Rupal Y. Patel
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You've heard me say more than a few times how one of the most powerful things you can do to grow yourself and build your success is to capture your year. I've been doing that for almost a decade now and it has never failed to illuminate something important or improve me and my businesses in some fundamental way.
But one of the things I haven't talked as much about is the "auditing" part of capturing your year, aka the numbers. Now, before you run screaming, I'm not talking about over-complicated spreadsheets, but something simpler and more manageable: tracking your stats. Because numbers don't lie (unless of course you torture them until they confess what you want!). And if you want to measure your progress and keep yourself on track to achieve your goals, you need to get quantifying. Every year when I sit down to set my targets for the year ahead, of course there are intangible goals ("improve people's lives", "be a more present parent", etc), but almost every intangible has a tangible quality that can be counted or measured ("how many hours of their time have my clients saved by our working together", "how many evenings did I leave my phone out of sight so I could play with my daughters before bed", etc). You get where I'm going. So as you plan and refine and build your vision for what is to come this year and into your future, start counting. Not everything can be reduced to numbers, but many things can be measured in some way. And if you don't count, you may be deluding yourself about just how much - or not - you are doing. Numbers don't lie. So use them however you can to make sure you're not lying to yourself.
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At this time of year, so many of us are planning the year ahead, filling the next 365 days with goals and targets and ambitions and things-to-be-achieved. And while I am a huge proponent of planning and putting things on paper, I worry that for too many of us, our plans are rammed full of other people's agendas.
Now, someone may not actually be telling you what to do or aim for or target, but we all carry noise from external sources that influence what we think we should do: what we see others in our industry doing, what our friends are consumed with, what our family members suggest, what the books we read say about how to live/lead/succeed, what people our age care about, and, and, and... And while inspiration is wonderful, we can get so tangled in it that we silence what we know to be true for ourselves. From within ourselves. So as you plan your year ahead, think about where your "should's" are coming from, and interrogate whether they belong in your plans for your life. Tune in, turn inwards, and remember: just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. |
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