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GOLD MEDAL SUCCESS:
3 Benefits & 2 Ways to Measure Your
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September 2, 2008
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"I always thought
it would be neat to make the Olympic team."
~Michael Phelps
Two weeks ago, Michael Phelps captured the imagination of Americans young and old. It is quite an accomplishment for any person to win a gold medal in the Olympics, let alone 8 in one Olympics and 14 overall. Michael accomplished both!
If you are an athlete, making the Olympic team, winning a medal, and winning a gold medal are all incremental measurements of success.
Here are 3 benefits of measuring success:
- It keeps you on track towards reaching your goals. Whatever your goal is … to make the Olympic team or to make a profit with your home based business … having a measurement of your success will keep you focused. Let’s take the latter. By comparing your expenses and income on the last day of each month, you have an accurate assessment of how well you are doing. You get accurate data to determine what is working and what is not.
- It tells you when you have reached your goals. While this may sound silly, having a signpost has many advantages. It gives you the right to brag! You can add this to your list of accomplishments. It gives you an opportunity to take a well-deserved break and celebrate. Go to a movie. Order out. Treat yourself to a massage.
- It holds you accountable. In the $300 billion grant/fundraising industry in which I’ve carved a niche, funders give a lot of money to individuals and charities that are accountable for the money they receive. It’s absolutely necessary when public dollars are being used. On an individual basis, you may not know this but holding yourself accountable for reaching your goals builds your self-confidence and makes you more trust-worthy. If you believe that more resources are bestowed on those who are good stewards, you are likely to make even more money, too!
Here are 2 ways to measure success:
Make sure the process of measuring is “fun”.
Make sure the process of measuring is “natural” (part of your everyday routine).
For example, a group goal of mine is to “succeed, thrive and be balanced while working at home.” Let’s see how measuring can be fun and natural in these three areas:
· Succeed – To succeed is to grow and show incremental improvement. My grandfather taught me this in a great family tradition. He used to notch the height of all his grandchildren in the many doorways of his home on their birthdays. Looking at your measurements over time can reveal patterns. Comparing notches, I noticed that I had grown at least 6 inches each year between 10 and 13 years of age.
Likewise, students in grants/fundraising keep “success logs” (download yours free here). Success logs show improvement in “success rates,” “amount funded” and “time spent.” In 2002, I got this idea after I created a “success log” for myself and noticed that I had a 91+% success rate. At the time, I had gotten 42 out of 46 proposals funded and over $5.3 million.
Success logs reveal patterns, too. Because of my success, I now show students specifically how they can increase their success rate by at least 25%, increase the amount funded, and reduce the time spent by at least 200%.
· Thrive – One of my “thrive” goals is to enjoy vibrant health 24-7. A fun way to measure this is to ask how alive you feel. I make this a natural part of my daily routine by including the measurement as a fun activity at the beginning of every teleseminar or MasterMind group I lead. Up front, I ask everyone (myself included) to measure their aliveness on a scale of 1-to-10 (1 being the “lowest” and 10 being the “highest”).
· Be balanced – One of my “be balanced” goals is to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Recently, I had lunch with a parent who shared a fun way she measures a similar goal with her 2-year-old. She told me of a way she learned to get her son to eat a balanced meal, not just desert. What she did was tell her son that he could have the same percentage of desert that he ate in the main course. If he ate 25% of his meal, he could have 25% of his desert, 50% of meal … 50% of desert, and so forth. A natural part of their meals is that the child reports the percentage eaten before giving him his desert.
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Ask yourself …
What are your goals?
What fun way could you measure you success in reaching your goals?
What natural (easy and regular) ways could you use to measure your success?
Until next time,
Phil and Megan
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