Are You Measuring Your Growth?

One of the best ways to thrive is through personal and career growth. Measuring personal and career goals gives you accountability on a daily basis to keep you progressing.

Measuring goals on a daily basis then makes you think of the time management required to invest in each goal. The goals allow you to navigate your personal and career progress. Devoting time to each keeps them in your mind both in the pursuit and the achievement.

What is the Significance of Progress Toward Worthwhile Goals?

Progress toward worthwhile goals is a good definition of living a fulfilling life. Don’t workers say they want meaningful and purposeful work? They also want the same said about their lives. Lives are fulfilling when they feel purposeful, meaningful, and define why you are here. Aren’t these the ultimate questions?

Everyone can set their own pace regardless of what is occurring around them. Workers and employers should be thriving together. An organization can thrive without the workers thriving. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, this was certainly the case. Unions had to make the case for workers, but a thriving worker usually means the organization is also thriving.

Who Is in Charge of Your Thriving?

Workers need to create a thriving mentality for themselves. They need to evaluate what is thriving to them. They need to understand what thriving entails. Then they need to create the strategies. Then execute.

I’ve covered in other blogs and podcasts how thriving usually entails growing. Growing entails engaging in worthwhile personal or career activities that include challenge and risk. Activities that lead to flow are at the top of the rewards list.

The way to ensure that activities are making progress toward worthwhile goals is to measure the progress. The accountability does not always have to be in numbers. You might make subjective summaries of how a relationship you are working on is improving. You are taking steps to help that along. Maybe the relationship is with your mate, your kids, your co-workers, or your employer. You know if you are making progress.

Measuring Progress is Like Using a Compass to Get Somewhere

There should be progress toward worthwhile goals that signify you are thriving. Health is a great example. How is your nutrition? Are you losing weight? How is your physical conditioning? Are you exercising longer and achieving more? You set out bike riding 5 miles and you want to ride 25. How is that progressing?

You want to contribute to something. You engage daily to learn more, create, share, and measure your impact. What does progress require? You schedule the time to engage. At the end of the day, you evaluate your progress. Progress is thriving because the activity is meaningful in your life.

Can you create 5 meaningful goals that in some form you can measure and evaluate? Daily activities and time scheduling will impact each of these goals. Now you are moving forward on a wave. Several areas of your life are moving forward. Reaching all the goals would be extremely rewarding and you would feel purposeful and fulfilling the reason you are here.

Maybe you want to be President of a company, have a great marriage, get your kids through college, save the woodchucks in Arkansas, climb Kilimanjaro, own a second home on a lake, write a book on your favorite topic, get increasingly healthy, and have a strong spiritual practice.

Eliminate Time Wasting Activities and Habits

Can you see why eliminating wasted time on non-meaningful activities during the day would be a good start? As a health coach, I often work with people first to start drinking more water and eliminating the bad foods and addictions in their diet. They immediately start feeling the progress.

Get started today. Create some worthwhile goals. Design the activities necessary to reach them. Create the time each day to work on them. Measure your progress at the end of the day. You are thriving and the brain is stimulating dopamine as your reward. You are feeling happy. You are saying, “today was a good day”.

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