Are You Looking at the Right Metrics?
Outcomes are a LAGGING indicator of how well you’re doing.
Things like…
Your role, title, and responsibilities at work
Your weight
Your net worth
Your relationship status
Your health & fitness levels
How many items you have checked off (or not) on your to do list
These “concrete metrics” are the first place your brain is going to want to look when you assess how things are going.
And these are the WRONG place to look.
These are telling a stale, old story of your PAST. Not your future.
Processes are a LEADING indicator of how well you’re doing.
Things like…
How you approach problems at work and make decisions in your career
Your eating habits
Your spending and investing habits
Your dating process and the way you invest in and maintain your relationships
Your gym routine
How you plan and allocate your time
These are the real measure of where things stand.
These are the seeds you’re planting, which will one day grow into the fruit you can harvest.
These are the tea leaves from which you can divine your future.
So many people look at the current state of their outcomes and feel discouraged.
“I’m at the wrong job. I weigh the wrong amount. I didn’t do enough today. I’m so behind.”
And they feel as if they have so far to go before they’re “back on track.”
But this is the wrong way of looking at it. You can get on track right now, today.
All you need is one tweak to your process. ONE thing that you do differently.
That one thing will INSTANTLY change your trajectory and yield different fruit in the future, no matter how small it is.
(In fact — especially if it’s small and easy, because that makes it that much easier to sustain.)
And for so many people — you’re already on the right track. Your seeds just haven’t sprouted yet. You don’t need more effort or any adjustments. All you need is more time.
Don’t let yourself get distracted by the wrong metrics.
Outcomes are flashy and visible. Processes are mundane and invisible.
Keep your eye on the unsexy stuff that actually matters.
And if you’re not sure if you’ve got the right process…
Or you keep making plans and not sticking to them…
Or you’ve just got a vague, persistent feeling that the life your processes are creating for you isn’t actually the life you want…
Then come talk to me, and let’s get you on the right track, right now.
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