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Your thoughts on measuring performance and progress

Since the Olympics started, I've found myself asking questions about what success looks like in my current work and how I can measure it.

I love the Olympics - flaws and all - because I am a former track athlete with teammates who have made it to the Games. I know what greatest looks like on the track, and have a sense of what it takes to be successful.

But as a startup founder, it's less clear. Every journey seems different and the lessons of the greats often don't feel applicable.

I'm wondering how you've developed your own definition of succcess and what you do to track your progress towards it. As I write in this blog I published today, I don't yet have it figured out for myself.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!

I love this reflection so much, because my definition of success has completely transformed over the last couple of years. What I used to measure: -How much am I earning? -How often am I traveling? (pre-COVID passion)-What are our MoM growth rates? (last startup)-How many people are impacted by my work?What I measure now:-Am I expanding? -Am I iterating?-Are my relationships (personal, work, customers) flourishing deeply? (vs. widely) -Am I experiencing this moment with more ease than tension?Taking a page out of Simone Biles book: Am I being true to myself here? After a whole life of β€œdo” based auto-pilot, the β€œbe” metrics have opened me up to a whole new perspective (and are more resilient to the ebbs and flows of life/business, to me).TopKnot looks like a great resource to connect women asking these questions! Thanks for the prompt to think it through.
Love the deeply versus widely framing for relationships. Thanks for sharing that!