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Progress

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Every few weeks or so, if you have children, they get handed a progress report.
It tells you how they are doing in school, what their strengths are and if there are areas that need improvement.
Imagine if you could get a progress report every few weeks or so on how you are doing in life!
Wouldn’t that be helpful?

If I could order a special report on my progress, I would want to know how I was doing with my relationships specifically with my spouse, my kids, my extended family, my workmates, my friends, my neighbours and my acquaintances.

Then I would want to know how I was doing with my job.
How was I progressing in my career and how could I improve.
Some jobs do check-ins and annual assessments but imagine knowing more often.
That would be so helpful for me to receive that feedback.

After that, I would want to know how I was doing with my goals.
How was I hitting my financial goals?
How was I hitting my personal development goals?
How was I hitting my health goals and so on…?
You get the point.

This would be so helpful to receive a progress report like the children do.
So I was brainstorming with my mentor and he suggested I create such a progress report and he would gladly fill it in as often as I needed it.
What a thought!!
So we did and it has been an incredible asset to me to see how I am progressing through those things I hold very important in my life.
Those things I want to improve upon.
Those things I have hit spot on and now I can create new goals and targets.

Progress always seemed scary to me in the past because to progress, you must change and I was like a lot of people, afraid of change, happy with status quo but I really wasn’t. My fear of change, my fear of progressing superseded my desire for change.

Now I can add my progress report to my overall life map.
Now I have those frequent check-ins to review, which helps me tweak my behaviour. Now I know I will hit my goals faster and more efficiently because I am receiving that feedback that is helping me progress to the next level.

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