Mirza Yawar Baig – How to achieve your Life Goal #2
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The speaker is giving advice to the caller on how to measure their success in achieving their goals. They suggest using a notebook and pen to write goals for the day, analyzing goals and metrics every day, and setting metrics for each goal. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of setting metrics for performance appraisals and assessment every day to determine the best approach for the caller.
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We spoke about discipline, and
I hope that is clear.
We come to the next
step in,
realizing
and achieving our life goal, and that is
to
keep track of
our day.
And I'm gonna teach you a
very
quick and small and very simple but very
powerful
way through that,
and that is
to
keep a notebook.
Just get a plain notebook. Now, again, when
I say notebook, I don't mean any digital
thing. I've got nothing against digital things, but
there is,
psychologically
speaking,
there is a power in the written word,
which is written by hand.
So get a notebook and a pen
and write.
This notebook, what you should do
is
on the left side,
the left page,
that will be your page of
goals
for the day.
And on the right side
will be your page
of achievement of those goals.
So left side is the goal, and right
side is the achievement of those goals.
So now take this,
book,
and
every day,
before you go to bed,
write down
3 goals.
Never more than 3.
Once you're finished with 3, then you can
go and write more if you like,
but
at
one time, only 3.
Three goals
in order of priority.
Most important, next important, next important.
Every day.
So do not go to sleep until you
have written down 3 goals
in order of priority.
Once you have written those 3 goals,
then you go to sleep.
And
next day,
before you go to sleep,
you analyze those 3 goals.
And you say these are the 3 goals
that I wrote
yesterday
and today.
What of these did I achieve?
Did I achieve them? Did I not achieve
them? Did I partially achieve them?
What happened with my
goals?
This is very, very important
that you write your 3 goals every day.
And in the
night before you go to bed,
you analyze that and say,
how did I do with these goals?
What was the level of my
achievement?
So this is a very important exercise, which
I
strongly advocate
that
you do every day. As you can see,
it's a very simple thing. It's nothing complicated
about it.
Just a notebook, and you're writing this.
Now you might come to a situation where
one day you have written the walls down,
but when you look at your in the
evening,
you say, well, you know, I,
I didn't do too well. Doesn't matter. That's
a that's a wake up call.
Nothing to despair about. Wake up call.
Just make sure that
you don't do the same thing the next
day.
Make sure that you do the right thing
the following day. Right? So this is very
important to me.
Second thing is for each of those goal
that you write,
create metrics.
I think I mentioned this before.
The guy who
invented the 6 sigma
quality standard was a man called Michael Hadi,
m I k e l. That's how he
spelled his name. Michael
Harry.
He worked for Motorola,
and he created the 6 sigma,
quality standard.
On a side note, the 6 sigma quality
standard
operates on the principle
that you cannot measure
how well you did something,
but what you can measure
is the number of mistakes.
So
now imagine this. If I
tell you that I have a business,
I have an activity at which
I am 99%
successful,
99%
good.
And I asked you, what do you think?
I mean, do you think this is,
am I doing it well? Do you think
this is good? I'm sure you will say,
of course, 99% good is fantastic.
But give me let me explain that to
you with double 6 sigma.
99%
means
scale it,
99%
is 10,000 mistakes per million.
99%
is 10,000 mistakes
per million because it's one mistake per 100,
which is 10,000
mistakes
per million.
Six sigma
is 3.4
mistakes
per million.
Compare 99%
with 6 sigma, 99% is 10,000 mistakes per
million. Six sigma
is 3.4
mistakes
per million.
Now if you are flying
in a plane
at 30,000 feet elevations
and somebody tells you that
these engines in this plane
were built by such and such a company,
which,
operates at
99%
good, 99%
success.
What will you feel? 10,000 mistakes per million?
Which means for every 1,000,000 miles,
these engines can fill
10000 times.
Not a very comforting thought. Right?
So 3.4
mistakes per million compared to 10,000 mistakes per
million. This is the difference between 6 sigma
and
99%.
Now why am I saying that to you?
Because
this is the power of,
the power of,
metrics
of measurement.
Unless we measure,
we don't know what what is the
level of efficiencies
of ourselves and our actions
and our operation. So it's very critical
to measure.
So set metrics for each one of your
goals.
Whatever your goals were for the for the
the three goals for the day, metrics,
which will tell you how
you should be doing at those goals.
And, then when you do your assessment
in the night,
you are going to be,
looking at your goals in the context
of those metrics,
and you can then,
you know, see
what was the
performance
and how you did with this.
Money.
So this is very, very
important to do.
Goals,
metrics,
and assessment
every day.
If you do this,
you will find that
your time will never be wasted.
You will be occupied in,
in actual real goal achievement,
which you can measure and which you, you
know, is you feel nice about that. You
don't need any
external affirmation.
You have your own figures and numbers.
And especially
for
those in the corporate world and so forth,
this is an excellent way also
of
helping
your managers
do your own performance
appraisal and assessment, which is what they will
be.
Yes. It is.
So your managers will
to help them do your own performance assessment.
Because many times people complain. They say, oh,
you know, I did all this work. My
manager never acknowledges anything,
and, my marriage is against me and so
on. My submission is,
I don't know if your marriage is against
you or not, but it would be very
difficult for your manager
to,
ignore and not acknowledge
your work if you have a
daily,
assessment report of your work. So all you
need to do if you feel that your
manager is
ignoring you or, is is discounting your work
is show him your daily assessment book
and say, this is what I have recorded
for myself
every single day.
So try that, and,
it it works fantastically well. Remember one thing
about
whatever I say to you guys,
which is
that it's like, you know, in my childhood,
I used to d read Louis L'Amour,
books, western
Louis Lamour books that I write, not just
I don't know, but I loved reading them.
He's one of the one of my favorite
writers,
writes fantastically well.
He had a statement. He said, if I
tell you about a stream,
it is there, and the water is good
to drink.
Now I say the same thing about anything
that I teach.
If I'm teaching you, it means I have
tried it, and it works.
If I try something and it does not
work, I will never teach it.
So take my word for it. All you
need to do is to make some effort.
But what I'm teaching you is
100%
guaranteed
that this would work, and,
just try it. And, of course, keep your
comments coming, questions coming.
We'll try and give you as many answers
as we can,
and,
I I appreciate the questions, especially because it
helps me to think in areas which I,
may not have thought of,
you know, on my own. Thank you very
much.