THREE KEYS TO MAKING PROGRESS ON YOUR GROWTH GOALS written by Jon Isaacson , The DYOJO Podcast
There is so much pressure to live your best life , 10x your efforts and strike while the iron is hot . With so much information coming at us as professionals it can be difficult to determine whether we are doing the right thing to propel our career forward . Moving forward isn ’ t the only measure of success . It is possible to be moving forward in an endless circle that goes nowhere .
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS FOR GROWTH
How then do we ensure that our personal development and professional efforts are not being wasted ? We share three keys to ensure that you are not wasting your time . Professionals , leaders , and managers can share these steps to help review whether our will to succeed is leading down the path of achievement .
STEP 1 : MEASURE YOUR GROWTH EFFORTS CORRECTLY
Recognize that moving forward isn ’ t the only measure of progress . Like being lost in the woods , we can be walking with great effort and purpose and yet find that we have succeeded only in arriving at the spot from which we started . How terrible is it to realize we ’ ve spent all this time only to discover that we moved forward in a large and arduous circle . Our setback wasn ’ t for lack of effort , but for lack of skill and commitment to identifying a reference point . In business , we need benchmarks that track our progress .
Start this directed effort by answering , what is my vision ?
Where do I want to be ? Who do I need to be to get there ? What do I need to do in order to move in that direction ? In her book , Unqualified Success , Rachel Stewart reminds us that the key to success starts with understanding that , “ The only qualification to get better : being willing to suck when you start .”
STEP 2 : IDENTIFY REFERENCE POINTS FOR GROWTH PROGRESS
We recently , and successfully , trained our first adolescent driver in our immediate family . The one thing that we continued to stress , whether they were positioning themselves in their lane or preparing to reverse into a parking spot , was that you have to identify a reference point . If we are going to reach our
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