How To Measure Personal Development?
- Michael Davis
Step 5: Be Your Biggest Motivator – Supporting and encouraging your own progress is the final step in understanding how to gauge your own personal development. You should teach yourself positive affirmations that will assist you in maintaining your motivation and encouragement, and you should remind yourself of these affirmations on a regular basis.
Any endeavor that calls for some form of change will invariably be met with obstacles, and sometimes even failure. However, this is an inevitable consequence of the natural process. If you fall behind or fail a milestone, you should never be hard on yourself about it. Rather of viewing it as a setback, think of it as a valuable educational opportunity that may help you go forward.
The most important step in determining how much you have improved is to first recognize your flaws, then come to terms with them, and then work to improve upon them. Therefore, it is imperative that you are honest with yourself rather than creating excuses or dismissing the challenges that you face.
How do you measure a personal goal?
How to Measure your Personal Growth
Some goals are straightforward to evaluate, such as losing weight or improving one’s fitness (in terms of the amount of time it takes to run a certain distance, the weight lifted or the number of repetitions, etc.), while others are not. You will need to establish your own measuring system in order to be able to quantify objectives that are focused on increasing the ‘quality’ of your life, such as enhancing your relationships with your children.
- This will allow you to monitor your progress in relation to the goals you have set for yourself.
- The following are some examples of methods that may be used to measure non-quantifiable goals: Establish a connection between the progress you’ve made toward your goals and a metric that’s easy to measure, such as time.
You might be able to gauge your progress toward your goal by keeping track of the amount of hours per week that you dedicate to working toward it. One metric that might be used to evaluate progress toward a goal that emphasizes strengthening family ties is the quantity of high-quality time per day that is spent with the children.
- Rating or ranking system based on your assessment or ‘feeling’ of goal progress – You may be able to establish a ranking system based on how you actually feel regarding the goal, with a ranking of 5 representing’very happy/satisfied’ and a ranking of 1 representing’very unhappy/dissatisfied’.
- This can be done by saying that a ranking of 5 represents’very happy/satisfied’ and a ranking of 1 represents’very unhappy You could even be able to make them more particular to your objective by giving them a ranking, such as “I feel highly energetic and healthy” for a score of 5 and “I feel very sluggish and sad” for a ranking of 1 in the context of a goal related to health.
However you decide to measure your goals, the measurement needs to be based in reality and it needs to be something that you personally see as a measure of progress. For instance, you may find it more useful to measure the progress of your goals on our example of family relationships using a defined ranking system (based on ‘feeling’) rather than the amount of time spent per day with the children, given that spending time with the children can only improve relationships if it is quality time.