How Do You Measure Success?

Where did you get your current metrics for success?

Right now you measure your success in every area of life by one or more metrics.

In your business, it may be income, revenue, profit, closed sales, calls made, inits sold, contracts signed, deals completed.

If you run a website or are active on social media, it may be impressions, visitors, page views, likes, followers, reposts, or conversions.

In your health it may be weight volume lifted or squatted, pounds lost or gained, minutes of cardio, miles walked, steps walked, or calories burned.

In your home life, perhaps you measure how many nights you made it home for dinner with your kids, vacation days taken, or time spent watching your kids.

This is not an exclusive list, obviously.

You get the point. In every area of life you have one or more metrics to measure your success.

Here are 3 questions to consider.

(1) What metrics are you currently using?

Review your metrics in each area. What are your metrics for success?

(2) Where did you learn to use these metrics?

You weren’t born with the impulse to use the metrics you us. You learned it, likely from one of three sources:

• Someone taught you this was the metric for success.
• Cultural conditioning.
• You allowed someone to define this metric for you.

(3) If you had to stop measuring your success with your current metrics,what metrics would you use instead?

This is may require some contemplation. What if you were forced to adopt new metrics?

Bonus: How might the new metrics change your experience?

We often don’t realize the way our decision of which metrics to use defines our experience. Perhaps your current metric causes you to strive more, or engage in unhealthy comparison. It may make you resistant to doing the work you need to do.

What might happen if you changed how you defined and measured success?

I’d love to hear your responses.