Change How You Measure Progress
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This chart and explanation are from the following Strategic Coach book by Dan Sullivan:
The Gap And The Gain™: Building Your Progress Entirely on How Your Brain Works for You.
Changing the way that you measure your progress is the difference between feeling successful and happy or successful and unhappy. [1]
The Gap (left side): Your starting point is at the bottom, your ideal goal is at the top, and the goal you achieve is in the middle. This chart measures success by the distance between the achieved goal and the ideal goal. This distance is the Gap. Measuring progress this way only leads to unhappiness because you fell short of your goal. [2]
The Gain (right side): This chart measures success by the distance between where you started and the goal you achieved. This distance is the Gain. Measuring progress this way leads to happiness because you can look back at where you started and see how far you’ve come. [3] Taking this perspective helps leaders build confidence!
Footnotes
1Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy, The Gap and The Gain (USA: Hay House, Inc. 2021) xxii. https://gapandgainbook.com
2Sullivan and Hardy, The Gap and The Gain.
3Sullivan and Hardy, The Gap and The Gain.
