The Importance Of Tracking Your Progress – How To Succeed With A Victory Mindset
- Brainz Magazine
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 8, 2022
Written by: Marques Ogden, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
The idea behind a victory mindset is that we continually grow and improve throughout life, implying that our nature is flexible and ever-changing. To be a great entrepreneur, you must adopt this attitude to keep learning and growing, and keeping track of your improvement is a vital part of this approach. How can you determine whether you are growing?
Creating A Successful Feedback Tool
One of the most important approaches is to track your development. This requires identifying each goal and determining when it has been accomplished.
This achievement demonstrates your growth and ability to evolve through time while showing progress toward attaining your goals. It functions as a feedback mechanism. Each milestone gives further proof of your improvement, which in turn encourages you to continue pushing forward and establishing the next goal.
How do you chart your progress?
Create a Digital Success Tool
When coaching your team to have a victory mindset, advise them to create a folder of their successes.
Save screenshots or data for finished projects in specified locations. Include anything you consider a success. You may utilize this content to inspire yourself when necessary. It provides proof of your progress.
The way you set your goals can make a difference in your development.
Master SMART Goal Setting
To set a goal you'll achieve, it has to be SMART:
Specific: how you will know when the objective has been accomplished.
Measurable: Attach some targets so you can measure them.
Actionable: Break it down into steps you need to take to reach it.
Realistic: The goal should be attainable.
Timely: Set a deadline to accomplish it.
With precisely defined goals, you'll know for sure when you've achieved them, and they'll be more helpful in achieving your goals and tracking your progress.
Reframe Your View of Failure
The key to developing a victory mindset is to reframe your perspective on setbacks. Trials are not failures; they are learning opportunities. They do not inhibit your growth. Just like achievements, losses are necessary for growth.
Tracking Your Progress Is Key
Successful individuals record their progress regularly, and it develops into a habit. But if you want to embrace a victory mindset, you must incorporate it strategically into your organization. This requires allocating time for strategic planning and learning new skills and techniques. Set time on your schedule to establish objectives, evaluate progress, and recall how far you've come by consulting your digital success file.
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Marques Ogden, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Marques Ogden is a leader in leadership, marketing and sales, diversity and inclusion, mindset enhancement and overcoming adversity. After losing everything he owned in a bad business deal in 2013, he filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy, lost his home, his car, all of his money and ended up taking a job as a janitor for $8.25 an hour working in the graveyard shift. After his "spoiled milk" moment, Marques decided to take accountability and responsibility for his life and he decided to turn his pain into his purpose to become an inspirational keynote speaker. Since April 2016, he has spoken for over 35 fortune 500 companies and he is a coach, a consultant, a best selling author, a podcast co-host and more.
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