum productivity ~ millenial generation. As a gen-x, I too faced with lots of peer pressure when it comes to loyalty. Those millenials are even more likely to job-hop than our gen-x generations. It surely will become a great challenge for any companies in the next 5 years on how to retain your best employees. That's where a loyalty factor become super important, for company and employees altogether.

Can you find your company's loyalty factor? (CBA)