The 365 Commitment

Day 179 – Measuring Success?

If you have ambitions in your life, objectives you are setting to accomplish, is it important to have a way to measure if you are having success or not?

I think the answer is yes. However, that is not a comfortable answer. I am not sure I am measuring success anywhere in my personal life. In fact, I only vaguely and passively measure success in my  business life. Should I change that? How can I come up with measures that are more meaningful, more relevant, more of a reflection of reality?

I have a feeling that this is the hard part of goal setting and where most people tend to fail. We do not naturally like accountability and we also can never find just one measure that can indicate success. They never completely tell the story, rather we need to have several. When multiple measures are compounded together we can begin to see a clear picture of success.

Figuring out how to measure the health of your efforts is probably directly related to your ability to accomplish what you are striving for.  To go even a step further – if you cannot create key results to measure an objective then you probably do not really have an objective at all. To throw out to the universe that I am going to make more money this year, and yet have no way to measure your result is as ridiculous as saying that I am going to get in shape this year and having nothing to back it up.

The hard part is the measure. How are you going to grade yourself?  If you want to achieve some major objective in your life, then you better spend the time considering the key results (you will need more then one) and how you are going to measure them as part of setting that objective. If you do not – then you will never accomplish the objective.

Guy Reams (179)
365 Member

 

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