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Scale of Success Evaluation Form
On our journey to live a healthy and happy life, the year 2020 was a speedbump along our path. It caused us to slow down and assess our lives and proceed with caution. After reflecting on what was going right for us and what wasn’t working, we start 2021 with a clearer understanding of what we should continue fighting for and what we need to work on. A new year always holds the promise of creating a better self. It is the perfect time to utilize increased motivation to make sure we set ourselves up for long term success that will outlast the new year’s resolution feeling.
Setting SMART goals will start you out right and keeping track of your successes will give you the motivation to keep trying even if your successes are intangible.
SMART Goals are:
Sustainable
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time-Relevant
Some goals have successes you can see.
Tangible Measurements of Success:
- A scale weight (is the scale going up or down)
- Waist circumference (are our measurements decreasing)
- Miles Walked (have your daily steps increased?)
- Events trained for… (have you accomplished races)
- Injuries healed or pain omitted (are you finally out of pain?)
Emotional successes can’t be seen but are just as important.
Intangible Measurements of Success:
- Increased mood
- Decreased anxiety
- Decreased actions of perfectionism (if you ever get frustrated with black and white thinking… are you improving with some “good enough” thoughts
- Better energy
- Increased Contentment or focus
With physical measures of success, we can grasp and understand when to soak in our successes. But what should we do about the intangible ones? How should we measure the successes that lack visual presence? We need some tool
