Mirza Yawar Baig – How to achieve your Life Goal – 2
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The importance of keeping a notebook and creating metrics for achieving life goals is emphasized. Personal development is also emphasized, with goal focus being on individual goals and priority for progress. Strategic assessments and improvement efforts are also emphasized, with daily assessments and priority for managers are suggested. The speaker provides information on a person named Louis L'Amour who claims to have 100% success in learning to use a stream and improve performance, but emphasizes the importance of daily assessments and progress monitoring.
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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 going to teach you a very
quick and small and very simple, but very
powerful way to do 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.
And this notebook, what you should do is,
on the left side, the left page, that
will be a page of goals for the
day.
And on the right side will be a
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 three
goals, never more than three.
Once you finish with three, then you can
go and write more if you like, but
at one time, only three.
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 three goals in order of
priority.
Once you have written those three goals, then
you go to sleep.
And next day, before you go to sleep,
you analyze those three goals.
And you say, these are the three 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 three 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.
And as you can see, it's a very
simple thing.
There'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 goals down,
but when you look at the evening, you
say, well, you know, I didn't do too
well.
Doesn't matter.
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.
So this is very important to do.
Second thing is, for each of those goals
that you write, create metrics.
I think I mentioned this before.
The guy who invented the Six Sigma quality
standard was a man called Michael Harry.
M-I-K-E-L, that's how he
spelled his name.
He worked for Motorola, and he created the
Six Sigma quality standard.
On a side note, the Six 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 ask you, what do you think?
Do you think I'm doing it well?
Do you think this is good?
I'm sure you'll say, yes, of course.
99% good is fantastic.
But let me explain that to you in
terms of Six 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 hundred, which is
10,000 mistakes per million.
Six Sigma is 3.4 mistakes per million.
Compare 99% with Six 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 elevation, and somebody tells
you that these engines of 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 million miles, these engines can fail 10
,000 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 Six Sigma and
99%.
Now, why am I saying that to you?
Because this is the power of metrics, of
measurement.
Unless we measure, we don't know what is
the level of efficiency of ourselves and our
actions and our operations.
So, it's very critical to measure.
So, set metrics for each one of your
goals.
Whatever your goals were for 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 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, Inshallah, you will find
that your time will never be wasted.
You will be occupied in actual real goal
achievement, which you can measure and 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 learning how you.
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 manager is against me and so
on.
My submission is, I don't know if your
manager 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 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 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 read
Louis L'Amour books, western Louis L'Amour
books.
Not just Louis L'Amour, I loved reading
them.
He's one of my favourite 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 inshallah that this will 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 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.