How To Measure Your Progress

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HOW TO MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS

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Are you actually making any progress? This is a question you’ll come to ask yourself at some point in your journey; maybe you already do ask it on a daily basis, and if so, you understand how this nagging question in the back of your head can drive you mad.

More annoyingly, the answer to the question can only be answered by you because what may seem like progress to someone else is just vanity metrics in your own mind with no meaning, so, how can you actually tell if you’re making progress?

Here are the methods to use that you won’t regret reading:

Firstly, don't compare yourself to others.

We get it; you need a point of comparison; you need something to compare yourself to in order to truly see whether where you are in life is good, bad, behind, or ahead, but comparing yourself to complete strangers on the internet is digging a hole for yourself that you won’t be able to climb out of.

So if you shouldn’t compare yourself to others you see online, who or what should you use as a comparison?

The answer is to only compare the current you to the past you, because that is how you see if you are actually making progress.

Therefore, you need to zoom out on the graph. If you feel like you’re not making progress, maybe you’re just looking at the graph wrong.

Like a stock graph, close up it may look like every day is a flatline, but when you look at it from a different perspective and instead of looking at a daily graph, you change it to a yearly one, you’ll be shocked by the amount you’ve grown.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Zoom out or create markers; for example, if you’re trying to grow a following online, take a picture every week or month so instead of looking at a similar follower count every day, you can see how you’ve grown thousands month on month.

TAKEAWAYS:

Progress is something that shouldn’t shock you, especially if you analyse it day by day.

It will seem like you’re crawling towards your goals instead of running towards them. In reality, there is no perfect growth metric, no amount you should be improving every day; therefore, take every day as a successful one and move on to the next.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

If your beliefs aren't cultivated with time, questioning, and experience they aren't your beliefs. They're someone else's.

You’ll find your passion through experience; if you haven’t had enough experience, you will struggle to find your passion because you don’t know what your choices are.

Don’t be in such a rush to find your passion or your purpose, because if you do rush it, it will end up being something that isn’t true and that you inevitably end up regretting.

Allow time and experience to help you discover what is meaningful to you.

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