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MEASURING YOUR PROGRESS

Written by: Sohan Singh

Article Overview: The physical and mental commitment you must make to achieve your goal is a prerequisite in the process of change. Once we have recognised that success is attainable, but may elude us if we do not try hard enough hard, we will set about achieving it with a more sober calculated approach The progress is normally slow, and we should focus on the positives.

MEASURING YOUR PROGRESS

If you are given to being over confident or too pessimistic to envisage any change, you need to change the attitude. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering attitude”. (William James) The physical and mental commitment you must make to achieve your goal is a prerequisite in the process of change. Once we have recognised that success is attainable, but may elude us if we do not try hard enough hard, we will set about achieving it with a more sober calculated approach. Your appraisal as to how far you have reached with regard to - where you want to be needs to be more realistic and pragmatic.
Measure your success by looking at the positive aspects of your achievement rather than in a fixed way. Let us expand on this theme so that it becomes clearer. If your goal is to become lighter, or decrease your waist size, instead of relying upon the weighing machine or the measuring tape only, look at the number of times you have done your workouts, or how many healthy meals you have had last week. Are your habits changing? Are you more health conscious? Are you committed to physical and mental self improvement?
If your goal was to read X number of chapters in a certain week to pass your exams, and instead you read something else to increase your knowledge, that is a positive aspect. If your goal was to mend your relationship with a family member or friend, and you are still talking with the other person with a view to understand his or her views, please pat your self on the back.
We need to look at the whole picture and then focus on the positives. Losing pounds every week, reducing your waist, doing well in studies, or repairing soured relationships take time. The progress is normally slow, and monitoring it narrowly is unlikely to be rewarding.

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