How Do You Measure Striving?
If striving to improve = great, then how do you measure striving?
That’s what I’m wrestling with as I think through the measurable Key Results I can associate with the goal of “Raise great human beings who make the world a better place.”
If this were swimming or cycling or running, that seems like a problem that’s already solved. Cycling of these three probably has the best metric: watts. What matters less is your watts vs my watts. I’m guessing Lance Armstrong’s watts would be much higher than mine, but in spite of the wide range between people, I can use that measure of work to essentially compete against myself from one day to the next. It’s an objective measurement of effort going into the task at hand. That’s what I’m looking for here as a key result measurement.
So I need to measure effort, but the effort of what activity? We’ll tackle that tomorrow.
#goalsetting #greatness #dothework
P.S. If none of this makes any sense to you, then you should go read my post about setting life goals and about how to measure what “great” means in the first goal.
