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A quick & easy way to start reviewing

We all know that we’re meant to review but how many of us are doing it? It really is true that there is power in the review. It helps you to stay on track with your goals and makes it easy to identify times when you may need to update or change your goal or plan. It also helps in monitoring your workload. If you have many unfinished tasks at the end of the week, that’s a good sign you’re trying to do too much! So how can we incorporate review into our work cycle without it taking up too much time and energy? ie. How can we make it easy for us, so we’ll do it?:)

Here’s how to begin and maintain a review process in your business:

1. Decide on what you need to monitor in your business. It goes without saying that cashflow and other financials will be on this list, but what other metrics or goals do you need to keep track of? It could be reviewing the progress on your current goal, reviewing your social media stats or your networking outcomes for the week. Decide on the most important outcomes you need to keep track of and make a list.

2. Decide how often you need to monitor these outcomes. If you’re not sure, start with weekly and you can adjust it from there.

3. Create a simple review checklist. Having a checklist that you can easily access, will help you when it comes time to review. You don’t need to remember each time what you have to review, just follow your checklist. There are plenty of online options for this but Dropbox paper is one of my favourites. For each area of your business you want to review, ask yourself these questions:
Did I achieve the outcomes for this business area this week?
What is working in this area of my business?
What is not working on this area of my business?
What else did I learn this week about working on this area of my business?
What changes will I make for this to work better? 

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Improve your results with tracking

My favourite personal development tool is very powerful tool. It is also simple and easy-to-use. This tool can keep me on track more consistently than anything else that I have ever tried. I have created new habits and maintained them because of this wonderful tool. I think you too will love this tool when you start to use it.

What am talking about? I’m talking about tracking. My favourite personal development tool is tracking. It literally change my life and can do the same for you. If you want to create consistency, maintain changes and feel a sense of accomplishment, then you need to use tracking. Here’s how to get started:

1. Make a list of the tasks and behaviours that are pivotal to your success both personally and professionally.

Examples: exercise, posting your blog, making sales calls, eating salad, getting a new client etc.

2. Now decide on your Top 3 tasks and behaviours from that list. These are the absolute most important things that need to be done consistently for you to be at your best.

3. Using the Tracking Table I’ve supplied here, enter your top 3 in the “behaviours & actions” column. For each task or behaviour, decide on your goal for the week. ie. how many times do you want to complete this task or behaviour? Record the number in the goal column. If you want to set a specific day for each of your top 3, enter a “o” for each of those days to allocate the day you plan to that item. This is optional, you don’t have to set a day if you don’t want to.

 Example:

BEHAVIOUR/ ACTION
M  
T  
W  
TH 
F  
S  
SU 
TOTAL 
GOAL 
NET 
mindset management
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/
/
/
/
/
6
7
-1
exercise
/
/
/
/
4
4
0
sales calls
/
/
/
/
/
5
7
-2
write blog post
/
/
/
3
3
0

4. Track your progress: View the table each day and place a tick or a cross in column for that day based on whether you completed that item or not.

5. At the end of the week, review your week’s worth of tracking and tally your ticks in “actual” column for each task or behaviour. Then subtract the goal number from your actual number and enter it into the “net” column.
Example: If you goal was to make 4 sales calls in the week and you actually did 2, then subtract the goal number from the actual: 2(actual)-4(goal)=-2. Your net is -2

6. Look at your results for the week. How did you go? Are you in the negative or positive numbers? What should you focus on next week?

Like I said, tracking has changed my life. It’s truly a powerful tool. Try it out, even just for a week and see what happens.